I’ve read most of your stories over at Narrative Ark and wanted to remark that The Gentle Romance did feel more concrete than usual, which was nice. Given how much effort it took for you however, I suppose I shouldn’t expect future stories at Narrative Ark to be similarly concrete?
Ah, glad to hear the effort was noticeable. I do think that as I get more practice at being descriptive, concreteness will become easier for me (my brain just doesn’t work that way by default). And anyone reading this comment is welcome to leave me feedback about places in my stories where I should have been more concrete.
But I’m also pivoting away from stories in general right now, there’s too much other stuff I want to spend time on. I have half a dozen other stories for which I’ve already finished first drafts, so I’ll probably gradually release those in a low-effort way (i.e. without going through as much trouble to polish them). And then after that I expect I’ll only write the stories which feel easiest/most exciting to me, which tend to be the most abstract ones. So yeah, this is probably an outlier.
I’ve read most of your stories over at Narrative Ark and wanted to remark that The Gentle Romance did feel more concrete than usual, which was nice. Given how much effort it took for you however, I suppose I shouldn’t expect future stories at Narrative Ark to be similarly concrete?
Ah, glad to hear the effort was noticeable. I do think that as I get more practice at being descriptive, concreteness will become easier for me (my brain just doesn’t work that way by default). And anyone reading this comment is welcome to leave me feedback about places in my stories where I should have been more concrete.
But I’m also pivoting away from stories in general right now, there’s too much other stuff I want to spend time on. I have half a dozen other stories for which I’ve already finished first drafts, so I’ll probably gradually release those in a low-effort way (i.e. without going through as much trouble to polish them). And then after that I expect I’ll only write the stories which feel easiest/most exciting to me, which tend to be the most abstract ones. So yeah, this is probably an outlier.