A rule of writing
Sep. 1st, 2006 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterPut your characters in situations that rip them apart. And rip them apart some more.
- Sherry Thomas, On fundamental rules of writing
I think this is something that I've internalised over the past year or so. The downside is, I have a lot of traumatised characters.
(On the other hand, I think this is why I adore movies like Equilibrium and Once Upon A Time In Mexico so much. Set up a successful character. Rip them apart utterly. And twist pins in the wounds until the diamond core emerges and smacks you in the face with a pair of pistols.)
- Sherry Thomas, On fundamental rules of writing
I think this is something that I've internalised over the past year or so. The downside is, I have a lot of traumatised characters.
(On the other hand, I think this is why I adore movies like Equilibrium and Once Upon A Time In Mexico so much. Set up a successful character. Rip them apart utterly. And twist pins in the wounds until the diamond core emerges and smacks you in the face with a pair of pistols.)
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:13 pm (UTC)LadyGent in my icon - Death in Elisabeth as played by Maki Ichiro in the 1996 Takarazuka Snow Troupe production. No-one's more surprised than me. I thought it'd just be a PWP to get it out of my head, plus a few glimpses of prior meetings to establish the attraction. Now I have a nine-part series chronicling Vlad's emotional journey through his ongoing love affair with Death. Which... explains a lot about him, really.(Not to mention small neat things, like the fact Death has 10 angelic helpers, who only operate as an ensemble in the musical, but have developed distinct personalities and varying degrees of crushes on Vlad. It's been consuming my brain for the past few weeks, but
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:49 pm (UTC)I'm almost done with writing part 3 out of nine or so, with about 3 thousand words per chapter. Vlad's idea of a romantic date is, apparently, walking through a forest of impaled corpses. It's a good thing his date doesn't mind.
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:57 pm (UTC)But yay for it causing good plot ideas!
I'm very excited to read this when you post it. Demented romance is so fun!
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Date: 2006-09-01 08:50 pm (UTC)self-insertsxharcaters so much..... funnily enough, another a lot more dire 'äverse hurts a lot less because I ahve more distance from the characters, I suppose.(no subject)
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Date: 2006-09-01 09:16 pm (UTC)I don't think that........
Date: 2006-09-02 12:43 am (UTC)Re: I don't think that........
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Date: 2006-09-02 08:12 am (UTC)Could she possibly have been thinking of us fanfic writers? XD
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