How To Build A Daily Writing Habit? (2024)
The best way to be consistent with your writing, and finish you book, is to develop a writing habit. A habit is something that you do everyday, almost without controlling yourself. You crave to do it, and a may even start instinctually doing it when you just go on autopilot. That’s what you need to do when you are a writer. Question is, how do you develop a writing habit? In order to develop a writing habit, you need to first adopt a writer identity, and then use the Atomic Habit rules to create a habit; make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, and finally, make it satisfying. This can be done by changing your physical environment, changing the way you represent yourself to people so they see you as a writer. After this, you need to create a surrounding that will support your writing habits, and discourage procrastination habits, and distractions. When these are done, you will see that you can’t help but feel pressured to write. This is a mouthful, and I swear, I will break it it down. First, we will cover how to develop a writer identity, then we will cover how to make it obvious, make it easy, make it attractive, make it easy and finally, how to make it satisfying. 1 Create A Writer Identity (REWRITE THIS ONE WHEN PUTTING IN PICTURES. EASY) The first step to building a daily habit is to build a writer identity. When we associate a habit or behavior with our state of being, we are more likely to do that habit out of necessity. This is why it can be hard for people to stop smoking because they would say things like ‘I am quitting smoking’. The problem with such as statement is that it assumes you are a smoker who is quitting. A better statement would be something like ‘I do not smoke’. This takes on the identity of a person who is not a smoker, which helps. So what physical steps can you take to be a writer? Start introducing yourself as a writer. When in a conversation, ask people their opinions on writing, and steer the conversation in the direction of writing. Then, you will notice people will start calling you to show you something about a book, or ask you about it. When people start to treat you like a writer, it will create a feed back look that cements the writer identity for you to grow. Further physical steps you can take are… 2. Change the environment so that writing habit more accommodated The second step to building a writing habit is to change your environment so that it is more conducive to writing. This is a make it obvious step. This does not mean you not mean you have to go renovating your house. The thing is, our environments are usually not conducive to writing. Our friends are always running around the room, the laptop is full of movies to be watched, and books to be read later, and there is always something that needs to be done. This means that as you sit down to write, your mind is on something else, and as you write, you are thinking of something else you will have to do when done. To change this, you could open straight to the writing document. Then you could leave your laptop on your writing space. Every night, I sleep with the laptop open directly on the line I will be boring on. Also, I close all other documents on the laptop, and may even fix the place up as if I intend to sit. I do the same thing as I leave the house, or go anywhere. What this does is it signals to all your friends that you will be writing soon, because they see you walking around your writing space, and they know you never want to be disrupted when you work there. This means when the time you’ve set to write arrives, you can excuse yourself, and they will not be caught of guard. 3. Add a writing space to practice your writing habit The third step to building a writing habit is to adding a writing space to your room. This is a make it obvious step. The writing space is best explained in this article, where we go over the benefits, and the steps to building one. In summary, a writing space helps you with consistency, since whenever you get to a writing space, your mind gets in the mood of writing. Add on top of that this article on how to make time to write your book, and you will have yourself a killer combo. The short and dirty of it is, to your writing space needs to be a place that you can sit in for hours. This can be a table, but there are authors who write laying on the concrete floor. It all depends on you. On top of that, you may want to add things that make it fun to be there, like a pleasant smell, food, and music. Be careful with music. It’s better to use an album, which you can’t skip. So listen to an 80s greatest Motown hits on youtube or something like that. Usually, you’ll hear a song you like. I tend to se Whitney Houston (favorite song is ‘Saving all my love for you’), Luther Vandross (favorite song is ‘I know’), and Noah Jones (favorite song in the album is ‘Don’t know why’). You can listen to one song repeatedly if you wish, and this s best when it is a song that disappears into the background for you. So more ballads. My preferred one is Adele’s cover of Make You Feel My Love. But you can choose anything you want. 4. Prepare physically for it, like going to work, to assist preparing for your writing habit The fourth step to building a habit is to physically prepare
How To Write An Efficient Writing Schedule?
