Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jul 23, 2018 2:21:34 GMT
When you're writing stories and you get plot ideas about what you want to happen, do you ever find yourself having to work backwards to fit the actions you wish your characters to take into your story? Actions that are unnatural and illogical? What's more important to you in your writing? An exciting, thrilling plot with plenty of action, or complex, believable characters who act out due to their nature and because of who they are and what they want in the moment? Both things are probably best!
Let's say you wanted your sister characters to be arrested by the secret service and locked up in a secret black site prison.
Would you simply say, "okay, so they get arrested by the secret service when the secret service find them kneeling over the comatose Empress's body, after they exorcised Isis out of the president's body. Every other character had the good sense to leave, but your sisters stay because they need to in order to be arrested. Even if this makes them look totally stupid and none of your readers/viewers will believe it?
Or would you say, okay, so my sister characters want to exorcise Isis out of the Empress while the secret service are waiting outside due to an angelic command. But now the deed is done, Cassia the angel says that the president will be fine and won't remember anything, so would you ask yourself what the sisters would want to do next - perhaps get Isis's impregnated mistress somewhere safe - and then have them do that?
Which scenario more closely resembles your writing process?
*story plot from a popular TV show, but I changed the names to protect the innocent*
Let's say you wanted your sister characters to be arrested by the secret service and locked up in a secret black site prison.
Would you simply say, "okay, so they get arrested by the secret service when the secret service find them kneeling over the comatose Empress's body, after they exorcised Isis out of the president's body. Every other character had the good sense to leave, but your sisters stay because they need to in order to be arrested. Even if this makes them look totally stupid and none of your readers/viewers will believe it?
Or would you say, okay, so my sister characters want to exorcise Isis out of the Empress while the secret service are waiting outside due to an angelic command. But now the deed is done, Cassia the angel says that the president will be fine and won't remember anything, so would you ask yourself what the sisters would want to do next - perhaps get Isis's impregnated mistress somewhere safe - and then have them do that?
Which scenario more closely resembles your writing process?
*story plot from a popular TV show, but I changed the names to protect the innocent*
