I'm not a very talented writer.
Hell, I'm hardly artistically inclined. I'm not gifted at drawing. I've never felt a thrill from playing an instrument. I've never been able to dance until my limbs became weary. My handwriting is straight and small, my hand focused more on conserving space and being legible than being pretty or elegant. My cursive is atrocious, I promise you, and my signature is literally a bit of scribbling and some quick little loopy things. And a dot for the 'i' in my first name.
I am, however, a coder. I learned HTML and CSS+ within a month, and as perfectionist as I am, everything I've made in that class has been either symmetrical or simply designed and "aesthetically pleasing". Not pretty or beautiful or inspiring or passionate, but.... Aesthetically pleasing.
I feel like I've accidentally started off Jei like that because of my writing. He's... Cardboard. He's a simple, pleasing code, interactive up to a point. A wild Myrian that has a penchant for eating people and stabbing things with an interesting looking dagger. A savage with a passion for war and the wild and the unknown.
One would think that he'd be fun to thread with, that people with flock to clash and encounter this (hopefully) unique adventurer. But not only do I fail to step out of my own mind and into that of a crazed man-eater, I fail to even make my failure look good. Thus far, my threads have been essay-like.
I don't know when and how to describe something to beautiful detail. To the sweet spot where the reader has just enough feel and begin to understand this character in earnest, but not so much that I would be commanding and telling the reader what to see. If that makes sense. I really don't know, but I do know that I am too symmetrical, plain, and static.
I'm not a very talented writer.
Hell, I'm hardly artistically inclined. I'm not gifted at drawing. I've never felt a thrill from playing an instrument. I've never been able to dance until my limbs became weary. My handwriting is straight and small, my hand focused more on conserving space and being legible than being pretty or elegant. My cursive is atrocious, I promise you, and my signature is literally a bit of scribbling and some quick little loopy things. And a dot for the 'i' in my first name.
I am, however, a coder. I learned HTML and CSS+ within a month, and as perfectionist as I am, everything I've made in that class has been either symmetrical or simply designed and "aesthetically pleasing". Not pretty or beautiful or inspiring or passionate, but.... Aesthetically pleasing.
I feel like I've accidentally started off Jei like that because of my writing. He's... Cardboard. He's a simple, pleasing code, interactive up to a point. A wild Myrian that has a penchant for eating people and stabbing things with an interesting looking dagger. A savage with a passion for war and the wild and the unknown.
One would think that he'd be fun to thread with, that people with flock to clash and encounter this (hopefully) unique adventurer. But not only do I fail to step out of my own mind and into that of a crazed man-eater, I fail to even make my failure look good. Thus far, my threads have been essay-like.
I don't know when and how to describe something to beautiful detail. To the sweet spot where the reader has just enough feel and begin to understand this character in earnest, but not so much that I would be commanding and telling the reader what to see. If that makes sense. I really don't know, but I do know that I am too symmetrical, plain, and static.
I'm not a very talented writer.
