>>5882365Thanks Neo-ReviewAnon! This is my first non-fanfic quest (and also my first quest I've actually enjoyed writing all the way through! At least so far...) so I appreciate all the positive feedback from you and DemBones. Now time for the breakdown commentary about the breakdown commentary.
>I have a soft spot for drawquestsSo do I! Of course good writing can carry anything in my opinion regardless of what its outer appearence is, but, like you've said yourself, it's way easier for me to get attached to a story when I get a picture alongside every update, plus having original visuals for characters and environments is always good.
>I saw you mentioned frustration with the writing at timesIndeed, though it's less about story and characters, and more about words. I have huge vocabulary issues! Classic ESL problem. I know the obvious solution is "just look up synonyms dumbass!", but that goes completely against my update writing system, which is "write the post, look over it once or twice for typos and lore fuckups and post it before you overthink it too much". If I start Googling every time I use the word "right" or "quickly" or "seems like" 50 times in the span of 5 updates I'm gonna start hating the whole process!
>the dialogue being crowded at timesNoted! Already decided to do
>[Name] "Dialogue"for my next quest, though I might actually have the opportunity to use it in this one if the story goes mostly according to plan (it has already deviated 50 times from it, but at least the original planned out lore is still intact...)
Overall I'm pretty happy with the positive reception and also worried people will start disliking it once Future Events occur and more of the story reveals itself. Whatever happens though I'll just keep on writing, not gonna flake out of this one, I put way too much thought into lore stuff for this, not gonna let it die out!
>>5882241>My problem isIf it's any consolation to you, I only started my quest because I was half-drunk at 4 in the morning thinking about a story I'd been cooking in my brain for a while, and then suddenly I just went "fuck it, /qst/ time!", wrote the OP and uploaded it before my brain could process what I had done. And, besides some art inconsistencies during those first few posts, I'm really glad I did that! Sometimes the first step is the hardest. Though yeah... sometimes anons think up an idea and make an OP before thinking about anything else and then the whole thing just crumbles in two dozen posts.
Now, I'm not a professional storyteller in any capacity, but I think having a clear goal and some cool ideas you REALLY wanna show to people is a great way to motivate yourself to go further, regardless of the quality of your writing. ...this only really applies to story quests though. Gameplay-focused quest writers, I don't know how you do it, that shit would kill me!
