|
|
Post by rebeccajane on Nov 13, 2017 12:26:21 GMT
Writing my current story I’ve run into a slight issue and I wanted to ask you all something... Have you all ever run into a situation where you have a certain path one of your characters is on, and that something that will befall them that is important to the overall story arc... Then as you start writing, that character becomes more that just a character in a story, and now you start questioning what you had intended for them... At the same time I don’t see how to change from the original idea, and keep the story like I want it... Ugh... I’m a bit frustrated with myself at the moment lol
Becca
|
|
|
|
Post by superhellkitten on Nov 13, 2017 13:14:23 GMT
Err yes Becca. I thought very long and hard about writing the rape scene in the last Entwhistle Investigations that I wrote. It really was not an easy decision for me to make as I normally do not like writing such things and I knew it would have a profound affect on the character. In the end I decided that I needed to do it since it was the best way for the character to be forced to look at both his motives for doing what he was doing, but also to see the pain and suffering that someone who had experienced such a thing and couldn't tell anyone about it.
In the end I feel that a character needs to have these challenges thrown at them and needs to work their way through it and eventually (hopefully) come out the other side a stronger and better person.
I hope that helps.
Kat
|
|
|
|
Post by Tanya on Nov 13, 2017 15:19:47 GMT
After a while your characters take on a life of their own as you get to know and feel them. Then you might find that what you have always proposed for them suddenly seems massively out of their character and utterly wrong.
Great fun though.
|
|
|
|
Post by rebeccajane on Nov 13, 2017 15:20:30 GMT
Yeah it does Kat... Mine isn’t really a growth bit, but More along the idea your actions (no matter the intention) have consequences... While I also am a sucker for a happy ever after ending, I’m wanting to have a more realstic happily ever after... Its just that every character can’t be part of it, unless I make it so saccharinly sweet that people would shudder to read, it let alone how painful that would be to write...
As much as I don’t want to now, I’m going to keep the story mostly to the way I envisioned the concept...
Thanks Kat,
Becca
|
|
|
|
Post by rebeccajane on Nov 13, 2017 15:29:04 GMT
Tanya, you’re absolutely correct... While it’s not going to be out of character, it just feels cruel to me now that I’ve got to know and care about the character... I guess maybe I should stop before I give too much away (if I hadn’t already) there has already been som foreshadowing on the story so far..
I guess maybe instead of shooting for a happily ever after, I’m aiming to have a hopefully ever after... if that makes any sense whatsoever...
Becca
|
|
|
|
Post by Chrissy on Nov 13, 2017 16:53:05 GMT
'Hopefully ever after' is good, too  |
|
|
|
Post by superhellkitten on Nov 13, 2017 18:41:38 GMT
I prefer interesting to Happily Ever After to be honest Becca. Happily Ever After has been done to death, so my vote would be to go for the non saccharin version. I'm on a diet after all.
Kat
|
|
|
|
Post by Chrissy on Nov 13, 2017 18:54:16 GMT
Look, Skinnyribs... some of us need fattening up.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tanya on Nov 13, 2017 20:40:15 GMT
Happy is good and doesn't have to be so over sugared that you choke, as long as it feels right and you don't feel cheated.
Despite everything I am still a sucker for a happy ending and I get choked up at the last scene in The Crow (still my favourite film) where the hero and his beloved girlfriend are dead and she comes to lead him to whatever comes next.
|
|
|
|
Post by jessica on Nov 14, 2017 4:45:28 GMT
After a while your characters take on a life of their own as you get to know and feel them. Then you might find that what you have always proposed for them suddenly seems massively out of their character and utterly wrong. Great fun though. I agree with this 100%. In fact, in most of my stories, that's what happens. I was cleaning up some documents stored on my iPad and found an early draft of Turnabout, and the characters were the exact opposite of how they ended up. I read it and cringed. Just let the character take you where he or she wants to be. You'll have a better story for it. |
|
Debbie V
Junior Member
You can never have too many friends.
Posts: 62 
|
Post by Debbie V on Nov 14, 2017 18:17:05 GMT
All the time. And almost always to give them happier endings. Hell, I'd even had in mind to bump off one of my supporting characters not long ago. Instead, she's going to get her own spin-off lol. Then again, 'the power of friendship' is pretty much THE main theme of my stories, so grudges and archenemies wouldn't quite fit into that theme. For the most part.
|
|
|
|
Post by rebeccajane on Nov 15, 2017 13:06:01 GMT
I think I’m going to have to continue my original plan... I don’t really want to, but the way the story has been mostly emotionally driven, I don’t see a way I can change the eventual outcome, without making the entire story different. The character morphed a lot from my original concept, so think I’ll be a bit nicer about it... Still sucks though...
Becca
|
|
|
|
Post by Sam on Nov 15, 2017 21:24:25 GMT
Characters tend to take feet and go on a journey before they arrive at the destination you intended. Even with a story plan for Man and Woman I have already changed things in the draft,
|
|
|
|
Post by Anna on Nov 18, 2017 16:34:25 GMT
Sometimes you have to be cruel. There are things that we have to do to our characters that don't necessarily sit well but if it is advantageous to the story you might have to bite the bullet and do it. In the next few months we are going to see dear old Mary murdered in an Angels story which is tearing me apart but it is necessary to drive Dr Davenport over the edge.
As someone who cries at happy movies I'm always good for a saccharine moment
|
|
|
|
Post by rebeccajane on Nov 18, 2017 18:17:23 GMT
Ohhh... Mary’s passing is going to be so hard to read... Well this last chapter I posted brings a bit more foreshadowing to the demise of one of the characters... Since nature abhors a vacuum, I’m hoping that I’m able to bring something beautiful after their death..
Becca
|
|
