How Cypsis writes her reviews?

Hey, everyone! I know some people were waiting for a post last week, but I got to come home early for the Christmas and time just flew here (to be honest I had the draft even ready, but you'll get that one during the new year!). Also Cypsis was busy with her work and delayed posts, so she said I could take a rest for a week as she herself is busy also. Well I ended up doing preparations for next week's post.

Today's post will not be so much about dramas, but more about Cypsis. As I've been next to her all this time, I've constantly witnessed how she writes her reviews. So I decided to give you a sneak peak into her life:
 

Cypsis looks the same when she finds her notes between her school things
about 2-3 months after writing the review

Cypsis takes notes while watching drama/movie on a random paper and later loses it to unknown places. Usually she makes a new draft to her blog as soon as she has started watching a drama (fills in the basic stuff – country, format, genre, cast, rating) – as you can see she doesn’t fill in the synopsis, because she is too lazy to do it immediately. Or she tells me to fill it in (because she is too lazy to do it herself).

After finishing the drama/movie - when she is on the roll she will start writing the review a day after watching (‘cause she is a late-night watcher – she usually goes to sleep after watching a drama/movie. Or to YouTube to check out fanmade MV’s in case the drama/movie was awesome).

If she isn’t on the roll or the drama/movie wasn’t so awesome, then she will leave the draft alone for some time (sometimes for weeks as you already know).

The most important component that helps Cypsis write her reviews is MUSIC. Heck there isn’t a thing she does without music (trust me - I lived with her for 19 years).

Don't we all just love that site?

During the writing process she keeps checking sites like Dramawiki.com. Also some language sites because her mother tongue is a language with only ~1 million of speaking population, so obviously she needs language advise from time to time. While writing she also googles for other blogger’s reviews or for fans opinions – she’s curious what others thought about drama/movie.

Cypsis starts the review with introduction – usually immediately stating what her prejudices were and whether she liked it or not. Then she goes on to the main characters – the part that you probably can read from most of the drama-bloggers blogs but never the way Cypsis expresses herself.

By this point she has done quite a few stops in different sites and forgotten that she was writing a review.

She continues with most important side characters or characters worth mentioning – to me this is probably the most interesting part of Cypsis’s reviews because she quite often writes about characters no one else bothers to blog about. Well maybe I’m just biased (as I’m a volunteer-slave labour to her)

She also adds some extra lines about stuff related to the drama/movie (usually random things she liked or disliked or random facts she has dug out from the net or heard from me - 

all those snakcs around Hotaru -
Cypsis is the same whenever she has the chance

‘cause my brain can memorise pointless things about Japanese movie industry – which she somehow finds important to add to her review.)

By this point there has been at least 4 snack breaks – yeah the person at the header is Cypsis and she has the perfect figure, but that doesn’t stop her – if she were one of the seven sins: She’d be Gluttony.

While writing the main review, she sometimes jumps from the main review to the spoiler review. So as you can see the spoiler review is basically written while she is writing the main one. And that is the reason why she in the middle of the review has written “read it from the spoiler review”. Makes you question “Why bother with writing the spoiler review?”, right? Well Cypsis is a person who hates spoilers – no seriously she has dropped reading a book just because she heard a little spoiler.

Is there anyone who didn't feel the urge to take a screenshot of
this utterly cute scene in "Tokyo Bandwagon"?

When everything has been said in the main review, it is only 90% finished. When she switches into her lazy mode, she publishes the 90% finished review. So what’s the missing part? PICTURES! Cypsis likes taking screenshots but only when the scene is really cute one! But random screenshots like a character picture etc – not her style. Eventually she adds the pictures - usually after I've reminded it for like 100s of times.

After the review is published or while Cypsis is having trouble with taking the pictures, the review goes through “the language check” – in other words I re-read the review and make some changes when needed (at times she is too lazy to do the checking herself and she has a habit of writing a sentence and changing the words in the middle so in the end the sentence looks like this: “She did not actions were unbelievable.” ).

If she does that in one row, it takes 2-4 hours. As you can see – it’s not so easy after all for her, but she still keeps writing new and new reviews. If she doesn't feel like it.. well we just have to wait for a month or so :) And then it starts all over again with a new review :D 

Merry Christmas!!!