by Arandia on June 9th, 2015, 5:00 am
Characters in Mizahar:
Arandia
Mahaleth
Similarities:
- Both Drykas.
- Both outsiders of a kind.
- Both fighting their nature (enemy = self)
- Both survivors.
- Both intellectually and creatively driven.
Differences:
- Moral compass (Mahaleth: largely amoral character. Arandia: defined [at least by self, though cues taken from surroundings and religion] idea of right and wrong)
- {GOALS} Arandia: To Be Useful and To Belong (to something/someone/an idea). // Mahaleth: To Simply Exist and Discover Himself - To Belong to Himself.
Question: How do two similar paths divulge? (Play tag through the cities of Mizahar and see. Keep forum rules in mind: no two characters must be in the same city at the same time.)
Main challenge for me, writing in Mizahar: patience and attention to detail. Quality consistency. Not used to all the grading business but it is very rewarding. Getting a lot of practice in. Good stuff.
Things writers have had to say about writing --
Kurt Vonnegut said the following:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. (Or STDs.)*
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
*parenthesis mine
All practice is good practice. I've read a lot of writers say that all you need to do to get better at writing is to write. It sounds simple enough. Granted, collaborative story writing, especially one that requires skill grinding, is hugely different from solo writing for novels and stories and things like that but I reckon it's some kind of practice, and any kind of practice is good.
I need to write with more people. I have a (short) wishlist of people I want to write with already. I'm not going to say who. ( Whoever writes Philomena and whoever writes Caelum, so far.)
So far it looks like I'm gonna get a lot of solo writing in. If you're reading this, whoever you are, please message me and let's start a thread. My characters, my lightning bugs, are lonely for yours.
Come on, baby, light my fire. |
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Arandia on June 9th, 2015, 5:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
Played by: M.D.
Character Model: Golshifteh Farahani
