Hey ho it's me again, been gone rummaging through the early pages of this thread for a bit (since I'm no fanfic writer). Anyway, Lila had a good question about picking up a character after putting it down and expanding the role. I guess I'm constantly doing that - which is one of the reasons I've written a whopping SEVEN revisions of the same story and am now on number EIGHT. Nothing to be proud of, by the way, just goes to show I can't seem to get it right after 15 years (more to it than that of course but it's a tangent anyway). Constantly doing that, I was saying, because I just get interested in different characters because I see them in my mind as whole personalities that I haven't really gotten to know yet, so I write about 'em.
As I mentioned, I've been rummaging through the early pages and I stumbled upon a really cool question from Nar that kind of got overlooked by everyone because she didn't really ask it as a question, just threw it out there (which was coo). It's this: do you work with any themes? what are they? and how do you go about it?
My answer is (constantly changing but i've been saying that already) currently that I'm working with a whole bunch.
Lessee:
-what's it like when two brothers go through life one getting all the breaks and the other getting none?
or
-what if all the mythologies were true (i mentioned this before but it's at the heart of my story)?
-what if good and evil are not so clearly defined by type of organization/organism but instead by characters within the organizations? My Society appears evil as a whole at first, but little by little it turns out to be a mixed bag. Same's true for my Faerie-land.
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