Thank you so much, I can tell you are a writer because you have a way with words that just cheers me up lmao. I will keep going because I love writing and I love this community. I just need to get a bit of motivation and start writing again. 
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Ha, Iām currently asking myself why on Earth Iām making creative decisions that are absolutely going to limit my audience, when thereās no practical reason for that.
But yeah.
My main gripe today, by the way: I was reading some advice on how to use fictional words in a story, and there was advice on what to avoid so that they look believable, pronounceable, and not-ridiculousā¦ which, good enough, until you realize the things that advice told to not do are all real things, in real languages, spoken by real people. And instead of saying something like āEnglish-speakers may find this ridiculousā, itās said as āthis is ridiculous and unbelievableā. Iāve never been so offended by writing advice in my life.
So my main takeaway from that ended up being āyeah? Deal with itā.
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@aventurine Wanna know a little embarrassing secret? Used to be I cried over my WiP lol. I still ocasionally do. In the end Iām still here, and Iām sure youāll get through this as well.
Also sorry if I came off as too harsh in my post, I tend to be hard on myself so Iām not very good at emotional support of others either lol
Take care of yourself first and foremost, and good writing 
now definitely disappers under the table
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Oh no you didnāt, donāt worry! Iām not very good at telling tone through text because of my autism, but I could tell that your reply was heartfelt <3
Thank you so much for sharing, Iām sure it must be hard being so vulnerable in here but I appreciate it. I will also share something similar: I used to cry about my writingā¦ 
I used to compare myself to native English speakers and say āwow ill never be like thatā but also compare myself to writers in my native language and be like āwow I write so much in English that Iām forgetting my own languageā
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You should write something in your own language, just for yourself, as a treat!
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If you write what you like, an audience will find you. It may be smaller than other audiences, but it will be just as passionate if you stick to what you like and respect your audience. For example, most of my ideas feature a female MC and male ROs. I acknowledge that people wonāt like that, and wouldnāt read it. But there are people whoāll be ok with it, and I want to make a game theyāll love.
But if anyone wants to grow their audience quicker, my advice is to make sure the main post has plenty of information. Whatās the story about? Who are the ROs? What am I getting myself into?
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Sneaking in to sit at the back of the boisterous classā¦ Yuck, thereās chewing gum under the desk!
Iāve read through these support threads so many times. I think it is about time I made a post, though I lack great wisdom and sometimes suffer from excessive verbosity 
I think I should set tentative monthly goals like you all do. Iām unsure if reaching a certain word count is always a good goal. My written words often pile up whether I want them to or not (though often it is because I am not great at coding).
With this in mind, I often set myself ādestinationā targets, like I have seen others do, as in planning to finish certain scenes. So, this month I want to finish an encounter scene, where an important character, fundamental to the ācrawler path,ā is introduced.
This is goal 1!
Goal 2, perhaps set up the code for the scene following that.
Goal 3, extend one, or both, of the āescape crawlerā paths.
If I can do goal 1, I will consider it a success!
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Iām personally suffering from a lack of verbosity right now, so hereās hoping some of that would rub off on me! 
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Haha! Well, I moderate myself by having an equal amount of introverted displays of hiding in corners or chewing.
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Just read your bits about fictional words!
Iāve had to do a bit of jiggery-pokery (real word) with words for my current steampunk setting. It is either easy or ridiculous in steampunk -YMMV. Everything is like a āfidget spinnerā but compounded. I like āblustercrankā but have āmomentum coilsā and steamsteeds (motorbikes). Though Iāve also stumbled on a word used for those of goblin and dwarf parentage, āyuckbeard.ā This is only said by goblin bullies to make those poor yuckbeards cry.
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I mean, it is obviously one thing to make up fictional words for a language that is depicted as English (in which case I agree, the words need to look like they could fit the English language) but why would other languages have to follow English rules?
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I agree, they wouldnāt. The advice sounds like an overgeneralisation.
We are free to make up our own rules and decide if they fit with the setting of our creation, English-speaking or not. There is no āhas to.ā We can make an inhuman-sounding language a viable thing if readers buy its existence in the world we are creating.
I think Jabberwocky is a good example of this. I wonder how it would play out if we replaced all the English words with their equivalent, in another language, while keeping all the nonsense words the same. Granted, weād have to switch around the grammar and this assumes we are using a version of the Latin alphabetā¦ But regardless of the headache, I wonder.
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I would scratch my head if there was suddenly a āhwrllldgrzzzktĒÆįøµā casually used as a standard word in the middle of otherwise-English language, but yeah, you have a point.
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The previous promo to this year Halloween jam has just started. Hope people liked. Dunno If I am doing a good job with the jams. I am not the most suited person to do them.
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Youāre the person doing them. That already makes you more suited than the hypothetical people who arenāt.
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But seriously. How am I supposed to write horror out of Good Vibes? 
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Iām already thinking of angry Santaās Elves again. Also the Earth in the poster looks terrifying.
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The real Poster of the jam would make it clear lol.
But if you look closely at this version you will see something weird on it. Thatās only I can say as hint.
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Haha!!!
Yes, this would be a mouthful for any species in the known and unknown universe (probably).
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Or it could be from a language that simply doesnāt write down vowels.
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Actually, lately I started to believe AI will turn out to be a massive plagiarism. It scans immense numbers of resources and provides a mesh of result making sense.
As I checked out in one of the recent RPG games (Baldurās Gate III - Conversation scripts + voice Baldur's Gate 3 actors tear into AI voice cloning: 'That is stealing not just my job but my identity' | PC Gamer ) so much controversy is around.
So in context maybe for alternative paths it will be an idea generator - but writing is sort of enable readers to enter the current state of mind of the authors for readers.
What an astonishing thing a book is. Itās a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and youāre inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of yearsā¦.Books break the shackles of time.
Carl Sagan
Reading is time travel. ā For the Love of Science
So in my opinion AI kills this spell I quoted above and itās a master puzzle maker using the pieces and depicts human wrote throughout the centuries for creating something looked genie, but not.
(Our sub-conscience will realize that and we probably will see or feel that itās fake (AI) and eventually itāll repel.)
But itās still sort of new so, uncharted waters.
Mid month log: Hectic, had some urgency that took my time and focus away for a quiet while. Stabilized that & slowly focusing on - wrote a bit and took notes.
Issue is I think I donāt like a specific path right now, so probably write minimum there and go on to the parts I like.
I leave comment tag to revisit that piece again.
My solution to restrain writing urge for multiple projects: taking notes on notepads, physically. And thinking about the algorithms and stuff. Seeing the huge work my mind accepts to keep on working with the current project 
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Phrasing question, if what you want to convey is āfrom my point of view, we are still friends, even if you disagreeā, is it āIām still your friendā or āyouāre still my friendā?
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