I haven't yet managed to let a character die, for just that reason. A close call, just once, felt bad enough already. Indeed, characters start to become alive, become individuals. You have an idea about them - they don't care. They do what they want, not what you want. It's crazy. At times, I am no longer the author, but merely the journalist watching the story and the development of the characters over time. "Guys, it's 100k words now. Just saying, because you just created a mess of a situation. How do you want to resolve that, ever?"
"They do what they want, not what you want". Absolutely. I was talking about this with a non-friend writer, Yesterday, and just couldn't find a way to explain this. "But you invented him!", he said. "And you know what he's going to do! What do you mean, he "guides you"?
I really don't know. Yes, I kinda sorta know that the objective of this scene is advancing X part of the story, but how that comes about, or how that affects other parts of the story that haven't even been created, is a mystery.
I get the stenographer-of-my-character feeling, a lot. That's the magic, the beauty and the pleasure of writing to me: connecting with this transcendent Logos and letting it flow through me.
I haven't yet managed to let a character die, for just that reason. A close call, just once, felt bad enough already. Indeed, characters start to become alive, become individuals. You have an idea about them - they don't care. They do what they want, not what you want. It's crazy. At times, I am no longer the author, but merely the journalist watching the story and the development of the characters over time. "Guys, it's 100k words now. Just saying, because you just created a mess of a situation. How do you want to resolve that, ever?"
"They do what they want, not what you want". Absolutely. I was talking about this with a non-friend writer, Yesterday, and just couldn't find a way to explain this. "But you invented him!", he said. "And you know what he's going to do! What do you mean, he "guides you"?
I really don't know. Yes, I kinda sorta know that the objective of this scene is advancing X part of the story, but how that comes about, or how that affects other parts of the story that haven't even been created, is a mystery.
I get the stenographer-of-my-character feeling, a lot. That's the magic, the beauty and the pleasure of writing to me: connecting with this transcendent Logos and letting it flow through me.