This news being? I hit a writing stride for the first time ever.
You see, a lot of the reason why SWRR keeps stalling and not being worked on is completely to do with the fact that I was having a lot of trouble with the writing.
The first draft was crap, some may tell you differently, but it wasn't natural enough and the two girls had zero personality.
I went back, developed the two of them a lot more and made a few stylistic changes.
I tried to write then again but couldn't do it, so I put SWRR aside and focused on trying to get Rock Robin done, which I did do a lot of. I drew a tonshit of chibis, finished off Emma and got about halfway through Claudette (Okay I'm very slow, but school really gave me a lot of setbacks).
And then I decided to Rapunzel.
Now Rapunzel had been an idea of mine since I first started SWRR. I knew I wanted to use this world I created for SWRR to encompass a variety of fairy tales. So while working on it I threw out ideas for about 3 other fairytales and how I could go about doing them. Rapunzel was one of those ideas, but that one had to wait for NaNoRenO to come around.
So when it did I put everything else aside and pounced on the opportunity and boy was it the greatest learning opportunity I've ever had.
Of course afterwards I was VERY put out from game making for a long time (it didn't help that I had stupidly joined a group at my school doing the Games4Girls contest as the only gamer in the group I knew the game sucked, but I did try my hardest).
So at this point I hadn't even looked at SWRR in months, let alone attempted to write it.
And then yesterday it just hit me, so I started and the writing style lessons I had learned doing Rapunzel immediately put themselves to use and it was so easy where it had been so hard before.
The problem with SWRR is that I kept pushing this game to use styles that were not my natural styles. I contrived a drawing style (I'm actually planning to redo both girls' sprites to something looser) and I contrived a writing style. The rest was natural to me (especially the GUI and the way I had decided to structure it), but writing and art are two corners of the very important VN triangle.
Now that I have gotten them figured out, however, I expect things to really start to fall into place.
I don't know if I'll finish all the art by the time I have to leave for my study abroad in Japan, but I can tell you that the writing will be done.
Because I am 4/5 done with it. All of Rose Red's side of the writing has been completed and I only need to write the boy events and the first chapter three event of Snow White and it will be done.
I'm pretty damn ecstatic right now.
Wish me luck <3
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