A writing schedule is one of the most important things that a writer can create for themselves. Most writers tend to write at random times that they can find, but with a schedule, writing becomes more professional, and it becomes more proficient. Add how to write consistently to your writing schedule, and you will be off. So, how do you create a writing schedule? In order to create a writing schedule, you must select a series of days, not dates, where you are often free from work. Then select a series of time slots where you are free and finally, create a routine for those time sessions. Writing schedules need to aim for being as quantitative (long) as possible, while also being as productive as possible. To writing schedule as long as possible, you will need to add numerous days in the work, while also trying to increase the hours spent writing. To make them productive, you will need to use the 5 step structure to maximize productivity. A bit of a mouthful, but better than usual. Before we can get to exactly how you can implement these, it is important that you first learn to understand what a writing schedule is. What Is A Writing Schedule? A writing schedule is the specific time period that you set apart to write. It is important to distinguish a writing schedule, from a writing habit, and a writing routine. A writing routine is the steps you usually take as you sit and write. A writing habit is the tugging feeling pushing you to write. Finally, a writing schedule instead is the time period where you can feel your writing habit, and do your writing routine. When you start a writing schedule, you will get benefit that. For example: How To Create A Writing Schedule? 1. Set the Proper Days For Your Writing Schedule The first step to setting a writing schedule is choosing the days you intend to write on. You are not going to be finding days to work. Instead, you are going to create them. Grab a calendar, and look for days of the week you are not working as much. Then, choose those days. The more frequent the days, the more likely this will become a habit for you. However, don’t choose all the days, as this will backfire and you will begin to resent the whole process of writing, and you will burn out. So to avoid burning out, I suggest you leave out 2-3 days of the week. EXTRA TIP: It can happen that you will finish all your days, yet you will still find yourself craving to work. I beg you, brethren, do not work. Use those resting days, and if you feel like really working, then just decrease the resting days to a single week. But never go a week without a single rest day. 2. Set the Proper Times The second step would be choosing the perfect times to work. This is something I covered in my finding time to write article, but the key here is, you want to find a proper time to work. No, you need to make it. In order to do this, you need to clear your day, the way you clear a dinner table. When your dinner table is dirty, you identify everything that is on the table. Plates, spices, food, and spoons. Then, you place them all in their rightful place; the sink, the cabinet, the fridge, in your bed. Finally, you fix you the table and place the things that can’t be moved in a proper place; vases etc. That’s how you make time. You identify what you spend your day doing. To do this, i suggest downloading an app. Personally, I use appblock, because it gives me not only what I do, but how long I do it, and a daily/weekly comparison, which is awesome. When that is complete, I then arrange the activities. I entirely remove the useless ones that I do, such as Instagram, YouTube, chrome etc. Then, the ones I have no choice but to do, I arrange into other parts of the day. Usually around afternoon, when I am most energetic. This means, I open up the morning, and the night time to write. Use this technique, and you will create time for yourself to write to. 3. Set the Proper Plan for your writing schedule The third tp to creating a writing schedule is coming up with the proper plan for what you will do the following day. This one is something you will need to do every night before you go to sleep. You will need to write down a basic goal of what you wish to achieve with your writing the following day. You can summarize it with something like, ‘Complete the elevator scene’, or ‘finish the outline’. This planning part is just so you know what you will do during your writing time so that it can be more productive. The first 2 advise were focused on creating time, and increasing your writing time as much as possible (which is why you chose days instead of dates). This one is about increasing the productivity during the writing sessions. 4. Set Procrastination Measures The fourth step to creating a writing schedule is to create measures to deal with your procrastination. All procrastination looks the same. You decide you have something to do, but you don’t do it. This is because of 2 reasons. 1, you do not have a specific time when to do it, only a day. This leads to you pushing it and not feeling guilty. A measure to stop this is just choose a specific time. However, this one is not going to be your problem, as mentioned in step 2. Since you’ve selected what time you will write in, you have nothing to procrastinate about. The second reason people procrastinate is by pushing the time forward. They tell themselves they just need to
How To Write An Iconic Fight – New Method
Most fight scenes are so bad, that there is a trend where readers just skip the fight scene to see how it ends. This is horrible. If a person can skip a part of your book, and yet they can follow the story without missing anything, that part should not have been in the book. So, make sure your fight scene plays an important role in the story. Make it memorable. Make it iconic. The question of course becomes how. How do you write an iconic fight scene? To write an iconic fight scene, you must write a scene where the character progresses through violence. So you must introduce your character’s flaw, their character arc, show them progressing, and finally, show them changing. The fight scene should start with an introduction of the character’s flaws, shown through their fighting abilities, the environment, or their words, then it should end with all 3 aspects having been flipped fundamentally. That was a mouthful, but it is fairly easy to explain. I will explain the logic behind it first, then I will begin explaining the step by step practical process you can take to make it happen. If you want to learn how to have an insanely productive morning routine to assist your new skills you learn here, you can click here. What Is A Great Fight Scene? A great fight scene is a fight scene that is consequential. There are many fight scenes in stories, which tend to appear the same. One character wants something, and the other does not want to give them. Maybe the one wants an object, or to find another character. Maybe they even want that character’s life. So the other does not want to give the other character what they want. As a result, they fight. Unfortunately, this is just a good fight scene, not great. A great fight scene goes beyond just the surface level. It is a scene where both characters want the same thing, and they fight over this thing, and when it ends, the implications to the plot are massive. It is extremely consequential. So, the traits of a great fight scene are: So, how can you structure you story in such a way that these three elements are best portrayed? The Kishotenketsu structure In the west, most stories follow a structure that emphasizes conflict. In fact, I argue for the same too in this blog. The problem with that is that additional conflicts could take your character’s attention away from the central conflict. So for fight scenes, I prefer to use the kishotenketsu structure. In this structure, we emphasize self-reflection, and self-realization, and the climax of conflict is replaced with the twist at the end. The structure goes like this: So, what actionable step by step process can you take to implement the traits of a great fight, and the structure? How To Write A Great Fight Scene? 