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you can write a physically plain or undefined character so that they become attractive.
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That's my challenge with my herione. She's quite bluntly nothing special, for pure physical beauty--if you were, say, looking at a posed picture. However, she has a vitality and manner that make her extremely beautiful . . .to a select few people.
My problem has always been writing her view of herself, and yet making her lover's insistance that yes, she is beautiful (to him at least) make sense to the reader!
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Whatever he thought he was taking aim at, he hit abuse of authority far more accurately than God.
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You'll notice that . . .the Authority wasn't God. He was someone who at one point told everyone he was God, but he was lying. Pullman's "god" was something entirely different.
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I'm more interested in the classic mistakes and strengths of each and all religions than pitting one against the other.
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Mmm. On this note, this is a subject wherein my story becomes much more non-fantasy.
Within my story, there's nothing to say that any religion is right. Religious "power" has some effect on ordinary magic . . .but a Christian's devoutly said prayer has the same general sort of effect as a Witch's well-cast Working or a Buddhist's meditation. Gods don't intervene in my story; no angels come down from on high. I don't even have demons, per se; what's a leprechaun on the Bright Court's side is a goblin on the Dark Court, but they're essentially the same creature.
So it's all up in the air. The main story is filtered through the perceptions of my point of view character, who is a practicalist Witch who is in constant doubt of
all faiths, including her own. :: shrugs:: I like it better that way.
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at the end should the squire have a large punishment, or have a spreaded forgiveness?
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That depends, I think, on the theme of your story. Is forgiveness a big theme? Then it should reflect that.