...I might make myself revisit it. I'm having a hard time getting the right feeling of falling for that first bit of temptation to indulge her less human side vs. a true fall from grace vs. depressing tone.
I feel like it's not so much a fall as a bit of like.. when your heel catches the stair and you nearly faceplant but manage to yank yourself up. Bad, but not entirely damning.
I love the religious angle to this character, btw, it's done very well without being annoying or preachy or forced.
That is the prefect description for my goal on it, so I think it's going to have to get a revival for a wrap up. Which means figuring out how to do that...
That's great to hear, really. Sometimes I worry about all of the above with her because religion is such a loaded topic, but with her background it just wouldn't make sense for her not to have some kind of relationship with faith and trying to negotiate it.
Bah, if people bring their actual real life religion into RP they can suck my dick. It's writing, you need to stay true to the character's motivations.
Always, especially on the one that seem to just want to keep getting longer.
I'm more worried about how it can be a make or break weight, admittedly, but so far it seems to not conflict. Especially since it's helping me slow down any dramatic shift I might be tempted to do as she keeps encountering challenges to the faith or girl next door thing.
I think also there's a difference between changing on a surface level - like teen rebellion - and really being challenged and changing as a result, you know?
And now I've got more motivation again! Just as there's an epic Matthew post, too.
Yes! And that's exactly what I'm hoping for, because as tempting as the teenage rejection thing is, I think a deeper one makes better end results for reading/writing.
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Date: 2015-09-06 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-09-06 06:40 am (UTC)I love the religious angle to this character, btw, it's done very well without being annoying or preachy or forced.
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Date: 2015-09-06 06:47 am (UTC)That's great to hear, really. Sometimes I worry about all of the above with her because religion is such a loaded topic, but with her background it just wouldn't make sense for her not to have some kind of relationship with faith and trying to negotiate it.
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Date: 2015-09-06 06:48 am (UTC)Bah, if people bring their actual real life religion into RP they can suck my dick. It's writing, you need to stay true to the character's motivations.
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Date: 2015-09-06 06:53 am (UTC)I'm more worried about how it can be a make or break weight, admittedly, but so far it seems to not conflict. Especially since it's helping me slow down any dramatic shift I might be tempted to do as she keeps encountering challenges to the faith or girl next door thing.
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Date: 2015-09-06 07:00 am (UTC)I think also there's a difference between changing on a surface level - like teen rebellion - and really being challenged and changing as a result, you know?
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Date: 2015-09-06 07:03 am (UTC)Yes! And that's exactly what I'm hoping for, because as tempting as the teenage rejection thing is, I think a deeper one makes better end results for reading/writing.
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Date: 2015-09-06 07:07 am (UTC)I agree.
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Date: 2015-09-06 07:09 am (UTC)Excellent.