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[person4]

God, getting into Wakka's head is like pulling teeth. The next chapter of Unity should be up in a day or two, along with the second interlude chapter which is what's giving me so much trouble. It'd be so much easier if I could have one of the other characters be the viewpoint character and just have them observing and talking to him, since he's just about the character I have the least grasp on, but since most've the important stuff is internalized I can't do that.

I should see if I have any saves in either of the games near any big scenes of him. Or maybe start a new game of X and get through the first couple of nights on Besaid if I don't.

On the up side, the chapter that'll be coming with it has a few of the very first moments I thought of for the story, which I've been waiting to write all this time. So I'm really looking forward to getting that up.

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[auronlu.livejournal.com]

I hate that problem! By the way, if you have broadband, one thing you can do is join the vg_footage community and then download small-size but a fairly complete video captures of the whole danged game, divided into about 15 chapters. (It's got sidequests, alternate scenes like the different snowmobile scenes, and all the dialogue except maybe a few of the random, unimportant NPC responses when you're wandering the world.)

I used it a lot when I first started writing -- I'd play a chunk before every single writing session to get the rhythm of the characters' voices in my head.

[haku-kaen.livejournal.com]

I knew it would probably happen when I got to this part -- Wakka and my brain have never gotten along well -- but I'd hoped I could just push myself through it quickly, but no such luck. I think I'm just going to need to give up and post the two parts a week late, so I can give myself a day or two break for my brain to relax. It's got into a vicious circle of writer's block where the more I try to write, the more my brain can't string two sentences together, so I try even harder to force it and... yeah.

Thank you for telling me about that comm! That'll definitely be better than a game script for brushing up on a voice when I don't have a good save to go back to.