Haste Makes Waste

I've been working on a novel for over a year now, and it would be a miracle if I finished before the end of this year...


One thing I overlooked was my characters.





An example of what the slums might look like from Green Success (Above Image)



Often the writer focuses on the event and they forget about the character, the personality and their motives, confusing them as options...


I believe they are necessary for a story to be engulfing. The best example I could possible come up with would be the anime, School Rumble... It has the perfect balance of Event and Character building, that it feels like I seriously am hanging out with these characters.


<--- Tenam Skamato: Besides Harima, Tenma is an essential character, without her, Harima wouldn't have motivation to write his manga, and thus there would be no plot...

Harima is writing a manga for Tenma, this story line is much more interesting than Harima writing a manga because he wants fame.

However you chose to write, don't forget you characters are just as important as the actual plot. Halo just wouldn't be Halo without Master Chief...

Without good characters, the reader has no reason to care for the story, if the reader is not interested, the story is no good....

Take your time, and remember, nothing is set in stone... Haste makes Waste...

Inspirations

[Images provided and created by who else?]

The most important thing to a story writer is the inspiration....

Whether you're inspired by creation or imaginary things, it's all good!

Take a look at this picture, now what do you see, are you seeing what I'm seeing?

Right now as I gaze at this photo, the first thing that came to mind was how a village of tiny people could be living among the jungle of leaves. (Sound pretty lame right?)

And that's the problem, too many people think of an idea, (it might be great) But often they discourage themselves thinking their ideas are stupid. It might be tough to tackle, but you must be able to defeat your self discouragement, look it straight in the face and slap it!


Now what do you see? Are you imagining how high awesome you can snowboard from tree top to tree top? Or were you thinking about the lake on the other side of the hill? Or were you imagining the moon just inches away from the tree tops as people climb and grab hold of the moon?

Thinking outside the box is another tough on to handle. Just remember,

This is not art, it is an accident! I shook the camera and this is what popped up... Don't expect your accidents to accidentally be good.... because that would be modern abstract art, and what does everybody know about abstract art? (Crapola!)

Don't be afraid to pinch at someone else's plate! They won't notice!






This is Zelda, I like to pick... well pick isn't the word I like to use!

I like to harvest new ideas off the existing ones form Zelda Games. The more I play Zelda, the bigger the tumor of an idea becomes, and soon it becomes big enough to break off. And that's where a new idea comes from...

It's not Stealing, it's "Borrowing"! And consciously or not, everybody does it!

These are my math Notes, and guess what? I actually had fun!

Yes, I had fun during math class, surprised? I was!

Once again, my love for homes, houses, mansions and villages is reflected in my drawings. And that's also where I got the idea for the slums from Green Success:

The Slums is a town where every building is made of cardboard and the residents are dirt poor...

the idea first hatched while I was playing Halo 3 Forge, after stacking random boxes and crates, it started looking like a maze, with tall buildings... and I thought, how cool would this be if it were real... and then the idea was formed! :)


And finally, sometimes you need to sit down and hand draw something that's been on your mind for a while...

The week I drew this picture, I had seen bright lights in the sky near my house, all on the radio they were talking about UFO's and so I was thinking about it for a while, then i decided what it would be like if some girl were taken away by the aliens every night....

but not in the horrific way most would imagine, but in a calm, happy, peaceful way...

So that's where this drawing came about...

but enough about me, I hope this blog, a little different from past blogs, really gives you an idea of what I'm trying to tell you!

Also when you're not driving, look out the window and imagine a skateboarder skating on all the cars and objects as they pass bye.... It's actually quite fun!

- Andrew Taraba

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Satisfactory Level

No, I don't like it...

In deed, I don't...

And if I'm not happy with it... even if others are... I wouldn't want to keep it....

I've been very busy...

Re-writing Green Success.... I have had many versions of this story written, starting from my Freshman year in Highschool, I just did one draft all the way through and now as I begin to judge my own work and criticize it, I realize all I had created was a mere skeleton..,.

as I re-wrote it, I became less satisfied with it... especially when comparing it to anime series... as my goal was to be as good as any anime series...

Sadly the only chapters I was happy with, was the first and second...

I am re-writing every chapter past that, keeping the same plot, but re-telling the story...

There;s no telling when I'll finish, but I hope I don't quit!

as of now, I've been posting, re-posting and deleting my postings of Green Success online, because of my satisfactory rate... and while I'm sure, not much are affected by it, I do want to point out that I am indeed affected by this, and I hate writing crappy stories as much as I hate reading them...