I feel like in order to make a good spotlight story you have to be more than good at description… also some people use spotlight for just a scene like in this story I read she used spotlight for the football game and I think that was really smart. But other than that you just have to be really detailed about everything.
A good spotlight story wouldn’t just be
Person 1 “Omg Kaylee look at that”
Person 2 “What is it?”
Person 1 “It’s a guy!”
It would have to be more like this
Person 1 “Kaylee look at that tall, handsome, figurine guy standing by the chocolate Fountain”
Person 2 “Oh my gosh!”
Person 1 (Narrated) “This guy is almost as tall as a tree! I’m surprised he doesn’t have any cats stuck up there. With his Blue spiky hair, and his devilish smirk, and the way his emerald green eyes shine in the light”
Something like that.
Some times there would have to be a lot of narrating which really makes it a little confusing. And also the animations are not really expressive as they would be if you could see full body!
What I really like about it is that it brings out the more descriptive side of people. Especially when describing scenes because in Full Body ones the Author may just be like “Oh I don’t need to describe it they see the background” But with Spotlight they really depend on the describing part which really has a plus side and a negative side depending on the Author!
I’ve already answered this one, but honestly when you don’t know how to make it interesting. Some people just like to use spotlight because they think “Oh this is SO much easier” but then in reality when they start coding it’s harder than they thought so they give up and just go with what they have…