I have read around and it seems that alot of you make your own stories for RTK. What would be the best way to see those stories here on this forum? I entered some keywords in the search function, but didin't really get what I was looking for. I am only 3 days in with 50 kanji memorized. I was doing 20/day, but could only do 10/day as I kept stopping so that I can try to come up with a story that made sense. Take the "rising up" kanji for example. What the hell kind of story is that? Same goes for the measuring cup story. I can't really expect to remember those ramblings, but at the same time the character doesn't really look like anything that I would be able to come up with a story for either.

Anyone have a link or something. I would truly appreciate it.

The "study" section on the main site is where all the user-created stories are. Of course, you won't find anything for the primitives, but that shouldn't be a problem. You use them so much that you don't really need a story anyway.

Not for nothing, but I go about it something like this-

I read what Heisig says
I pull up the character on the study page (http://kanji.koohii.com/study)
And I create a story using someone else's idea with people and places that I know. Putting faces, characters, and locations into it that are personal to me increases my recall drastically.

InTransition Wrote:Take the "rising up" kanji for example. What the hell kind of story is that? Same goes for the measuring cup story.

Have you looked at

http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/measuring%20box
http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/rise%20up

?

I think the original poster might not yet have found the "Reviewing the Kanji" portion of the site? Try posting on the link in the upper-right part of your screen that says "Go to Reviewing the Kanji". Then you can enter the name or number of the kanji you're looking for. You'll typically find a couple dozen user-created stories, including a couple relatively popular ones at the top of the page. I do think it's best to try to create your own story for each kanji before you look at other peoples', though.

My personal finding was that as long as I had a sentence or two that ties all the elements together in some quasi-logical ordering it didn't really matter much what the story was. Most people will disagree with me.

I have found that remembering the kanji is about 10% quality of your story and 90% how many times you have seen it in SRS. There are a bunch of kanji that I have really horrible stories for but still write fine every time.