u/Rook_Steele

Trying to find how to keep a scene contained in a single passage until bigger decisions have been made or a the player moves to a new location. I could obviously just write them out normally but then the dialogue is just all revealed immediately, meaning I can't add choices for the player.

Is there a way to add choices that will reveal dialogue in the current passage instead of moving to a new one?

For a long time now my art, the only interest I really have, has been suffering. I just don't enjoy working on art anymore and as my skills worsen (because I'm not using them) I take that as evidence I shouldn't be doing it. I've come to the conclusion that it's because I view it as a waste of time, that something like maths or a career in science would have been the way to go, despite not having any interest in either of them at any point. I've read books and watched classes on how to improve and yet I never view myself as good enough or serious enough to make it work.

Sometimes I find myself drawing for a whatever reason (maybe I'm making a quick joke drawing to poke fun at someone) but as soon as I start to think about it, my brain goes into overdrive, it overthinks every detail, my hand stops making lines correctly and suddenly this joke drawing that should be fun stops being fun.

To make it worse I think about drawing all the time, I have so many ideas that would be fun to draw out, but as soon as I try I am of course not good enough because I haven't drawn in weeks but then I don't get time to draw because I'm so hung up on my inability to draw, so I just end up spiralling. And I'd say it's definitely gotten worse recently as before I would get 50-60% the way done but now I can't even draw a sketch without immediately thinking about how I will never improve - even with evidence to the contrary I can't break this loop.

So how do I stop this overthinking, how do I stop viewing drawing as the simultaneously the biggest waste of time and the most important thing ever?

TLDR: I can't work on drawing anymore because I view it as a waste of time, and that I should be doing other things that I have zero skills or interest in despite it being all I think about, and I take even the silliest of drawings way to seriously if I'm given even a second to think about it.