The important people. there's not such thing as causeless, though. Humans are causes. Anyone that uses the word troll is no better than anyone that brings Hitler into an argument to compare to the person they are arguing with or to a political person they are arguing about. No one knows what troll means. You don't agree with them, then you become a troll. Making them thin skinned and people that shouldn't publish a book at all. Because if they can't take disagreement now, the anonymous hate they'll get later, they'll cry over.
I call people out when they are being massive douchebags. My right to say that is greater than their right to be a dick.
I just ignore them and create characters based off of them, to do with them as I please. THAT, my friend, is why writing is so fun. IRL, you're powerless against the douchebags, but in your world, you are God Himself and this character you created is 100% at your mercy and whim.
I get no sense of power from controlling others; fictionally or otherwise. I just satisfaction from their continued misfortune. I am a good man.
To be honest, back when I was 14 and discovered I had power like that over my creation, I went on a power-mad ride. I would create characters and to the side was "THEIR FATES". It gave me much joy to decide their future. Naturally, all the bad guys died horribly and all the good guys lived happily ever after and got married to each other, etc. I even had one of my characters become an anti-hero where he systematically hunted down all the bad guys with a half-hearted excuse of revenge. Now that I'm older, I am a lot more calmer and now aim to let my characters tell me their story rather than act like a supreme overlord of my own worlds. They are very grateful I'm past that phase. :]
Characters are just figments of my imagination. They don't decide anything because they are not real. Writing comes from my effort, not the effort of fictitious constructs.
Well, I did have trouble sleeping last night, but I took advantage of that by doing some writing! Its been much too long since I had time for it so it was very relaxing. I'm glad I keep a pad of paper and pencil in my nightstand! It might not have been the greatest of works (b/c I was tired and I'm out of practice) but it gives me something to work with and the scene really needed to get out of my brain that night. Edit: @ Link. I feel you. I try to tell my characters what to do and all but it seems that when I'm writing the scene they always go in another direction! Then I consent, because I realize their way was better. I like playing the God who gave them Free Will to do with what they please.
It's fun to allow characters to breathe and be alive. They'll say what they want to do and it'll make the story better.
I'm confident I'm right. Just as you think you're right. Unless you think yourself as a doucebag too. Do you?
Arrogance is not realizing that you may be wrong. Confidence is knowing you're right, yet accepting that you could be wrong.
Wow, it's all warm and fuzzy in here... I may have written myself into a corner. I'm not sure where to go with this damn story and prompt...
In one of my writing groups we did a brainstorming session for a woman and for five minutes we wrote as many ideas as we could for her. It didn't matter if it was crazy or didn't make too much sense...just wrote ideas. She used some of what we wrote to get her out of that rut. So maybe you need a brainstorming session to get you out of the corner...maybe someone can help you walk through one of those walls. Then the question would be are those that think I'm arrogant willing to believe they might be wrong?
@ Kyle- Give us the problem and we shall mend. For there is 'nought aid we cannot rend. So giveth us the paper, my dear, and know we shall all make it quite clear.
I may have popped free of the rut. In class we were given, at ransom, entries from an encyclopedia, and told to write about the topic. I got a rare group of butterflies native only to a remote valley in Spain. I ran with it but used a non-standard narrative style. I liked the intro, but not he story is funky to navigate. What I have thus far is solid, but I'm having trouble thinking of what the story should really BE.
We had an exercise where we created a first sentences for stories in a span of five minutes. Just any first sentence that would be eye catching. Then we had three different columns with a list of type of characters, location and something else. We picked from each column and then picked a first sentence and wrote for five minutes. I created another awesome story with the first sentence "His shoes were melted to the floor" or something like that. Some methods are so simple and (in this case) fun. Hope you get out of that rut.
But I said if you prove me wrong, I will believe I am wrong. Saying there is a possibility of me being wrong is not the same as falsely admitting I am wrong.
Sad knee jerkers just keep on jerking their arthritic knees. All you had to state was that you could be wrong. Instead you chose the arrogant answer. Point was already made.
