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zana16A writing update: absolute gibberish to anyone who hasn't talked to me about Redemption
Dacey got violent yesterday, and scared Lij so much I had to totally take him out of the scene, or risk him never being able to trust her again. She got so violent it even scared me; things got really out of hand and suddenly there was blood. I don't know what it is that Caleb does that always gets to her; she knows him inside out so you'd think the manipulation would go the other way. I'm starting to like Caleb, and that needs to stop. His real name is Lucas for a reason; he is not supposed to be liked. He is what Dacey fears she will become again. She almost killed him at several points throughout their interaction. I'm not sure I like not having control of my characters like this. Obviously I have to work on the Dacey/Caleb dynamic a lot more. I've got the Caleb/Elijah dynamic mostly planned from beginning to crisis to redemption. I know there's going to have to be an Oliver/Caleb interaction, since Ollie will never let Lij close to Caleb if Oliver doesn't trust him, but I can't work out how to get them to talk to each other. Ollie never liked Caleb, but is was mostly jealousy until the crisis; then it was righteous anger and blind rage. And Dacey continues to muck things up by having undefined ambiguous relationship/friendship boundaries with all three of them.
My characters are still in Paris, and the bulk of the story happens in California but they haven't gotten there. Caleb hasn't really even appeared yet, but at least I'm getting the plot machinery more into line. I still haven't figured out why they need Dacey back, but at least I have part of the background story worked out.
I feel like the story needs more than just one female main character, but I don't work well with women characters unless they are the center of the story. And I don't think Dacey knows how to relate to other women. She's made a point of having only men in her life, except maybe Annaliese, but that's just her boss; she doesn't play much of a part.
I feel like I'll be spending the rest of my life trying to wrestle this story into line, and still I'll never be able to finish it. It's a story of life; it doesn't end--which is annoying, because it means I need to live a lot more before it can be finished.
Dacey got violent yesterday, and scared Lij so much I had to totally take him out of the scene, or risk him never being able to trust her again. She got so violent it even scared me; things got really out of hand and suddenly there was blood. I don't know what it is that Caleb does that always gets to her; she knows him inside out so you'd think the manipulation would go the other way. I'm starting to like Caleb, and that needs to stop. His real name is Lucas for a reason; he is not supposed to be liked. He is what Dacey fears she will become again. She almost killed him at several points throughout their interaction. I'm not sure I like not having control of my characters like this. Obviously I have to work on the Dacey/Caleb dynamic a lot more. I've got the Caleb/Elijah dynamic mostly planned from beginning to crisis to redemption. I know there's going to have to be an Oliver/Caleb interaction, since Ollie will never let Lij close to Caleb if Oliver doesn't trust him, but I can't work out how to get them to talk to each other. Ollie never liked Caleb, but is was mostly jealousy until the crisis; then it was righteous anger and blind rage. And Dacey continues to muck things up by having undefined ambiguous relationship/friendship boundaries with all three of them.
My characters are still in Paris, and the bulk of the story happens in California but they haven't gotten there. Caleb hasn't really even appeared yet, but at least I'm getting the plot machinery more into line. I still haven't figured out why they need Dacey back, but at least I have part of the background story worked out.
I feel like the story needs more than just one female main character, but I don't work well with women characters unless they are the center of the story. And I don't think Dacey knows how to relate to other women. She's made a point of having only men in her life, except maybe Annaliese, but that's just her boss; she doesn't play much of a part.
I feel like I'll be spending the rest of my life trying to wrestle this story into line, and still I'll never be able to finish it. It's a story of life; it doesn't end--which is annoying, because it means I need to live a lot more before it can be finished.
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