It's clear that you have been putting in extra effort with your new chapters, not to knock your older chapters, but you can tell a better story without having to fit it into a caption! Honestly you under estimate your own abilities; the posing for the sexy scenes in the last chapters was exceptional. looking forward to reading more
Also, naw man, knock my old chapters 100%! XD
If I’m being completely honest, first and foremost, I see myself as a writer. I used to write ALL THE TIME (both fanfiction and my own original stories). Recently most (read: all) of my storytelling efforts have been going into my Skyrim stories, and unfortunately when I made the jump from Loverslab to Tumblr (as my primary posting hub) I fit the way I wrote to match Tumblr’s format. INSTEAD, I should have altered my screenshots to match the way I want to write. That’s what I’m doing now essentially.
With the former I had to summarize and constrain my thoughts into 200 characters per image. What was encompassed in that 200 limit was:
Denoting who is speaking AND how they’re speaking (actually talking versus thinking vs talking telepathically)
Any actions that occurred (such as sighing and shrugging)
Taking the following image into account, I can show you how much more freeing (storytelling-wise) it is to make stories in this new style:
For starters, that narration box in the upper left hand corner takes up 138 characters BY ITSELF!
The upper word bubble uses 314 characters
And the bottom word bubble uses 297 characters
That totals up to 749 characters, which I would have had to take 4 separate shots to get the same result if I were still utilizing captions.
I get to use ZERO characters to denote who is talking AND how they’re talking, because the reader can tell who is talking based on where the word bubble is coming from and what it looks like. They can ALSO tell HOW they’re speaking based on how the word bubble looks.
I can also show sound effects and noises and don’t have to worry about any kind of limitation other than visual clarity. So yeah... I can definitely say that it’s EXTREMELY easier (and visually more appeasing to be honest) to tell stories with this new format.
As for the whole underestimating my abilities thing... I honestly don’t know when something looks all that good when I’m taking “sexy” shots, which is why I usually just avoid doing so. :\
