Sometimes Up To Something

I don't know, maybe I'll just do second person for my story. It's meant to be sort of like a visual novel but with less visuals and more linear, but I want it to have a slightly interactive feel, and second person might be a bit more immersive. But the thing is, I have another idea of how to use second person with an interesting twist that I don't want to spoil too much. To put it lightly, there are "narrators" who interact with the characters in addition to narrating them in the second person, and they are characters themselves, but I won't say what kind of characters just yet. 

I've been thinking about how to separat ethe first part of my story into episodes, and I think I've got a good outline for it now. As for actually writing it... Well, I want to make it in Twine so it has its own interface and presentation and also music (with a volume slider). I'm not sure how to do the POV, though. I've been trying first person present tense, but that doesn't seem very popular. How else am I supposed to get into my character's minds, though, and show their thoughts in the moment rather than go "'this is what this character was thinking', they thought"?

The main reason I wanted so many visuals in my story was because I wasn't so good at describing things, especially my alien characters. But listening to audiobooks has given me a bit more confidence. People always say reading makes you better at writing. So does listening to someone read, especially since they're able to use different tones of voices for the narration and characters. I still want to have some images in my story, and official art of the characters, but maybe I'll just save that for certain scenes. 

One of my characters in Asterism has the ability to know future events, but there's a bit of a paradox with them. There are some things that she tells people will happen because she knows that they know it will happen, but other things that she has to keep quiet about until they happen because people aren't supposed to know. And every time she tries to defy this, something happens that prevents her from spoiling it, or causes her to spoil it when she didn't want to. So sometimes people aren't happy with her for spoiling things they would rather not know about, and she completely understands that because there have been many things she's wanted to warn people about but couldn't. It doesn't help that most people find her creepy because she has a rather creepy smile and the way she talks also sounds a bit creepy to them because she NEVER raises her voice. But even if she is a bit creepy (even more so when Misunderstood), she does feel remorseful when something ...

Recent feelings of irrational biterness and resentment have motivated me to write a storyline based on it, and quite an early one as well. If this is what helps me work through my frustration, then I'll do it. Anyway, in Asterism, many characters have objects called Attachments that can heal them if they're injured, but there's some kind of corruption that can affect them which can result in the characters becoming Misunderstood - that means they become a version of themselves based on negative perceptions of them, which inreases their own negative feelings. Very often, they'll demand some kind of catharsis, which they will try to obtain by taking out their negative feelings on people they believe have wronged them. They also take on the physical traits of the personifications of their Attachments, resulting in some rather terrifying appearances, which don't really help matters.   Here is someone who became Misunderstood, resulting in his irrational grudge towards a...

One day I will get there with this story. But I thought I'd share the ideas I have for it at the moment.  Asterism is a story that takes place a very long time from now, where reality is not as we currently know it. Beings called Flares, beings called Bridges, and beings called Voices exist along with Humans, but there are still personal conflicts between them. The Flares knew the Humans for a long time due to being in charge of reincarnating them and the animals, and overall have a low opinion on them, believing that all they ever do is hurt and kill each other. It was only when both their homes were under threat that the Flares offered to help the Humans find a new place to live, in exchange for letting some of their kind share it. They started to get on better after that, but now the problem has become inverted, with Flares being the ones looked down on more often than not... The Bridges were created by the Humans and Flares working together, and were found to have unusual, real...

I've had story ideas for ages. I have this big story idea that I've even made some music for. The problem is, how do I tell this story? Most of the characters are aliens with unusual looks, but I'm not very good at describing things, nor am I good at using alternative words for "said" without going overboard. But I'm not the best artist either, I can draw decent pictures but it's too much effort to do them all the time. Where do I find the middle ground? I've had the idea to make a "Visual Novel" but it would really be more of a kinetic novel where the story is linear, and it wouldn't really use sprites because again, too much effort to draw them all. Have people made visual novels where it's all just cutscene images or minimal sprites? Really I just need to find a way that works for me.