>...writing sympathetic characters crashing into each other's stubborn streaks and false assumptions. The private fears that lead to foolish secrets, and the uncovering of both. The anguish of making a terrible choice because they cannot perceive any good ones.
Wow, that's some great stuff here. You've done a brilliant job explaining the crucial points of an interpersonal struggle (not necessarily a romantic one, imho) in just a couple of sentences, and I really, really like what you're saying and the way you put it: simple and deep at the same time.
I've just started seriously working on my own fantasy novel which I've been restlessly sitting on for quite a while. And while I also love fantasy and need my thing to actually be fantasy and nothing else, I want its plot to rest predominantly on the psychological dynamics within and between the characters, with magic being only a story catalyst of sorts; but since I somewhat lack in both life and writing experience, I could now use any advice or note regarding human relationships and their depiction in literature. Yours came up just at the right moment - it's pretty obvious but I haven't read anything exactly like it, and I think it's going to help me a great deal. Usually a writing advice, even a perfectly sensible one, hardly gets more than a bored nod from me (I mean, one can only say so much about writing, you could read and learn them all by heart in under a week), but as I read this, my mind immediately sprang to my characters, who in a second stopped being hopelessly flat or tired or unwieldy, and to all the ways I could improve their essence and interaction. Thank you :)
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Date: 2014-01-04 07:25 pm (UTC)Wow, that's some great stuff here. You've done a brilliant job explaining the crucial points of an interpersonal struggle (not necessarily a romantic one, imho) in just a couple of sentences, and I really, really like what you're saying and the way you put it: simple and deep at the same time.
I've just started seriously working on my own fantasy novel which I've been restlessly sitting on for quite a while. And while I also love fantasy and need my thing to actually be fantasy and nothing else, I want its plot to rest predominantly on the psychological dynamics within and between the characters, with magic being only a story catalyst of sorts; but since I somewhat lack in both life and writing experience, I could now use any advice or note regarding human relationships and their depiction in literature. Yours came up just at the right moment - it's pretty obvious but I haven't read anything exactly like it, and I think it's going to help me a great deal. Usually a writing advice, even a perfectly sensible one, hardly gets more than a bored nod from me (I mean, one can only say so much about writing, you could read and learn them all by heart in under a week), but as I read this, my mind immediately sprang to my characters, who in a second stopped being hopelessly flat or tired or unwieldy, and to all the ways I could improve their essence and interaction. Thank you :)