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Thursday, April 29, 2004
The DailyOtaku vol. 3
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Yesterday I finished up another DailyOtaku article and posted it on OtakuBoards. It's been about four months since the second article, so I figure the thread was well overdue for another addition. And I'm even thinking that, if I can come up with another good subject, I might write another one pretty soon here. Judging for the responses to the three so far, I think it could get quite the following if I actually wrote them periodically.
The problem is that it's hard to just sit down and write one whenever I want. While the articles aren't made up entirely of jokes -- they report on, for the most part, actual happenings -- that is the main focus of them. And it can be hard to maintain a high level of humor while also trying to maintain a balance between fact and fiction. I like to try and write the articles so that, at their best, the reader won't be too sure whether almost any given part is real or made up.
First off I have to have a good subject on which to "report." Next I have to make sure that I'm going to be able to make whatever I'm reporting on into a humorous event. And then I have to actually write the article, being sure to keep in mind what I talked about in the above paragraph. And then in addition to making sure things are actually funny, I also have to try and keep peoples' "quotes" as realistic as I can.
When all is said and done, it's kind of surprising how much I put into DailyOtaku articles, considering that I started off doing the first one as a joke to coincide with a supposed DailyOtaku cover that Charles mocked up and posted on his myOtaku site. At the time, I didn't even think about writing any more after that first one. Heck, I wasn't even planning on posting it on OtakuBoards at first; just posting a comment on Charles' myOtaku with a link to the text file.
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