1. Introduce The Hero, And The Villain The first step to writing a great fight scene is to introduce the status quo. The first step will be an introduction of the fight. You need to introduce the contenders for the fight, the stakes for the fight, the arena for the fight, and the goal for the fight. Remember, this is supposed to show a character progression, and a character progression goes like this. So, in the introduction phase, you are introducing point 1, 2, 3, 4. This is shown through the hero’s fighting style, the world they inhabit, and his words. For example, let’s say a farmer is fighting a lord. The farmer’s flaw is that he thinks he is beneath the lord. This could be shown in the world they inhabit by the fight starting with them outdoors with the lord on his horse, while the farmer is in the farm field. The lord unsheathes his sword, and the farmer timidly holds up his rake. Then, you must show the stakes, and the goal. Maybe the two both want to reach the boat, and sail across. That’s the goal they share. But the lord is doing it to reach his family, while the farmer is trying to get a sick family member away from the war behind them. Those are the stakes. 2. Use The World The second step is to introduce the world that the character’s inhabit. The world needs to be a visual representation of the internal flaw that the main character faces. If the main character sees themselves as being smaller that their contender, they should be made smaller. They should be standing at a smaller place then their contender. If a main character is arrogant, and stands as their worst enemy, a room of mirrors is perfect for them. So on, and so forth. It’s fairly easy to find once you know what your character’s main personality flaw is. So, introduce a fighting space that reflects the heroes internal feelings. Also, do not hesitate to make it awesome. 3. Introduce Their Styles The third step to writing an interesting fight scene is to show the hero and the villain’s fighting abilities. The first exchange between the hero, and villain is only to show just what the hero, and villain are capable of. In the kishotenketsu structure, this is still the introduction phase. Usually, these are arranged in a manner that we will see the hero’s strength first, and their abilities, as they try to beat the villain. But the villain tanks the attacks. Then, the villain delivers powerful blows. The hero can also handle the attacks. What I like to do is show how the hero, and villain are beyond normal human in their abilities. If their fighting style is more realistic, and precision based, like gun fu, then I may have them do an impossible shot to show their skill. Or, you could have your hero crush a brick with a kick, only for the villain to smile, and crush a boulder with their own kick. That
How To Write An Adventure Story – 7 Steps
It is not easy to find a technique to write adventure stories online. Most of the advice you may come across tells you the elements that should be in the story, but scarcely how to actually put them there. Or just random traits, such as ‘an adventure needs to take place in the distant past’, but with no explanations as to why. I’ve already spoken on how to consistently write a story. I have a way that I use to write adventure stories, and if it works for you, then you can have it. So, how to write adventure stories? To write adventure stories, you must write a story where the main conflict of the story can only be solved through extensive travel, where the characters are built for travel, and the world is designed to accommodate travel stories. The main conflict that can only be solved through travel is a goal that can only be solved through traveling, so you need to make such a goal for the main character. Characters built for travel are characters whose character progress, development, and design indicate travel. Finally, a world that is designed to accommodate travel stories is a world where travel is possible, but it is also not encouraged, for the sake of conflict. This is a mouthful, I know. In order to untangle it, first we must explain to you just what an adventure story is. When you know what it is, not only will you be able to implement the tips efficiently, but you can augment them to fit your personal style. WHICH I HEAVILY ADVISE. All writing tips do is show you how to best express yourself and story. They do not tell you what to write! What Is An Adventure Story? An adventure story is a story where the main conflict can only be solved through extensive travel. The primary difference between genres of writing is scarcely the worlds, or the characters. Yes, a futuristic story is different from a western story because of the world, and the characters. However, these differences stem from an even deeper difference, and that is the central message of the story. A futuristic story probably wants to say something about the environment and our technology, while a western story wants to say something about them communities, and towns. Thus, what is the best way to represent the messages in a story? Through the goals. The central conflict of a story is the fight between the hero, and the villain to attain a common goal. As a consequence, this goal needs to be related to travelling in some manner. So it’s message needs to be travel centric. A message like ‘Friendships last a long way, so go far together’ or ‘Imperialism bad’. Whatever the message, it is shown through the goal. If the message is ‘friendship lasts a long way, so go fat together’, then the goal could be something like the hero having to attain something from a mountain far away, but they can’t cook, fight, build weapons, use magic, or shoot an arrow. So they get people who can. And if a message is ‘imperialism bad’, then the goal would be the heroes trying to destroy an imperial artifact. You see? Simple. Now, let’s get to just how you can go about writing a complete story that properly represents your central conflict (message). 7 Steps To Writing A Great Adventure Story 1. Central Conflict that Encourages Travel The first step to writing an adventure story is writing a central conflict that can only be solved through travel. As mentioned, a central conflict is the goal that the hero and the villain are fighting for. There are 2 types of goals that encourage travel; a goal where the hero is being chased, or a goal where the hero is doing the chasing. A story where the hero is being chased is fairly stragiht forward. There is some sort of terror that wishes to harm our hero, so they must flee. This could be something that is literally chasing the hero, such as an assassin, or Death like in puss in boots. But sometimes, it can be immaterial. Such as a horrible disaster like a drought, plague, or zombies. Whatever works. It could even be the heroes responsibilities, or family. As long as it makes the hero try to flee, then it should work. The second type of goal, a hero trying to chase for something, can slo be simple. You could have a treasure, or something. So the hero has to find it. Finally, you could fuse the two. The hero is running away from something by going to get something. Maybe a master, or a safe location or whatever. 2. Character That Are Dependent On Travel The second step to writing an adventure story is to create characters that are dependent on travel. There are 3 steps of character creation; character progression, character development, and character design. I promise, its all very easy. All character progression is, is the change the character goes through. it starts with a shy character, and ends with the character being talkative. Or it starts with them arrogant, and ends with them humble. The internal change of the character. Character development is the characters names, physical appearance, personality, abilities and backstory. Character design is the characters clothing, appearance, instruments, body language, word choice, silhouette, and color grading. All these work together. Your character begins their progress possessing a flaw, which leads to a false belief. In adventure stories, the false belief needs to correlate with travel somehow. Maybe they believe they need glory to be accepted, so they take reckless tasks on. They could even believe that they are too weak, and be too scared of taking responsibility. This belief is reflected in their design (clothing, appearance, word choices, body language and having abilities tied to travel, such as sailing, map reading, fighting with a special spear etc) and in their development, (traumatic backstory
Brain Fog: Why your mind is so foggy?
