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Question of the Day - Part 4
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Pengi on July 23, 2012, 12:27:52 AM ---I've had that happen, too, where characters kind of take over. I like seeing how characters change and grow through hardship.
Sometimes I can't help but feel a bit like how God must feel seeing us go through stuff... Not to go all "uber Christian Brian" on y'all but I mean like we put the characters through crap because it helps them in the end, because the bigger picture that we see is how the whole story goes and honestly, I feel closer to God writing with that in mind than I do in any church service.
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That's a good point about God. We're all sort of the gods of our own stories. I feel that way when I'm struggling with whether to guide my characters in the direction I want them to take to suit my plans or let them have free will and choose their own direction.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Pengi on July 23, 2012, 12:39:04 AM ---That's always been a petpeeve of mine in stories - be they books, TV shows, or movies - when the character is untrue to themselves. It's the reason why most TV show pilots piss me off.
For example, The Big Bang Theory pilot episode.... the character Sheldon is well developed to be uninterested in women later in the series, something that starts pretty early on. Like in Episode 2. The opening scene for The BBT takes place with Sheldon and Leonard donating sperm at a sperm bank and Sheldon says something about being uncomfortable making the donation and Leonard says to him "you're practically a pro at this" and then later in the episode a comment is made about Sheldon having problems picking up women, but in a way that makes it sound like he's actually tried to. THAT IS SOOOO OUT OF CHARACTER. I literally can't stand the pilot for BBT because of it!!! LOL
Wow. I didn't know I was quite that irritated by it. :::crawls off soap box::::
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Pilots can be so awkward that way sometimes. You can tell the writers didn't have a clear picture of where the character was going at that point.
Pengi:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 23, 2012, 12:39:10 AM ---That's a good point about God. We're all sort of the gods of our own stories. I feel that way when I'm struggling with whether to guide my characters in the direction I want them to take to suit my plans or let them have free will and choose their own direction.
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I definitely felt "godlike" writing the end of Something Beautiful. I so, so, so, sooo badly wanted to make it end differently. I even went to the point of writing an alternate ending but it felt so fake and so contrived that I couldn't bring myself to even entertain the idea for more than a couple minutes. It felt a bit desperate, like I was actually losing something by letting the story play out the way it had to.
Of course if I delve into my own psychology with the personal purpose the story served, it makes total sense why I had that moment of hesitation. And why it couldn't end any other way.
I'm really having fun analyzing every aspect of SB and my psychology in it as I'm working on the OF. I'm amazed how much I'm learning about myself through it.
mare:
Why do you guys start with the bazillion questions when I am on my iPod and can't type all the answers without making a ton of mistakes? I'm going to wait to answer these until I am on my desktop. But thanks for the MINE mentions!! I am pretty sure that goes into my list of pivotal scenes lol
RokofAges75:
LOL We were chatty in here last night!
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