MFontana's latest activity
-
MFontana reacted to CharlesEBrown's post in the thread My mom walked in while I was writing that scene. Help- Continuation of my last thread with
Like.
When I get into writing, I lose track of everything else for a while (one reason I stopped trying to write during breaks at work). When... -
MFontana replied to the thread Should I continue my story, or start a new one?.As a reference point, Utawarerumono did something similar. The first visual novel (re-released under the subtitle Prelude to the Fallen)...
-
MFontana reacted to LeilaniOtter's post in the thread You let your family/friends/co-workers/that guy down the street read your story or you don't because they might not understand with Like.
Oh, they'd understand. They just wouldn't read it or like it. 😊 😊 😊 Sadly, not much family left to even show my work to.
-
MFontana replied to the thread What do you think about diary-style stories?.Since I'm not sure if I'll ever actually get around to writing the story itself, I typed up all of my notes for it into a google-doc if...
-
MFontana reacted to AliceMoonvale's post in the thread What do you think about diary-style stories? with Like.
Sounds like a fun read, always a fan of that type of thing cause of all the specific games I've played. Some people get annoyed by all...
-
MFontana replied to the thread What do you think about diary-style stories?.It can definitely work in the horror genre. Especially for survival-horror video games (IE: Resident Evil, Alien: Isolation) and movies...
-
MFontana reacted to AliceMoonvale's post in the thread What do you think about diary-style stories? with Like.
I can understand that, it's not for everyone. I personally just love it so much that I wanted to turn it into a whole story and make it...
-
MFontana replied to the thread What do you think about diary-style stories?.As a full narrative, this kind of thing wouldn't appeal to me. Primarily because I'm not overly fond of reading narrative fiction...
-
MFontana reacted to CharlesEBrown's post in the thread What are your views about a story based on Indian Mythology in a modern setting? with Like.
Indian as in "Native American" or Indian as in "Based on stuff like the Bhagavad Gita, etc."? There was a two-chapter short story up...
-
Review swaps are inherently disingenuous. They are a form of "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" and create an expectation of a...
-
MFontana reacted to TheNonexistentOne's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
It's fine, I believe. I also write like this... But in past tense.
-
MFontana reacted to Ararara's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
Never seen it, don't think most people would recognize it for what you want it to mean, and I wouldn't use it
-
MFontana reacted to Jerynboe's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Like.
This is an entirely new concept to me and seems utterly unneeded given that the context already implies multiple people saying the same...
-
MFontana reacted to JordanIda's post in the thread Multiple people saying the same thing at once: thoughts about double-double quotes? with Haha.
If you can't find it in the Oxford Guide to Style or the Little Brown Handbook, it's post-literary newspeak balderdash. All 50,000...