It's been a week, did anyone else write something? I think a weekly or biweekly check in might help to keep people active. I'm the flakiest fucker there is so it's easy for me to drift and leave things unfinished, but if I feel like I'm held accountable I'll try.
>>974Thank you so much for taking time to look! I was hoping it might have that effect, though the further I went the more I found I had to focus on feelings and relationships over trying to explain the setting. Probably makes it sound much more interesting than it is!
>10I really love writing mute monsterboys who communicate in other ways, but you're right, even the mundane form of it where someone doesn't know the other's language and learns doesn't really get used to its full potential. I guess it's because you need a bilingual author to commit to it properly, and most BL has to keep it short and skip ahead. The process is what's interesting though, letting characters communicate and try to make sense of each other. And with a character like this, there's some bitterness and inferiority complex born from watching another person succeed.
>Re: 1 sentence challenge.I finished all the prompts yesterday and updated the page, even redid a few that had female side characters. It's an interesting activity, I don't think I would have focused on some of those areas if I was just writing freely. The deeper you get the harder it is to write though. You find yourself repeating formats, often a "this but that" so to stretch it into holding two statements. The urge is to set something down and then react to it. Every time I approached a prompt I imagined a location and atmosphere and actions, but you really can't fit all of that in one sentence. You have to rearrange the wording to sneak in little descriptors where you can and pray it hints what you were picturing. It feels like cheating to write something short and simple, but those are probably the better attempts because they're clean and don't get overambitious. I wanted to tell the reader exactly what the characters look like through touch and actions but even those have to be limited to convey the prompt. I shouldn't have just namedropped the prompts honestly but it made arranging things fun.
Most of these would work better as two or three sentences, the punctuation is almost a joke. A friend I spoke to about it said I should try doing 2-3 sentence stories next because it'd give me more joy. I'm sure I'd end up trying to say too much still! I suppose I can open a document and start doing that with another prompt list, just to keep myself writing. I want to attempt a short fic though, writing a full narrative to its conclusion has always been my weakness.