Brain fog is one of the most irritating things to deal with. Yet, if you work in a creative business, whether it is writing novels, making drawings, or producing music beats, then there is a high chance you will find yourself unable to concentrate for wide spans of time. If you are interested in how to have an insanely productive morning, we already have that covered, but for now, we will focus on the mind. So, why does your mind get so foggy and what can you do about it so that you can get back to your most productive self? Your mind gets fogged due to chemical imbalance caused by electromagnetic radiation, hormonal changes, and insufficient rest cycles. These are the more common causes of mind fog amongst younger people. These effects are caused by life styles, so this is a biopsychosocial disease of sorts. For older people, it can be the same thing, except the mind is losing some of it’s functions meaning healing takes longer. That is the broad strokes of what causes this phenomenon. At 19, I used to suffer so often from brain fog, but today, I never experience the scenario. The reason being, I learned to understand brain fog, and just how to permanently deal with it. Before we can get to the cures, we must first understand a few things. Let’s get into the article with: What Is Brain Fog? Brain fog syndrome is when your mind starts to feel clustered with fog, leading to you thinking slowing down to the point where you struggle to remember things, you can’t focus, concentrate, and as a result, you are constantly confused. Brain fog basically is when your mind feels full of air, and fog. You may feel like a balloon blown to the max, and could even feel that “fog” pushing your eyes, and ears. As a result, you can’t focus on the things you see or hear, because you the thoughts feel like they must travel sluggishly through the fog in your mind. For me, it used to follow days of suffering from light headedness when I stand. Light headedness is caused by the blood in your body pooling to your feet when you stand, meaning the blood is not going into your mind. This leads to your head feeling light, and you may faint. As you can tell, this could lead to similar consequences to brain fog. Brain fog is the worst because it can follow especially when you are trying to focus on working on your creative tasks. Creative tasks tend to take a long time to complete, meaning you sit down for a long time exposed to electromagnetic radiation. It can lead to brain fog. Possible etiologies for the brain fog were identified including undertreated mood disorder; possible sleep disorder; and changes in eating patterns, which prompted referrals to a psychologist, sleep disorder specialist, and a registered dietitian respectively Krishnan. k, lin. y.f, prewitt k.r.m, potter .d.a, Multidisciplinary approach to brain fog and related persisting symptoms post covid-19 The above quote is taken from a study on brain fog; what causes them, and the solutions for each. The study advises a 4 stage process to fixing brain fog; first, ruling out neurological causes for brain fog. Second, an evaluation for (1) cognition, (2) neuroinflammation markers, (3) psychological factors, and (4) sleep disorders. Third, decide what to do next (whether to get professional help or not) depending on your position; your medical and psychiatric history, current symptoms, your goals and motivation to improve (wanting to improve so you can get to working quickly, or improving so you can live your life better in the long run), and your limitations (financial or obligational schedules). Finally, fourth, if you decide to go to a psychiatrist, they should keep in mind referrals to specialist as outlined by these things you just dotted down, or better yet, they should be writing it down themselves. For a more in depth reading of the study, click here. What Are 6 Possible Causes For Brain Fog? There are 6 possible causes for brain fog, specifically for creatively inclined professions: Does Brain Fog Go Away? Brain Fog does go away with enough time. If you are younger, than brain fog should leave with a few hours, or days. Sometimes though, brain fog can last for weeks, and even worse, it could last for months. However, no matter how long, brain fog usually goes away. If you find that you have brain fog, and it won’t go away for months, then you should really see a doctor. Prolonged brain fog can lead to things like Alzheimer, and Parkinson’s disease. However, there are ways you could treat your brain fog. Before you go to the doctor, try out these techniques to calm your brain fog. How Do You Calm Brain Fog? There are at least 6 steps you could take to try and cure your brain fog. What Is The Fastest Way To Cure Brain Fog? The fastest way to get rid of brain fog is to do physical activities outside, and to do isolated mental activities. Personally, the technique that I used to clear my brain fog was 2 fold. First, it had to get my body physically active. Secondly, it had to isolate my mind and get me to think seriously. For the first one, I want a physical activity that is not to strenuous. So, I may go for a walk, preferably through the forest or somewhere green. I might cap it of with a light swim, or bath. The reason for this is that when my head is underwater, I do not feel the mind fog as much, and I like that feeling. Then, I move on to the second part, which is isolating the mind. To isolate the mind, it means I want to do an activity that only requires I use the mind, and maybe eyes. No other body part, such as hands (like
How To Spot A Good Fantasy Book?
