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Andrew wrote:Love the presentation! Best of luck with it.
Andrew wrote:Hopefully Siakim turns out much the way he has in real life!
Phil89 wrote:Atlanta are an interesting team choice. Do you plan on keeping this veteran group together or following what the Hawks did in real life?
I agree with you about writing articles. I always have trouble staying focussed when I'm doing them and it always takes me ages to finish them.
Unlucky start to the season. Embiid is a beast and hard to contain at the best of times. You'll bounce back
seaboh13 wrote:I really wanted Dwight to have a bounce-back season with Atlanta. Hopefully he can turn it around. I always run pick and rolls with him, just habit from being a Magic fan over the years, Nelson, Howard pick and roll and throw it out to shooters. Millsap fits so well with him. I forgot how good this roster was, they had such a disappointing season IRL. Nice layout BTW.
spiderxx7 wrote:Hey man, great to see someone inspired by my format! Will try to follow. Just my two cents, something I've learned with the years, try not to write a lot. More so if the size of the text is small. Less is more some times
wdt92 wrote:Hey man, I'm glad to see you back! I appreciate the advice, though it is kind of funny seeing you saying that after reading your 2011 San Antonio series not that long ago. The first five pages of that series were full of you defending not writing less.
wdt92 wrote:I definitely appreciate the advice though, and actually, I have been trying to shorten the writing down for a little while now. If you have time sometime, I do have a question with that.
How did you find yourself "able" to write less? I'll explain what I mean. A lot of times I actually feel like I'm leaving information out from the story when I try and cut it down. So I'll go back and add a few details here and there to make everything fit nicely. Feel realistic and feel right. Then I find it is actually longer than my original draft.
I noticed your writing shrunk down through that 2011 series and I recall you having a pretty precise and ideal length in the Toronto one you did not too long ago. Was there anything you did to help make the transition feel just as realistic as you shrunk down on the length of the writing?
spiderxx7 wrote:"Not that long ago", man, it's been eight years. How time flies! Looking back at that, I just wanted to make it as detailed as possible after all those failed attempts... I started like 50 threads. I was really frustrated with myself. It looks pretty neat right now, but man, it was tough. I wouldn't recommend it, specially right now, with less and less time to sit down and do it. I was 20 years old and almost never leaving my house
spiderxx7 wrote:I wasn't "able" to write less, I just "forced" myself to write less. The forum itself also forced me to do it, kind of.
I remember I was trying to post a wallpaper and the forum limited its dimensions. So I began to investigate what were the maximum dimensions allowed here and it's 800p wide. I wasn't sure on height, so I just went with 800p as well (I will go up to 900p if I need some extra space but no more than that so the forum does not resize it automatically). I then began writing on those dimensions on Photoshop.
On to what details I would leave out, first I'd write on the highest scorers/rebounders, a game winning shot/block, did I deserve that win? Did I shoot poorly/great? Something like that, but keeping it simple (you can read some of my Raptors recaps but I can see you did that already) If I needed to write something more, I would look at the team stats and wrote on the biggest disparities. And if I needed some extra space, I had those around the league / standings / game notebook things on a different column.
Send me a PM if you need any other tips. I will try to log in more often.
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