Author in creativity crisis Options

[balduran]

Shame on me! I am a writer, who cannot create a simple romantic dialogue. I wish I could use the poor excuse that I have lost my inspiration, but it would be a badly-sewn lie. I have all these ideas about what should happen with Azure, when it should happen, but when it comes to putting it together and creating the dialogue entries, my mind goes completely blank.

This post has been edited by balduran: Sep 6 2005, 12:27 PM

[kulyok]

I agree that .d files are much, much harder to proofread than 'normal text format', especially than Extremist's 'trees and markers' structure - while Extremist's structure makes it as easy to read as a Harry Potter novel, .d format makes my eyes bleed. So, yes, as a proofreader, I scream: "Have mercy on me, and write normally!"

However, I've written (most part of) two romances now, one in .d and one in 'normal text format', and I agree that writing in .d is both faster, easier and more inspiring than writing in 'normal text format' - you know that you will not have to face a difficult task of transforming your text file into a .d file later. I'm flat out against .tra for now, so I do not take .tra into account.

It's highly individual, though - so I think that it's best to try both styles first, and then decide which one you want.