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(DIR) Post #Ab8AA1RHNqLuoBJSDI by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T13:45:09+00:00
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100% Kashim.He's a character who I discovered while writing my first novel, Salt, Sand, and Blood. He narrates that book, featuring in three separate chapters (in which the PoV swaps to first person from third limited).I reused Kashim after deciding to abandon SSaB. Now, he features in the Wand Smoke series as a side character in the story series spinoff, Tales from the Labyrinth. He is also getting his own set of stories titled Discourses.Because I write Wand Smoke mostly in first person, Kashim's stuff is extremely challenging. He's supposed to be a hyper eloquent bardic barbaric philosopher type. That means the prose for his stories pushes me beyond my abilities constantly. I'm almost never satisfied with the rhythm and rhyme, let alone my attempts at layered implied metaphors (I end up relying on rap-style simile more often).
(DIR) Post #Ab8B5ECMcIzEt4c7ua by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T13:59:21+00:00
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That would be Zeanna’s long lost cousin Quazanna. I thought it would be simple to write a polar opposite to Zeanna, she became far more difficult to write when she decided to truly be evil and embrace her stance as a Time Bandit.
(DIR) Post #Ab8B5QMNOu7sbbOIBU by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T13:59:32+00:00
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That would be Zeanna’s long lost cousin Quazanna. I thought it would be simple to write a polar opposite to Zeanna, she became far more difficult to write when she decided to truly be evil and embrace her stance as a Time Bandit.
(DIR) Post #Ab8FD1CNEX8QhbaZCy by antonyobeara@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T14:08:24+00:00
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The Wife in Clara was unpleasant to write. She was such a toxic and selfish person that getting into her mindset made me feel gross.
(DIR) Post #Ab8FD2WyHRCmpmEWx6 by authorbrookeshaffer@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T14:22:14+00:00
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Cassius, and thank God I only have three chapters left to write for him. It was fun while there was still a story to tell for him, why he's evil and what he's done with it. Right now, though, he is in the last stretch before his rather unfortunate and painful death, and it's a bit like watching an animal suffer immensely before it dies in writhing agony. He knows he's going to die. He knows the dragon is going to kill him at some point. Finger on the killswitch and all that. It's just a matter of when and how.Cassius has always been evil, the prime example of chaotic evil with bad plans that constantly change, ill intentions toward everyone and everything. But now that his story has run out, he's a bit insufferable to write and I hate it. It's taken me three days to write a thousand words for him at this point.
(DIR) Post #Ab8G6DhuQbeXQMf4SG by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T14:55:55+00:00
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"Skin in the Game" has a former Russian mobster. There's one scene he's in where he's committing assault that was very unpleasant to write.Sadly, I'll probably have to rework it again. The victim breaks down emotionally, and it seems way too brutal compared to anything else in the comic novel. I think I can save it by making the victim defiant and angry throughout the attack. That also fits better with the character's later actions.
(DIR) Post #Ab8LP15U4Vv9YdTEqe by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T15:29:26+00:00
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Woah! I wouldn't have seen that coming. I'd say keep the brutality, as it will be a great contrast the the humor throughout the rest of the piece. I can't wait to read that section of the book.
(DIR) Post #Ab8LPATv91och1yNge by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T15:49:15+00:00
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I'm not planning on backing off on the brutality of the attack, only changing the victim's reaction. Even as written, it's played for laughs, but having the victim break down seems cruel.
(DIR) Post #Ab8UxGFL7Iak0PU5aK by usagitenshi@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T17:25:24+00:00
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Cammy is an incredibly stressful character to write, since she's not very like me, so I have to really mess with my mindset to try to put myself in her headspace. In addition, her type of role in such stories is usually the hardest character to write, and so is she. She has to be grounded enough, consistent, and as compelling as I can make her in a world of monsters and in a competition with DRACULA himself.
(DIR) Post #Ab8fWUnK1BqOnpoqZs by asihart@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T19:25:25+00:00
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Well... the demented love interest in "the many horrors of being a Tokyo waitress" did not come naturally to me.Packing in as much cringe as possible was a choir.Her scenes should be unpleasant.
(DIR) Post #AbABmcJjCxsmSUfTIO by palmettohorse@www.minds.com
2023-10-26T01:57:18+00:00
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Literally everyone in Vigilance (still need to write a sequel for). Partly because it was based off a fan fiction that I wrote, so there's that nagging thought they are too similar to characters of an established IP. And partly because I wrote it for a friend-no-more who did not give a shit that I wrote it for them. So basically, continuing their story is a mental mess of paranoia and rage.
(DIR) Post #AbABmmBwUlb35F6OY4 by tj_vista@www.minds.com
2023-10-26T02:40:25+00:00
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Cammy is someone inspired by Carmillia, isn't it?
(DIR) Post #AbABmoMIRF4Dnvxgxs by usagitenshi@www.minds.com
2023-10-26T08:54:33+00:00
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If you mean that Cammy is meant to be, or is inspired by Laura from Le Fanu's "Carmilla," I'm afraid the answer is no. Cammy began life as a narrative and plot device, and I had a great deal of work to do to make her into an actualized character with hopes, and dreams, and an arc, etc, which could still work in her role as plot and narrative device in a story told from the oddest angle possible (ie: story told from the POV of the sidekick at the END of the protagonist's journey, when he is at his most passive and reactive, rather than proactive, and therefore would not work as a POV character in his own right).