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Got anymore tips for people who might make blogs based on this updating concept story?

I’m certainly no expert so take me with a grain of salt. Here’s what managed to come into my brain

No one wants to just jump straight into reading dialogue or paragraphs, especially starting out when there’s no attachment yet. When you’re writing a fic, this problem is handled based on your writing style. When using the format of the blog, this problem is handled by the “updates.” A poster about a wanted murderer will do more for your set up than a conversation about it. “Show don’t tell” as they say.

In addition, it’s actually a good thing to not have too many details, as letting people fill in the blanks is not only fun, but now you’re allowing them to slowly get more invested without doing anything

Fleshing out details, at least for my purposes, is left to the asking system. The cycle is the set up with an update, a reader’s intrigue to fill in the blank, then maybe they ask something based on that, then a detail is fleshed out. Then it’s all under progression of the story itself.

Another thing with dialogue, is that if you’re making an actual story with the “blog” format, I would absolutely not stick with pure dialogue. It has the potential to get stale fast, and you’re limiting yourself. There’s a direct reason why I took half a month before I really eased into the more dialogue focus format

The juxtaposition of short updates into dialogue into full on scenes is a reflection of character change, and wordlessly (well, I suppose not “wordlessly,” haha) expresses the rising of stakes

Having the ability to change between scenes, dialogue, and shorter updates makes pacing infinitely easier. Plus, humour then isn’t just limited to “incorrect quotes” like things, cause you can play with perception and point of view and even images

Please absolute do not answer every question in your inbox. It’s tempting, but for the sake of story, if that is your priority anyhow, don’t. Because 1) You don’t want to ruin your story details/pacing because of one much too smart anon. 2) Listen, sometimes asks are just useless...it’s kind of mean, but...if it’s not funny, and you can’t find a way to make it into something useful for the story (and it’s not an ooc type of situation), or even if it IS funny, but it ruins the tension or mood of something, then just don’t bother ruining your pacing for it.

Also save asks as drafts for later, hell take them out of context if you want to make them work for a later plot point. No need to answer them all at once, in fact, don’t. It’s like I said in the first point: asks are an important device for your plot, so exploit them and ignore them and save them and pace them to your pleasure.

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