So, you’ve finally written yourself your fantasy book. or you have the idea too. We have already spoken about the unique qualities that make a good fantasy book, but those are for generals. What about your specific book? How can you implement the qualities and see if a book is a good fantasy book? How do you know that your book is more special than the typical? Well, the first step is to figure out how to spot a good fantasy book that you have not written. If you want to know how to recognize a good fantasy book, you will first need to look at the stories reviews. Most reviews of stories tend to be accurate, and will tell you whether it is worth reading or not. Then read the synopsis and see if it sounds good to you. When you master figuring out good fantasy books with this method, you can then turn to your story, and implement these steps to figure out if you book is good. Here is how this article is written. 1. An internal structure of the story Great Fantasy books are books with a great internal structure, which tells the story in a unique fashion that has never been seen before. One of the common sayings that I’ve heard, which I half-agree with, is the saying that there is nothing new that can be created anymore. I think that’s true. After all, look at fantasy races. Most of what we have seen have been derived from Lord Of The Rings. Things like Orcs make a reappearance in Wheel of Time as Trollocs (Troll-orcs?). People then argue it is the same for stories. All stories follow the same story structures/ tropes. For example, Harry Potter, a story about an orphan going to a magic school, appears a lot. And A Song of Ice and Fire, a medieval fantasy about the reappearance of monsters who must be slain appears a lot. However, there is a unique way that the best fantasy books usually distinguish themselves, and that is by changing the internal structure of the story. This means changing the structure with which you tell the story. As a result of this, Harry Potter focuses more on the high school drama rather than the magic and training. Game of Thrones focuses more on the politics rather than the battle fields, and magic swords. This fresh spin, and unique internal structure of a familiar story creates a truly fantastical story. 2. A theme that connects the elements of the story A fantasy story with a theme that connects the story, and the internal structure is a great story. A common mistake that people make is trying to avoid having themes in their story from fear of being preachy. This is understandable. After all, what if you are wrong in your beliefs, and lead an impressionable person down a horrible path or you upset some people with your opinion? These are fair concerns, and I completely agree with the sentiments. However you need to understand that the whole point of telling a story is the message. In everyday life whenever someone tells a story, it is usually to stress a point, even if entertainment is the goal. For example, comedians never go into their stories without a lead up. They will first say something like, “I am never helping my daughter with her homework again.” Then, they shoot into a funny, bizarre story, and when they are done, we are thoroughly entertained, but the story was kept together by this one thematic line. This leads to the second point. Themes do not need to be deep. A message can be as straightforward and simple as “School is where you get friends”. The only thing you should make sure happens in with a theme is that it is answered. The story raises a question, and the conclusion of the story is the answer. That answer can never be wrong, as it is the answer you give to the situation. Your opinion can never be wrong, and most people will always take the theme as your opinion, so you do not have to worry about that. A fantasy story with a connective theme is a great story. 3. A fantasy book with a good magic system A magic system that connects to the theme of the story. Brandon Sanderson has taught a lot of classes on how to write great magic systems. He emphasis 2 types; soft and hard magic systems. The soft magic systems have loose rules, while the hard magic systems have very complex laws to be followed, and only activate in those specific situations. But I’m going to ask you something different today; does the story need a hard or soft magic system? A sign of a great fantasy book is whether the theme of the story is reflected through the magic system. This is shown with the parallels between the main arguments of the story, and the magic system. For example, in Harry Potter, the theme is love, and family. The theme is you can make friends wherever you go. So the magic system shows this. Although a lot of stories tend to feature bloodlines for magic, in Harry Potter, even people with no witch blood can be magic users. In fact, some people with magic blood can’t use magic. This symbolizes how you do not have to share someone’s blood for them to be your family, and how some people who you share blood with are not your family. Though when it comes to fantasy, most people tend to pay attention to awesome magic battles, which is also cool. As a result, the magic comes first, and then the theme, story, and characters appear afterwards. I’ve always felt like that’s what happened with Wheel of Time, though I have no proof. However, it is alright if you can then build the theme, setting, and characters around the magic system. Something Wheel of Time
Manga Guide: When Is It Released, How To Read And Should You Read It?
