About primitive placement in RTK

[Suisei]

I'm kind of having trouble here about where to place the primitives in Kanji. I do know the parts but I keep writing it out wrong on paper. Are there any ways to do this? It may be difficult to say where to place things in stories , so...I'm not sure. Do you guys have any advice on this?

[phreadom]

I generally tried to get a feel for it in my stories.

For instance in one I kept drawing the soil primitive in the wrong place, so I slightly reworded it to "kicking soil on the computer" or something like that to remind me that it was next to it, not under it or over it... so I was kicking soil from the side (even though later they remind you to be careful about using words like "kicking" because it might confuse you about adding a primitive that doesn't belong... but it works for me so far).

Sometimes I have a little trouble, but usually I'll remember it without having to put it in the story at all... sometimes I have trouble and need to modify the story a bit (like for "stinking" 臭 , I kept drawing 自 under 大 instead of over it... so I used "nose on the stinking St. Bernard" or something to remind me that the "nose" went on top of the "St. Bernard")

Usually for the left/right positioning, I just get a feel for which is the "strong" primitive etc.

I'm only on #320 myself... so I can't exactly give much advice.

[Suisei]

I generally tried to get a feel for it in my stories.

For instance in one I kept drawing the soil primitive in the wrong place, so I slightly reworded it to "kicking soil on the computer" or something like that to remind me that it was next to it, not under it or over it... so I was kicking soil from the side (even though later they remind you to be careful about using words like "kicking" because it might confuse you about adding a primitive that doesn't belong... but it works for me so far).

Sometimes I have a little trouble, but usually I'll remember it without having to put it in the story at all... sometimes I have trouble and need to modify the story a bit (like for "stinking" 臭 , I kept drawing 自 under 大 instead of over it... so I used "nose on the stinking St. Bernard" or something to remind me that the "nose" went on top of the "St. Bernard")

Usually for the left/right positioning, I just get a feel for which is the "strong" primitive etc.

I'm only on #320 myself... so I can't exactly give much advice.

Ah, I kind of understand. Maybe I should just put The X is over the X but that may be kind of hard to stick or something. :/ Maybe I should just brute force it or something. > <

[phreadom]

Ah, I kind of understand. Maybe I should just put The X is over the X but that may be kind of hard to stick or something. :/ Maybe I should just brute force it or something. > <

Are you still having trouble?