2795 When It Rains It Pours.
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Versions of this interaction kept getting written in and out of the scene because these two have a very manic energy together. They shift gears quickly and can be unpredictable in any moment. I try to write the characters how they want to be written more than how I want to write them, which may sound insane to someone who doesn’t do creative things like this. I assure you that you can channel a character on some level and make them feel more natural, or you can drive a character like a machine and make them a mouthpiece that begins to feel less alive. There’s a lot of ways to write and this just happens to be mine. Many successful writers move characters around like chess pieces, without expanding upon their personalities very much, and do just fine. This is just how I do it. Since I’m kind of middling in my success maybe my way isn’t all that good. It feels the most correct for me though.
I felt very creatively blank this month. Maybe it was all the goings on in the news, maybe I’m just getting old and slowing down, I don’t know, but since I wrote most of the last few pages all in one long go I didn’t have to rely on being able to call up that spark like I usually do. It was fortunate in a way. I didn’t have to stress about things so much while I was dealing with outside forces. The cleaning I’ve been doing recently have kicked up a lot of dust and reduced the quality of my sleep. Even with two air purifiers working at once they haven’t been able to keep up. On top of that the cold weather requiring the constant use of the furnace hasn’t helped either. It all gives me that empty feeling behind my eyes where no ideas come from.
When the productivity of your entire operation comes down to you it gets a little draining at times like this. Perhaps March will be more creative and productive. This short moth made it seem like it was coming up very fast.
Oh well, no point in worrying about it now. I hope you have a nice Monday and will come back on Wednesday to see where this whole thing is heading. Until then, safe travels.
EDIT: A couple of people have been accidentally posting comments on the links post. I’ve disabled comments on it so that it can no longer be done. If your comment has disappeared that’s why.
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She really is still just the worst.
It’s fun to see Evrina, acting: fun, sexy, happy, + silly!
That’s fun! :D
Erina has . . . clothes that fit Jess. . . in a hope chest. . . .
Yeah. Ok. Nothin’ to see here, I’m sure. . . .
This may be a bigger surprise kiss than Maddie gave Reggie.
Ha! I was so riveted on the faces during the kiss I missed Evrina’s hand.
Don’t worry, I have found the same phenomenon when writing stories, and EVERY good author I’ve ever read has commented the same; the characters, at the very least eventually, WANT to be written one particular way or another.
Yeah, I think it’s commonly found in writing advice books and whatever. Most stories really are characters just being themselves. If you look at something like Star Trek, it wasn’t uncommon to see Spock and Kirk end up in the same situations, but approach them completely differently because they are different people with different ideas and beliefs and motivations, even if they both wanted the same ends. That’s what made it fun to watch. If your characters are just their functions, like “The lawyer who lawyers and the spy who spies,” that’s not really going to be all that engaging.
I know an author who says her plot planning consists of “throw the character(s) into the worst possible situation for them and see what they do.”