It is not uncommon to sift through online comment sections and spot a myriad of anime/manga profile pictures. These point to the sudden popularity and acceptance that anime, and Japanese works have received. So you to may be curious as to what exactly anime is. Or in this case, what is manga? And what does it have to do with anime? ‘Manga’ is a style of Japanese works that covers comic books, and graphic novels but with a wide target audience range consisting of children, and adults. However, manga distinguishes itself from western comic books in a number of ways, namely through its production process, its release format, its art style, its genres and how it is to be read. These differences come from the fact that manga is a Japanese product, created for Japanese people using Japanese methods. However, that does not mean non-Japanese can’t enjoy it too. That is an extremely vague description, so let’s attempt to go into details. We will explain just what we mean with this article, starting with… What Is Manga? Manga are comic books, and graphic novels that are made in Japan. This rather simplistic definition of manga describes pretty much everything you need to know to understand manga. Manga are comic books and graphic novels. This means that there are a lot of fair similarities draw between the two, such as the fact that they both use a combination of text and visual mediums to tell stories. Also, they both use frames (or koga in Japanese), to mark their motions in the pages. Finally, they also use things like speech bubbles to show a speaker. But manga is Japanese. This means that manga has traditionally Japanese writing styles. Also, Japanese manga uses its visual medium to tell a story in a far more detailed manner than a lot of western works. This can be hard to understand now, but it will be explained soon enough. For now, what you need to understand is that manga is a bit more than comic books are. Understanding this will allow you to have an easier slide into learning how to read manga. For a more detailed description of the difference between manga, and comics, it is better to just click here. How Does Manga Tell A Story? Manga tells stories through the use of different types of genres, and the use of a unique chapter/volume format born from how manga are released. If you mean how is manga read, you can click here and learn to read manga in under 5 minutes. The first thing that we need to discuss is that manga has a wide audience range. In Japan, foreigners are often surprised to find that not only is manga everywhere, in terms of advertising, and merchandise, but also there are lots of people who read manga. From children at the park, to adults on the train, people in Japan are constantly reading manga, and it is not weird for them at all. The question of course becomes how can adults run around happily reading children’s cartoons. The answer to that question is just as simply; they aren’t. There are multiple different genres of manga which appeal to people of different age ranges. These include: How Do Manga Chapters Work? Manga are categorized in chapters, arcs, and sagas, which are released by a magazine company. If a manga becomes popular enough, it’s chapters are put together into a single book, and released solo. There are two main things to understand about manga for you to grasp how their chapter. The first is the internal categorization of manga stories, and the second is the external categorization. Internal Categorization (Manga Arcs, and Sagas) For the internal categorization, we are dealing with the content. Meaning we are dealing with the story being told in the specific manga series. In most comics, we tend to see single issues. These are comics where a villain is introduced, then defeated within the same chapter. However, this never happens in manga. With manga, a villain is introduced, and they are defeated only after a long series of events. If not villain, then there is a specific problem that is only handled after a long time. This spans numerous chapters, and it is called an arc. Sometimes, there is a villain introduced who is so big, that the heroes must defeat a number of mini bosses before they reach the main villain. This means that we get to see a collection of arcs. This is called a saga. In One Piece, we read hundreds of chapters before we finished the Dressrosa arc and defeated the villain, Doflamingo. Yet, this was only one arc out of many arcs leading to the fight against Kaido, the saga boss. External categorization (Manga Volumes) The second thing is external categorization. This refers to how the stories are placed together. Basically, if a series in the magazine is popular enough, it will have it’s chapters compiled into its own mini book. This is called a tankobon volume. These tankobon are then sold, and people who do not want to sludge through other manga before they read their preferred manga can just buy the tankobon, and read all the chapters they want. When Is Manga Released And Why? Manga is released on a weekly, and a monthly basis. This is because that is the schedule that is set up by the publishing magazine company, and there are only ever a few deviations from it. There are 4 things that can affect a manga’s release schedule, but there is one main one; the publishing magazine’s schedule. Manga Publishing Companies Now, all manga are released with their publishing magazine company. The company publishes a single magazine issue which is full of multiple manga within the story. As a consequence, the manga only receives space for a single chapter in a magazine full of multiple different series. Also, there is high competition for the manga to get space in the
How Is Manga Read – A 5 minute Technique (2024)
If you’ve finally decided to give Japanese comic books, manga, a chance then you will definitely come across the same problem that all westerners have come across. Manga is hard to read. From the frames that are just confusing, to the weird shifts in the story paneling and flow, manga can be a nightmare for anyone who is starting to read manga. However, there are simple steps to take to make sure that you understand manga, and can just jump into enjoying these epic stories. These are the pieces of advices that I wish someone had told me when I started reading manga. How to read Japanese Manga? Japanese manga is read from right to left, and top- down. This is because most works in Japan are written from right to left, and books are in fact structured from right to left, while others are written from top down. To read a Japanese manga, you read each panel (called a koma), from the one on the right upper side, then the left one, and then go to the right lower column. Additionally, try to first isolate the biggest forms in each koma so you can readily identify the action lines, and the symbols. Finally, make sure you read works you already understand or enjoy, and it will go that much more easier for you to implement and practice these strategies. If you can follow the rules from just the text above, then you should be able to read your first manga. But if you want a more detailed explanation of each line, then here is how to read manga. 