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When I watch a story play out on anime and manga, I have absolutely no clue in hell. I don't think twice about the things that happen and just follow the flow of it all thinking that's just the way it is so that's what happened. Which lead to missing out on enjoying deeper analysis of the stories and understanding them in their full potential. Instead I was left with just shallow impressions: there was no real reason, insight, or anything and I just liked them because I felt I do.
From the perspective of the audience, this may be perfectly fine because there are vastly different ways to enjoy a story. But from the writer's perspective, such a thought process is a privilege that is unforgivable. A writer must provide the audience various ways to enjoy their story, as writing in a way only enjoyable to themselves is only as good as masturbation.
Being such an audience that I am and being in a position of a writer, it's a real struggle because stories that I create turn out shallow and poor. So in hopes of referencing I'm curious about what aspects to a story you find is most critical in your enjoyment?
About Fan Art
Being heavily involved in the fan art genre, there's a few words I have to say about it. Fan art is pretty straight forward to understand it's purpose, but I think there is more depth to it than a mere cheap drawing of a character from a certain IP. From what I've seen 'til now, there are mainly two motives that drive an artist to create fan art: for self expression or for its reward.
Creating fan art for self expression is when the artist experienced one or multiple moments in an IP that made them feel a strong connection/attachment to said IP, and have the urge to translate that experience in their art. When an artist have a strong passion
I'm still alive
I've been quite busy from the convention season and now I've been getting commissions left and right. So as good as that is; it's not looking up for my personal works. Plus I am absolutely terrible at keeping up with social media. Sorry friends, any promises are likely to be broken knowing myself but I do have good things in the works.
Just something on my mind lately
I think there are subtle hints to artworks as to what the artist focused on and what their mindset was. Some focus on technical skill, marketability, study, etc. and all of them can be striking, but those that show honest love for the subject matter tends to be continuously striking. Something that my own work could improve on but something that I notice the absence in many many artworks these days. It's not something that's wrong but something that's quickly losing meaning and purpose. I have to wonder if something like that can still be considered art?
Humor in writing
I have heard humor is a difficult aspect in writing to critique; at least in the comic/manga medium, but from the writer's perspective it's a whole other world of difficult. Humor I find is such a biased aspect more than any other aspects in writing. But it's not really surprising that it is though because so many things could influence what is funny, like context, culture, emotion, belief... actually now that I think about it, anything can influence what is funny.
I heard also that humor can be critiqued based on how much it contributes to the plot, and if it doesn't contribute to the plot it could be considered poor writing; a cheap way to
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An interesting character development is what makes me feel a story is great, even when I don't like the visual style or the main topic of the story. Clever narrative excuses to show the characters' background stories, that seem to evolve in a way that's not too predictable and add a lot of meaning to the events in the present, helps a lot. The development of the particular world of the story is important too, but it can be dull or don't help at all if the characters are not experiencing things that enhance their personalities and motives to be part of the story.