sagesoren, posts by tag: writing - LiveJournal

Got a little further in Xenoblade and totally forgot what I wanted to say about it. Oh well, I'll stick it in the next post. :V

I recently found the company that localized the more recent Tales Of games (8-4 Ltd.), and the totally amazing (smaller) company that was responsible for other shining beacons of localization, such as FFXII. It's called Kajiya Productions. Aaah, I'm so excited about all these company pages! Oh, and Aksys Games (another localiz...er?) has an online shop, which, unsurprisingly, has really awesome item descriptions. They also sell shirts with their logo and ohmygodIwant. Then when people ask me what Aksys Games is, I can tell them about localization! (Honestly, that's probably a conversation no one but me wants to have, but I love talking about it. OTL)

I want to send them all fanmail.

Um, mostly unrelated, but I've been plodding through some pretty honestly god-awful romantic (original) badfic, but it looks like it might be sort of long and I'm considering posting it in pieces as I get reasonable chunks done. They don't really constitute "chapters" as far as I'm concerned. I'm just wondering if anyone on the face of the earth besides Azzy wants to read this thing, haha.

I'll probably just wimp out and not post it, but at least you've been warned.

I decided to try to write some original fics, but I haven't written in awhile and my prose feels really clunky, even though I read a lot. Huh. Anyway, if I finish anything decent, I'll post it. :>

I just wanted to do sort of a... quickie update here, I guess? I got into the swing of sidequesting in Tales of Graces, and aaaah, it's so good. Sidequests and item-making are great. Also, Hubert's battle ending quotes are awesome. I initially didn't like his voice, but it turned out to be soooo appropriate and it works really well for him!

The character dynamics improve the further in I get, too. I hope they keep the "big family!" thing going, rather than pairing everyone off, because it's so much more cute and fun than hero x heroine ever is.

Whoops, I didn't cross-post this. Maybe later?

My ideas just don't work very well and my descriptions and metaphors are... pretty terrible. I also need to stop trying to write fiction in the present-tense. However, I am a total boss at sentence structure, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, and all that good stuff. (Obviously I don't employ the full extent of this in writing things like journals, though, or they'd probably sound less silly. :9)

I really want an editing job, but since there are like two of those in this entire town, I don't think I'm going to get one unless I've got a degree in journalism or something, which I don't want. OTL

I would suck at journalism. I don't want to write articles; I want to improve someone else's. That's what I'm good at! And if it says "Title, by Name X" and then "Edited by My Name", then we're both getting due credit and I'd be so happy! Aaaaah.

I would edit (and thereby greatly improve) the entire Forces of Tae Kwon Do textbook for free if it meant they'd give me credit for fixing all their grievous errors. :U

I've tried editing other people's fanfiction, but the problem is that the people who want my help are actually beyond help and seem to be totally unaware of it. I don't want to completely rewrite terrible crossover fanfictions so that tenth graders who are failing English class can pretend they know how to write. D:

Here's an actual excerpt from a fanfic written by someone who claimed they were a native English speaker. I am sobbing in advance. I gave up on editing this after like 3 paragraphs.

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If you don't think that's too bad, I will also add that there were 14 pages of this, and that the first half consisted of block-of-text descriptions of every one of her characters. (There were a lot of them, too.) Each paragraph consisted of just one or two absurdly long sentences. Aaaaaah.

Hey, there are even writing memes!

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