1. Right To Left The first lesson to learning how to read manga is to read the top right panel first, then the left one, and then go a level lower, to the right again. Do this till you finish the page. I covered this in detail in my differences between manga and comics article, but the first thing to understand about manga is that it is a Japanese product. This means that it is made with Japanese conventions. In the Western world, we write from left to right. There is a reason for this of course, as covered in this article. There is a reason why it is written “backward”. In Japan though, most of the works are written from right to left. In some instances, they are written from top to bottom (these columns still go from right to left though). So, keep this in mind. 2. Find The Big Objects, And Ignore Action Lines The second step is when reading the koma (panels), try to focus on find the main image or form first, then look at what the rest of the panel shows. The first thing you will notice about manga is that they are not colored. manga are instead written in black, and white. This makes it hard for you to see what the image is trying to show you. You can’t tell apart the background image, the characters, and the actions that the author is trying to show you. It becomes even worse when you factor in things like action lines, at which point it almost seems impossible to know what you seeing. A simple fix for this is that you must always look for the main form/shape that the panel is trying to show you, then try to identify the environment, and finally the action that the form is taking. Panels always show one thing. A character, an instrument, a building, a city. Just try to find the main image that you must find, using the story as context clue, and when you’ve found it, you can then rearrange what everything else may be, 3. Be Aware Of The Manga Signs The third step to reading manga is to be able to distinguish the manga signs from the actually physical manifestations in the story. It is also worth mentioning that there are a lot of signs that are used in this comic style. These could be hard to decipher for comic readers or westerners. These signs could also add to the confusion of reading, but these signs are just sound effects , and onomatopoeia, not actually physical things within the world of the story. The sound effects are called gitaigo, while the symbols are called manpu. Manpu are primarily used to show expressions, and emotions of the characters. For example, things like shock, sadness, or horniness (which actually comes up a lot). Meanwhile, things like gitaigo are used to show things like onomatopoeia. So things like the sounds of dogs barking, a punch connecting, or a stomach growling. 4. Set Time For Reading, and Quantity For Reading The fourth step to learning to learning to read manga is doing impromptu reading sessions. It is a bit weird to consciously set apart time to read manga. These comics are not work. it is an enjoyable activity that you do when you have down time. However, because it is your first time, it could feel taxing as you try to read the manga before you. T o avoid this, make it an official session. Basically, when you do find yourself having a down time, tell yourself that you will do 10 minutes of reading a manga you are interested in. Pull out your time, and actually count out 10 minutes, then start reading. At first, this will be hard, since you won’t know which way is up or down. You may feel tempted to stop, but I’m here to tell you, don’t. Continue reading, and when you are done, you will find that reading the manga is not as hard as it was before. You may even begin to find yourself getting lost in the story. This is exactly what you want. 5. Read A Manga Whose Anime You’ve Watched The fifth trick you could use to improve your manga reading skills is to try and read manga that inspired the anime you enjoyed. This
“I hate fantasy”-10 bad reasons why people hate fantasy
We’ve been talking a lot about fantasy in this blog lately, and mostly we’ve been speaking about the positive things. Understandable, since I am such a massive fantasy nerd. However, I am not oblivious to the fact that fantasy is not everybody’s cup of tea. Again, I have covered in other articles the criticisms that some people have of fantasy. criticisms that are fair. It must be said though, not all criticisms of fantasy is fair, which is what we will be discussing to day. What are some bad reasons to hate fantasy? The primary reason why people hate fantasy is because they say it is unrealistic. This leads people to say that those who watch fantasy end up being unproductive in the real world. They may then say that fantasy can’t connect to people because of its unrealistic nature. Some dislike fantasy because it desensitizes people to violence. Others may argue that fantasy is childish. These all have the same thing in common, in that they misunderstand it. All stories exists to make a single point. Sometimes to make your point, you need to extend your metaphor vocabulary, and conjure scenarios that don’t exist. As long as the point you are making is sound and valid, then your point was successful. That’s absolutely a mouthful, so I will try to break it down for you guys as easily as I can. We will be breaking it down into these 10 basic arguments, and explaining how each is answered by our explanation. 1. Fantasy Is Unrealistic The first reason bad reason we could give to dislike fantasy is to argue that it is a bit unrealistic for us. Now, I know exactly what we are talking about here. The talking animals, elemental manipulation, dragons, magic weapons, and the magical creatures all around us. People who argue fantasy is unrealistic tend to not even be bothered by the medieval European setting, even the made up nature of the world. What bothers them is the people flying through walls, and just the general magic. This however misses the point of fantasy, as it is not meant to be taken as real. All stories are an argument. The story possess 5 elements; characters, setting, POV, plot and the theme. All these things work to show us a central lesson. Basically, a central argument. Our character starts of as arrogant, and through the plot, the setting, the POV, and the themes, we see the character become humble. The central message in the story could be something like, ‘Humility makes you a better, happier person’. This is how all stories work. They make an argument. However, sometimes you can’t make an argument using just recognizable means. I could try to teach my sibling not to play with a stove by retelling the time I got burnt. But what if I had to tell my youngest child something more abstract such as “keep your word” in a way that is simple to understand? Well, I use the Pied Piper story. Even for adults, we have biblical stories to tell teach them about keeping your word, such as the story of Jonah. The point is, sometimes you need to come up with extra ordinary situations but as long as it works towards making your argument, then it absolutely is real. Maybe its not real that you can call rats with your flute, but is it not real that you should keep your word? 2 Fantasy Readers Are Unproductive In The Real World The second poor reason we can come up with for disliking fantasy is that it makes the readers unproductive. Now, this is an argument we can only reach if we kept to the first point. We would argue that people who watch fantasy only see horses, and people breathing fireballs. Therefore, how could they know how to have everyday interactions? There is no breathing fireballs in the real world. Instead, if they watched a drama they would see people in relationships, and how complex those could get. Thus they would know how to behave properly in a relationship, or risk their partner being unfaithful. However this makes a terrible mistake again, as this is based on the misunderstanding that fantasy