Visual Storytelling and Experimentation in Prose
Okay so...don't do blogs often like I've said lol BUT...
A couple thoughts about some stuff in my fics:
I've been thinking about experimenting quite a bit more in some of the stuff I'm writing to challenge myself as a writer (God knows I don't do that enough already lmao). Two of the things I was thinking about were visual storytelling and doing weird things with my prose, which I guess I can try and explain but I'm at explaining things.
Visual Storytelling
This one's easy and doesn't serve much benefit except it looks really good IMO. If you've read Sunrise Drive or Kiss Land that's what I'm talking about - adding images/visuals to accompany parts of the story where appropriate. I'm not sure if it's something I'm gonna do loads of but one of the big advantages of a platform like AFF is the ability to do stuff like and not have it look terrible like in print books lol. I kinda liked the idea of the post-it note in Sunrise Drive (you'll know what I mean if you've read it)
Experimenting in Prose
This is also pretty straightforward. Just me doing weird things with my writing lol. I think the big one I've already used is dialogue without quotation marks or attribution tags, which I've actually got really good feedback for (I used it in Often and Sunrise Drive now and probs some more in the future) and I really enjoy the sort of atmosphere it creates - kind of dreamy/hazy, and a little surreal at times. I'm also thinking about doing some cool things with text spacing/layout (like indicating two characters arguing/talking over each other at the same time by putting the text at separate sides of the screen, if that makes sense.) Kinda like this:
Blah Blah!
Blah!
Blah blah blah blah
Blah blah blah!
Although I know this looks a little silly and idk how to feel about it lol.
Anyway lemme know if y'all have any opinions on this sort of stuff since I don't wanna be writing the same stuff again and again :)
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