Cicadasulphur - *gnaws Viciously At Glow Stick*

hey sorry your boyfriend got stuck in a time loop. yeah hes trapped in a never-ending cycle of torment and suffering in a desperate attempt to save your life from a fated gruesome end. yeah hes going to have to come to terms with the fact that your death was unavoidable from the beginning and learn to cope with the grief. sorry.

the ocs?

characters who view themselves as tools/weapons first and people second... characters who martyr themselves for a cause because they think that's the only way they can be worth something... characters who push themselves past their breaking point again and again and again... characters for whom devotion and masochism are inseparable... characters whose self-sacrifice becomes self-annihilation...... what was my point again? i had a point. anyway.

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“Jasmin” 2008

IMac Aquariums

wow! they r crumpled

Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:

In general, I think "Is X out-of-character?" is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.

A better question, I believe, is "What would it take for Character to do X?" What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT'S where a potentially interesting story lies.

In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from "What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?" As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you've got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.

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