Let’s make this a whole one month hiatus. Thanksgiving, birthdays, etc., etc. The good news is I’ve made a breakthrough for one part of the story that had stumped me for the longest time, and I can’t wait to introduce it. It will be a long-term change that will separate Hivebreak from Homestuck.



To fill in this updateless void, I’ll show you how a fanventure is created, so that you too can hold your own fanventure on Mspfanventures.com.



There are two main parts to making a fanventure: writing the narration, and drawing the art. First of all, I separate my pages on the word document with spaces and I number them, so I know just how many pages there will be in each update, and I can edit them as changes happen.



Writing the narration comes first.



Writing the narration is simple: write what will happen in the page, try to give it the sarcastic-but-serious flavor Homestuck has lost. Sometimes it can take one or two re-reads to perfect it the way you want. Since I have 250 pages written up beforehand, all I will have to do is proofread for a few months.



Part of the narration is dialogue, which is fun to write.



CG: THINK ABOUT WHAT THE CHARACTERS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO ACCOMPLISH BY TALKING TO EACH OTHER? ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO CHANGE THEIR ATTITUDES ABOUT EACH OTHER? ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO TELL A SECRET? ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO MAKE A PLAN TOGETHER?



AC: :33 < once you know that, help guide them through their conversation! dont worry about the typing quirk yet, you can go back and add it later, and it can really mess you up if you make a typo but cant see it because of the typing quirk.



And there we go, now you’ve written everything you need for one page. Now we have to format the page. There are lines of text that you have to copy and paste over the document to make pesterlogs and colors work. It’s not hard, I promise, it’s just a lot of busywork.



To open a pesterlog, use this line at before anything else: [spoiler open=“Show Pesterlog” close=“Hide Pesterlog”] and change what’s in the quotation marks to make it a “pesterog,” a “trypelog,” a “dialoguelog”, etc. At the end of the pesterlog for that page, you must paste [/spoiler] or the pesterlog won’t work.



Text on MSPFA is also centered, so use [left] under spoiler tag, and [/left] before the /spoiler tag, to make the text fall on the left.



Then, there is coloring the text. Each color has its own code, and I use this guide to pick up new codes as new colors appear in Hivebreak. [color=416600] this is an example of what the tag will look like; those 6 numbers will change for each color. You paste this code in front of each line of dialogue, and use [/color] at the end of the line, or when the color must switch into a different color.



A finished pesterlog will look like this, copied from Hivebreak itself:



[spoiler open=“Show Trypelog” close=“Hide Trypelog”]

[left]

[color=A10000]yes im still 0n the ship with him[/color]

[color=416600]:33 < well

:33 < are you sure youre ok?

:33 < sorry, 0k? [/color]

[color=A10000]im fine nepeta really i am[/color]

[color=416600]:33 < ok good

:33 < you had me worried! [/color]

[color=A10000]theres n0thing t0 w0rry ab0ut[/color]

[/left] [/spoiler]

Simple, simple, once you get the hang of it. It‘s a lot of copy and pasting.



Drawing the panel art.



After this is done, you have to draw the narration. I don’t have enough time to show the entire drawing process, because the drawing process will be different for everyone, because I use a mouse and MSpaint to draw and other people have tablets. But, this is an example of what my pictures look like while they are being created:



This was originally going to become the first panel for Hivebreak, but I scrapped most of it. Compare this to the finalized first page, and I’m glad I changed it.



You will need some kind of storage account to put images, because MSPFA is stupid in the fact that you cannot upload images directly to it. I use Deviantart St.ash, but anything will work. Once you have all of this completed, you can post it all to MSPFA.



Thank you for reading! If you have any other questions about uploading a fanventure, I can try to help.