is made for those magic things. Instead of the truth, which is that fantasy is made to teach life lessons. And any good fantasy fan is definitely up for learning these lesson. A survey was conducted in 2015 which found that 72.2 % of the fantasy readers were employed or self-employed; 70,5% were in a relationship, and 82,4% had a university level education. Why are fantasy readers doing so well? Because they learned great lessons from fantasy. Hard-work, loyalty, honesty, discipline, self-sacrifice, comradery etc. It would be easy for us to assume that fantasy readers who do not watch other shows like crime shows or drama shows are a bit behind in learning social behaviors. This way they will probably be ruined, and taken advantage of, or never have a comfortable life. The thing is we neglect to realize that learning these things does not help us avoid these things, instead it attracts these things into our lives. Those who learn honest, attract such too. 3. Fantasy Does Not Connect Well The third bad reasons is because it does not connect well to the people. Now when it comes to this one, we have to admit that some people just connect to things differently. Fantasy is one of the most successful genres in the world today, if not the most. This would show how it is very good at connecting to people. Many people see themselves in a lot of these characters. They see traits they wish they could imbody in their lives in some of the characters. Not necessarily wishing to embody the trait of being a billionaire, and having an iron suit, then flying to school everyday (though i am sure this is absolutely a common fantasy.). Rather, traits like constant improvement,
Why People Love The Fantasy Genre
At 2023, the top 10 most selling movies of all time are made up of mostly fantasy stories. In addition to that, the top 10 best selling books of all time, internationally, are all fantasy books of a sorts. As a consequence, the fantasy genre has become a juggernaut. Most people may feel this is fair. Although I have covered what elements make a good fantasy book, it does not explain why the fantasy genre is so well received. Which begs the question. What does the fantasy genre do better than every other genre? Fantasy is a unique genre, because it is the only genre in which the central conflict and themes of the story are physically exhibited. This is because fantasy has magic systems, which are the physical manifestations of not only the central conflict of the story, but also of the progression of the character. In addition, fantasy uses this to build a world that is internal consistent, allowing for a more immersive reading experience. Another reason why fantasy is unique is because it resonates with the Carl Jungian subconscious of all human beings in the world. These factors allow people of all ages, and lands to be able to connect to fantasy, and thus, it allows people to get the benefits of reading more easily from fantasy. A mouthful no doubt. But when you understand the first bit, the rest follow naturally. So, for you to understand exactly what we are saying, let’s start with point number 1 out of 9 reasons why fantasy kicks butts. 1. Fantasy Expresses the Themes In The Most Tangible Way Fantasy is the best equipped to show the more metaphysical aspects of the story through its magic systems. Thus it can portray things like themes, character progression through just the magic system. All stories have 5 main elements; characters, plot, POV, setting, and finally, themes. Most of these can be seen physically, such as characters, and setting. Even plot is observed as unfolding before us. POV is mostly just the character we see the story from. The one thing that is hardest to distinguish is the themes. It takes thinking, and observation to piece together the possible themes of a story. Unless of course you are dealing with fantasy. In fantasy stories, the themes are shown to us through the magic system itself. Characterization, and flaws are shown through the magic system. If the theme of the story is forgiveness, and our main character is an angry unforgiving person (flaw), then their powers could be something like fire powers. Fire is also fiery (angry) and unforgiving (burns indiscriminately). Then it could end with our hero finding a way to use their fire to create something new, to clean something, and to fix what was broken. At that stage, they are not angry anymore. But even more, observe how this is the process of forgiveness. It is all shown physically, which is just amazing to consider. 2. Fantasy Has The Deepest World Building The fantasy genre is unique in how deep its world building tends to be. Another extension of the fantasy genres magic system is the world building. Usually, there needs to be some sort of explanation why all these people are leaping mountains in a hop. So, the world is crafted in a way that describes this. And let me tell you, writers go nuts. Fantasies have their own history, their own environments, ecology, buildings, cultures, politics, and even their own religions. Point being, fantasies become truly massive things. The best part of this is that the fantasies are often an extension of the magic system. This means the world is usually an extension of the themes of the story, of the character’s flaw, and of the character’s progression. Also, this leads to consistency. Consistency good. Consistency necessary. Hail Consistency! 3. Fantasy Has The Most Psychologically Resonant Stories Fantasy is unique because it’s stories resonate with a great unconscious mind in all human beings, connecting us to our non-thinking ancestors, adn each other. The best part about fantasy is something that has been observed by Swiss-Psychologist, Carl Jung. Carl Jung was a student of Freud, and he’d learned about the unconscious mind, which was a revolutionary idea at the time. Most people did not realize there were powers beyond our control in our mind that dictate out actions. Carl Jung studied this deeper, to the point where his studies started to diverge from Freud. Jung noticed that in a lot of stories, there were certain figures that kept reappearing. For example, the wise wizard, who appears in African stories, European stories, and Asian stories. Jung surmised that these stories represented a further deeper subconscious mind that was shared by all human beings. This was considered pseudoscience by others, while others considered it the holy grail. One of the later was Joseph Campbell, who went out of his way to write ‘A Hero With A Thousand faces’. This book observes stories from all over the world, and proves that there is some sort of connection between these stories. The only genre that corresponds with these findings is the fantasy genre. Fantasy adopts all the archetypes and creates stories that not only resonate with people of that culture, but with people from all over the world. So fantasy creates stories that connects with all human beings. 4. Fantasy Is The Best At Teaching Morals Also, fantasy is a unique genre because it helps teach children and people morals in the most direct way. There was a study conducted that found fiction literature assists people to develop a deeper EQ. Emotional intelligence. The reason for this was theory of mind, but sometimes, it can be a phenomenon known as cognitive closure. When people see something that they do not understand, or it does not fit into the things they know, they will either see it as a threat, or prematurely assume it is something else. This is because something that is unknown