changed homepage text a bit

3 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml
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--- a/config.toml
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@@ -21,19 +21,20 @@ indexContent = """
 <div id="my-intro">
   <h1>Yo doodz I am pro hacker Vidhu Kant</h1>
   <p>
-    Yo. I&rsquo;m Vidhu Kant. I&rsquo;m a hobbyist web developer, and the self proclaimed CEO of Weeb Developerz.<br>
+    Yo. I&rsquo;m Vidhu Kant. I&rsquo;m a hobbyist web developer, and I have a confsession.
+    <strong>I was born at a very young age.</strong><br>
 
     I sometimes make videos, though I haven&rsquo;t settled down on a theme yet..
     My Odysee channel is called <a href="https://sns.mikunonaka.net/odysee">MikunoNaka</a> (and here's the <a href="https://sns.mikunonaka.net/youtube">YouTube</a> mirror for the non pro hackers out there).<br>
 
-    Web development somehow has become my main thing but really I just code whatever I like.<br>
-    And I&rsquo;m extremely efficient at picking up side projects, writing spaghetti code, and dropping the project after getting frustrated...
+    I code whatever I like, but I call myself a web developer because I mostly find myself doing full stack web dev stuff..<br>
+    And I&rsquo;m extremely efficient at picking up side projects, writing spaghetti code, and dropping the project after getting frustrated!
   </p>
 
   <h1 id="about-me">About Me</h1>
   <p>
     I like libre software, functional programming, customizing stuff and all the weeaboo garbage Japan can offer.
-    My &ldquo;Company&rdquo; <em>Weeb Developerz</em> was coined because I&rsquo;m a weeb and a web developer so Weeb Developerz, the most hipster developer group.
+    I like to joke about being the &ldquo;CEO&rdquo; of <em>Weeb Developerz</em>, a developer group for weebs and (primarily web) developers.
     Apart from programming, I pick up new interests way too quickly and drop them at the same speed,
     but there&rsquo;s still a long list of my hobbies that stick around. I hope I&rsquo;d be able to talk about all of them on my blog.
   </p>
diff --git a/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md b/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md
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+---
+title: "You can't have a good story without great characters"
+date: 2022-09-29T11:29:05+05:30
+---
+
+I am no writer myself, but I love stories, and I think I can *somewhat* critique them.
+And one of my main complaints with most stories (whether it be a book, or an anime, etc) is the story being
+too *steriotypical*. Nowadays, you read one book, pick up another from the same genre and there's a very good
+chance it's just a clone of the previous one you read. To some extent it's acceptable because you can't write a
+story based on nothing, can you?
+
+I believe you cannot completely fabricate a story. Take the fantasy/time travel genre for an example,
+you totally can predict what's going to happen most of the time. It's honestly really overdone. I think not being predictable is also 
+a very important part of writing, but I won't be covering that. What really matters is how the characters
+react to something, and how the reader/viewer reacts to *that*.
+
+Let me explain, a good story is one that keeps the reader engaged. You need to seek a reaction out of them.
+To do that, your characters need to be *very* plausible. If your characters aren't well written, it really doesn't
+matter how good your plot is. Every reader knows what's going to happen in a romance novel, but we still read them.
+Why is that? Because the selling point of a story is not what's gonna happen, but how the characters are going to 
+react to it. If you have a half assed, not well written character, no one's going to like the story.
+But, if your character is very well written, and very detailed and plausible, that's going to make the reader
+sad when the character is sad, or happy when the character is happy. Such a character 
+makes it easier for the reader to imagine the character as a real person.
+
+And I think that's the most important part of a story. If the reader reads the story and feels nothing,
+it's absoluely useless. Imagine if in a story a character dies but it doesn't matter because the reader
+just didn't bond with the character. That'd be a truly boring story.
+
+It's just something I've been thinking about, so I thought I'd share this,
+but if you're into writing, make sure that your characters are extremely well written.
+Emotional attachment with the reader is extremely important (probably applies to all kinds of 
+creative work!), which seems to be overlooked nowadays.
diff --git a/static/images/vidhukant.webp b/static/images/vidhukant.webp
index cefb1f3..ce268d6 100644
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