User blog:Achrones150/Anti-Picture Challenge

Hello, Achrones here, and I want to present all of you with a little challenge.

First off, let me say that as a participant of FanFiction.Net (with the current alias of House Jr), that imagination is an effective tool when writing stories. The background of a setting, the outlook and personality of a character, and the interactions between two or more objects can be spawned in a unique manner with just the mind alone. From realistic to futuristic and back again, everything is yours to control. Pretty much anything can happen when you're at the helm of a particular piece of literature.

However, there is a self-applied limit - at least, concerning this Wikia in particular - and that's the use of pictures.

Let's admit it - unless you have a good Deviant Artist on your friends' list or payroll, you're going to be sifting through sites quite a while before you get images you want for your characters. And even then, they might not be what you had in mind. In searching for such pictures, one can eventually lose sight of what they originally had in mind for their characters and lessening creativity. It can also decrease desire to put character description into words, as one can simply place a picture in place of that and be done with it. It might not be much, but it's a bit detrimental in terms of original design.

So I'm going to present all of you users with this challenge - refrain from the use of image when making characters... at the very least, images that have been plucked off the search engine you use. If you have an artist at arms' reach, try to get them to craft pictures for you. This is not mandatory, but simply a test of wills in order to see who can stop being dependent on imagery and start putting their thinking skills to better use. You can even remove the imagery from existing characters - that is, if you can bring yourself to do so.

Have fun testing your own will!

-- Achrones, the Cold Sniper 20:08, April 9, 2012 (UTC)