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Dec. 9th, 2013 05:57 amMom fell and bruised herself two nights ago. I was already asleep by that time, so I didn't see any of the details, but I woke straight up and screamed "OH MY GOD!!!" upon hearing it, thinking she had also broken some glasses around her. (She didn't.) Dad went over to help her; I remained in my room but did ask if she was okay.
Dad and I needed to be there to help Mom sit or get up out of bed yesterday. Even then, she hasn't been able to do much of anything.
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During our time in Virginia, Grandma Barbara asked me at one point about my writing hobby. I told her about Starbound, and sent her an email hyperlinking to each chapter I have up so far, along with each episode of Lucky Star itself.
Yesterday, I took a turn to speak to her while she called us for this week. She told me that, while she doesn't remember where she left off, the fic itself seems more like a script than a novel. Even though the format is the same as with a novel, the writing is generally more simplistic, in that I don't describe the surroundings and stuff like that.
Well, yeah. To describe everything about where a scene takes place would be the written equivalent to having a shot of the area as a whole, followed by a few more of stuff going on or specific parts of the area, before focusing on the focal characters for that scene. Some works also begin with a monologue, in which case, if it's in a written format, you don't describe anything that would be shown in a visual format while whoever speaks is doing so.
For this fic, I was aiming to start off exactly like Earthbound, which does start off with some hovering shots over Onett, but also fades to black between each in order to display a line. In this case, I felt that a few ellipses between each opening line would've captured the same kind of feeling best despite being a different format.
http://youtu.be/rwO4MRr7dtQ?t=1m41s
That, of course, is just speaking for the first scene, but yeah, I don't feel that it's necessary to give a description of ordinary places such as houses or restaurants that the characters are already familiar with. More unusual places might call for details such as "It was cool and stark inside."
If you'd like a sample, though, here's how I'd write the very first scene of Lucky Star. Nothing particularly epic given that show's genre, but it is the source material.
( Read more... )
(If anyone would like me to try writing the beginning or any other scene of a different anime, one that would actually interest me, just leave a comment and I'll try. Of course, this should serve as enough of an example, but maybe not.)
Dad and I needed to be there to help Mom sit or get up out of bed yesterday. Even then, she hasn't been able to do much of anything.
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During our time in Virginia, Grandma Barbara asked me at one point about my writing hobby. I told her about Starbound, and sent her an email hyperlinking to each chapter I have up so far, along with each episode of Lucky Star itself.
Yesterday, I took a turn to speak to her while she called us for this week. She told me that, while she doesn't remember where she left off, the fic itself seems more like a script than a novel. Even though the format is the same as with a novel, the writing is generally more simplistic, in that I don't describe the surroundings and stuff like that.
Well, yeah. To describe everything about where a scene takes place would be the written equivalent to having a shot of the area as a whole, followed by a few more of stuff going on or specific parts of the area, before focusing on the focal characters for that scene. Some works also begin with a monologue, in which case, if it's in a written format, you don't describe anything that would be shown in a visual format while whoever speaks is doing so.
For this fic, I was aiming to start off exactly like Earthbound, which does start off with some hovering shots over Onett, but also fades to black between each in order to display a line. In this case, I felt that a few ellipses between each opening line would've captured the same kind of feeling best despite being a different format.
http://youtu.be/rwO4MRr7dtQ?t=1m41s
That, of course, is just speaking for the first scene, but yeah, I don't feel that it's necessary to give a description of ordinary places such as houses or restaurants that the characters are already familiar with. More unusual places might call for details such as "It was cool and stark inside."
If you'd like a sample, though, here's how I'd write the very first scene of Lucky Star. Nothing particularly epic given that show's genre, but it is the source material.
( Read more... )
(If anyone would like me to try writing the beginning or any other scene of a different anime, one that would actually interest me, just leave a comment and I'll try. Of course, this should serve as enough of an example, but maybe not.)