RE: Non-creationists, show me your creations!!!
March 27, 2015 at 8:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 8:31 am by Alex K.)
(March 27, 2015 at 8:04 am)Nope Wrote: The protaganist is trying to organize her dead friend's papers, recordings and newspaper clippings so she can get finish the book he wanted published. It is a horror/fantasy set in modern NC. I would describe it as a dark fairy tale
One of the hardest things for me to do is to let the character be a jerk now and then. We all have jerkish moments. My character has certain flaws that would make her more likely to lash out in certain situations but writing those scenes make me wince
Have you written a virtual biography for her? If you know her backstory, and she has some trauma, conflict or other things in her life (maybe there were some bad things in her childhood, and memory of that triggers certain reactions), then her sometimes having jerk-like reactions to things might just come naturally to you, out of where she came from, and still read consistent and not as arbitrarily put in by the author to generate conflict. Your wincy feeling probably comes from the fact that you cannot relate to your own character on an emotional level, and that can't possibly make for good prose. If you manage to really know her, ideally you'll be able to really feel it and then write the reaction for her without it feeling awkward.
As far as creating things goes, I'm also mostly busy writing right now, but non-fiction (pop science).
I've started building a single-ended valve headphone amplifier years ago and never have the time to finish it! It's gonna be awesome, and I'm looking forward to finally getting on that.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
