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diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml index 922cc2e..72c298c 100644 --- a/config.toml +++ b/config.toml @@ -21,19 +21,20 @@ indexContent = """ <div id="my-intro"> <h1>Yo doodz I am pro hacker Vidhu Kant</h1> <p> - Yo. I’m Vidhu Kant. I’m a hobbyist web developer, and the self proclaimed CEO of Weeb Developerz.<br> + Yo. I’m Vidhu Kant. I’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’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’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’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 “Company” <em>Weeb Developerz</em> was coined because I’m a weeb and a web developer so Weeb Developerz, the most hipster developer group. + I like to joke about being the “CEO” 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’s still a long list of my hobbies that stick around. I hope I’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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84018ad --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +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 Binary files differindex cefb1f3..ce268d6 100644 --- a/static/images/vidhukant.webp +++ b/static/images/vidhukant.webp |
