oates softbody

oates softbody

@himawari.fun

visual novel author half-formed in the land of adults. curator of denpa & internet obscura. mother of 2 beautiful girls.

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my life is a lot calmer now which is what i wanted but i fear i overcorrected and now i don't know how to find friendship again

cpu passed me a sketch of her process a few days ago. its very image-first, text after. all the elements had harmony. a work that resonates across multiple disciplines. its very different from what i do today. what i took away from that is that there are many ways to explore a feeling

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i really admire people who can do everything themselves. im not nearly as disciplined or have spent my time in the right ways to acquire the right skills for what i want to output. its hard work at the end of the day that makes the difference.

there are things i can do entirely by myself but they are not in the scope of games. i spent my life hunched over the keyboard. and im older now. and there is this sense that time is running out

cpu passed me a sketch of her process a few days ago. its very image-first, text after. all the elements had harmony. a work that resonates across multiple disciplines. its very different from what i do today. what i took away from that is that there are many ways to explore a feeling

writing is my talent - it is the medium through which other adjacent disciplines are tied together. the other aspects are not talents, but skills. they are sometimes hard going. so, i split the work into different areas where the team can do the things i'm not as native in. bigger, but fragmented

keep hacking down on my prose in editing, since sprites somewhat obviate describing the environment. and then it becomes this half-picture of what i intended

so it's a format problem - i draft a novel for what should be script. i need to explore what i'm feeling. it's just slow. sometimes you just wanna cut the middle man