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Time to get back to "The Sometimes Sword".

So like I said in a previous post, it's been a while since I did anything meaningful in my book. With college, a blog (yeah, I know), and the odd video game, my free time has been too full. So out goes the video games (except maybe the weekends), and I think I'll cut my blog posts down to one every other day or so.


On another note, Writing Excuses had an excellent cast today. Recorded at Worldcon, they had a transsexual (female to male) author on as a guest to talk about gender roles, specifically in fantasy. It was actually pretty interesting, and I found some things that I'd like to modify about my own work. Take a listen.


Tomorrow I will try to make a full post, subject unknown. Do you have anything you want to talk about?

3 comments:

  1. Hi!
    I'm new to your blog and I'm having fun reading your older posts. There is one thing that I would like to know: when you are writing do you ever get a case of guilty conscience because you made your characters go through a rough time?
    I think that's one of the (oh-so-many) reasons I could never write a novel... I think i'd get too attached to the characters and act like a mother-hen.
    How do you deal with this? Or it doesn't happen to you at all?

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  2. Welcome Alailanible! I'm glad you have been enjoying my ramblings. Sometimes I wonder if the things I write make even a little sense.

    In answer to your question, yes, I do sometimes feel a little guilty about the things I do (or think about doing) to my characters. Let me rephrase that. I don't so much feel guilt; it's more along the lines of fondness for the character making me dislike the thought of them dying. There are times that I feel like a character should die, but I can't seem to let them go. In my first, unfinished book, there were several necessary deaths that I actually prevented because I grew to like the character too much. It was one of the many problems with the beastly thing.

    Beyond death of a character, I actually take pleasure in putting characters through the ringer. I forget who said it, but a famous author has been quoted more times than I can count as saying something along the lines of, "Have dogs chase your character up a tree, then throw rocks at them. Then set the tree on fire". (That's paraphrased heavily.)

    The worse the character has to endure, the stronger they are when they overcome it. I imagine that God might feel the same way (though I doubt he purposefully does bad things to us). It's very satisfying to me to see this take place (I'm also a little morbid).

    There are never reasons why someone can't write, only obstacles meant to be beaten. If you feel a story needs to come out of you, do it!

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  3. Thank you for answering my question! :)

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