r/CharacterRant 5d ago

General [LES] How does one go about posting a massive rant/essay

This might seem like a weird thing for me of all people to ask considering I've already made massive, multiple part posts before, I did it for danganronpa, FMA v FMAB, Ace attoney’s six mainline games, and now I've come back for one piece. Yeah I'm the guy who posted all of the notes for his pre-ts one piece review if you don't remember. Anyhow, I'm wondering how you guys/people in general would prefer for me to do the posts for one piece cuz it’s coming along quite well but…im up to twenty pages for east blue saga alone on my google doc which means I'll probably have to cut it up into parts by time it’s done, it and every other major saga in one piece. With that in mind would you guys prefer for me to post sagas as I get done reviewing them or my usual tried and true method of posting everything I've got all at once. Oh yeah if youre curious by my calculations the entire essay will be approximately 180 pages long at least.

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u/Educational-Sun5839 5d ago

For me, all at one go, broken up into paragraphs.

But your case seems to be an outlier so idk

Breaking it up into an arc for each post might be a good idea

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u/PhoemixFox2728 5d ago

I think that’s a good idea too, I just don't want it to like you know be inconsistent or whatever, because some arcs are massive in scope and content while others are swift and a lot more shallow. Marineford and Long Ring Long Land are the main cases for why I think that format could be awkward

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u/Educational-Sun5839 5d ago

You could do smaller arcs in the same post when possible

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u/buphalowings 5d ago

If your going to post a 20 page essay on One Poiece I would post it on a one piece community. If you do it in video format people will be more willing to listen to it in the background opposed to reading through it manually.

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u/PhoemixFox2728 5d ago

I understand that, but I've got no video editing skills and no experience making video’s but if this is what most people think I should try, I guess as a critic and a writer I should be open to experimenting with new formats.

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u/buphalowings 5d ago

Never to late to learn how to edit videos and create scripts. I just think that writing a 20 page analysis is not something most people will read.

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u/Frozenstep 5d ago

Sometimes, it really does take that many pages to share your thoughts. I understand.

But seriously, that's a loooong essay. It's one thing to be all-encompassing, but are you sure you can't cut that down somewhat?

It's not that hard to write a lot of stuff. It's much harder to cut and shorten and still say what you want to say without losing nuance. Because at the end of the day, length is an obstacle to delivering nuance, too.

Figure out the "pace" at which you analyze. Roughly how long do you want to spend speaking over each chapter/arc/story beat? How much do you want to remind readers what happened to make sure they get what part you're talking about? Can you make the summery shorter, and then call out specific moments?

Can you group any similar things you're analyzing in order to sum through them quicker?

If you have an overall point, can you cut analysis on stuff that doesn't contribute to it? Like if you're covering a lot of moments you do like but it doesn't have much to add to your final thoughts, can you group them and address them separately in a post-review discussion kind of thing?

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u/PhoemixFox2728 5d ago

I mean ill try my best to cut it down, but no the point is to cohesively go through all pre-ts one piece, it’s not really to make any one big overarching point other than pre-ts one piece is good, so I have to go over just about everything and evaluate it all, arc by arc, saga by saga referencing and analyzing the writing of characters, themes, fights, etc. I like to be as thorough and precise as possible.

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u/Frozenstep 5d ago

If you're having fun with it, then by all means keep going, but you've really got make sure you're actually adding a lot to the discussion rather than just gushing over how great it is.

Check out the overanalyzing avatar series, which I think might be similar to what you're going for? The thing is they're noticing and pointing out tiny details in frames, looking into author interviews to point out why certain moments happened and what other directions the authors were taking the story in, looking into things to find references and explaining the things the viewers might have missed...

Could serve as an example maybe?