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I have that issue, but with characters on the whole. You see, my story (for lack of a better term) has existed since seventh grade (I'm beginning university in a couple weeks), and since eighth grade, I have shared chunks of it on deviantART. Now, as I'm sure you can imagine, it has changed quite a bit since then-- character names, traits, relationships, and so on. And this is really irritating, because now I have to accept the fact that who that character was last year... isn't who they are anymore, and a bunch of people have seen them before now. And so now I have to deal with that and I can't just quietly ignore my tenth-grade self being an awful writer. D: |
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Forum: Writer's Cafe
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:40 am
Forum: Writer's Cafe
...and that's why I feel accomplished.
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:34 am
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I'm never sure how to write grief, because I don't know what people do when they find out that someone they've loved has died. The only people I've known who have died, I wasn't very close to them, and I'm not particularly emotional. : | So I'm never sure what qualifies as cardboard and what qualifies as overreacting. But I mostly have issues with action scenes. My writing is really heavily influenced by classical literature, and you try writing an action scene when you sound like someone put Wilde and Goethe into a blender together. : | |
Forum: Writer's Cafe
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:25 am
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It depends on what your aim is, I suppose. In some stories, the characters are very important, and in others, they are only a means of moving the story and making a point. The Grapes of Wrath, for instance, is a story that is more plot-driven, since the Joads are meant to represent all of the Okies on a personal level-- the story isn't about them, it's about impoverished farmers in the Great Depression. Crime and Punishment, though, I would call more character-driven, since it's about Raskolnikov's crime, his guilt, and his road to redemption. Of course, these things aren't mutually exclusive, and plot-driven stories don't necessarily mean a lack of characterization, or vise versa. But I wouldn't say that characters ever "write the story", for me. And I wouldn't say that they've ever done anything unexpected, at least from my perspective (but that would be hard to do if they don't write the story). |
Forum: Public Forum
Digital Music Collection Vs. Physical Music Collection
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:50 am
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I always buy CDs, unless it's a particular bit of music that I will never be able to get in a physical copy. Recently, I got a new computer, and now none of the things I purchased on iTunes will play anymore, since most of them were purchased with my old iTunes account, which iTunes tells me doesn't exist anymore. And so. (I want my Beethoven's Last Night, damn it!) Admittedly, it's not a lot, but enough that I'm irritated. >:C But I just love CDs, anyway-- the lyric books, the art, the care it took to put it together. c: |
Forum: Public Forum
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:36 am
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Freedom of speech is a strange thing. On one hand, I believe that there are things that should not be said-- things that promote hatred and fear and so on. But at the same time, how would you regulate that? Even if freedom of speech did not encompass "hateful remarks", let's say, who would decide what does and doesn't qualify as a hateful remark? So, personally, I have to side with freedom of speech. Even in regards to hateful comments, someone is not going to stop feeling something just because they can't say it, and the sentiment behind the words is what matters; and, while words are powerful, the best thing to do about hatred is not to ban the hateful comments, but to speak more of love and acceptance. By banning words, you lend them a kind of power-- that this is something dangerous, something that the culture or climate fears. If you let people say what they wish, but address what they say, I feel the result is more powerful than simply telling people, "Don't say that, it's bad." And maybe that's a very idealistic and naive sort of view, but I believe that all people have the capacity for empathy and reason, if presented with the opportunity to expand those parts of themselves. (Though, perhaps that is a misguided bit of optimism, but there it is.) |
Forum: Public Forum
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:14 am
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I think comprehensive sex education is a good thing-- knowledge is power, and all that. Certainly, there's no reason to give the same explanation for babies to very small children as you would to older children, I disapprove of people telling their children nonsense about storks and such. I, personally, don't understand the demonization of sex and the human body, at least in the United States. I don't understand why it is implied that sex is this horrible, horrible thing and why the human body is something from which we should shield children. Sex is a normal, biological function, and the human body is what it is. |
Forum: Town Square
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:03 am
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Me, neither. D: If you don't trust someone, why would you date them? Also, I don't understand women who take out their boyfriend's cheating (actual or perceived) on the other woman. : | She's not the one at fault-- your guy is. Your guy is the one who was unfaithful, and whether she went for him or the other way around, he is the one who betrayed your trust. So... I really don't understand that. |
Forum: Public Forum
Dreams that might mean something
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:51 am
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Dreams are just a mixture of stuff you've thought on or experienced lately-- there's no rhyme or reason to any of it. Last night, I dreamt of Otto von Bismarck in space, solving the mysteries of the universe. I illustrated this here. c: |
Forum: Music Discussion
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:33 am
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"Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-Papagena!" - Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] But then the track ended: "Nur Stille! Stille! , Die Strahlen der Sonne" - Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute]. |
Forum: Music Discussion
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:58 am
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"Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner" - The Dresden Dolls. |
Forum: Music Discussion
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:52 am
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"Now I Fall" - Wolfsheim. <33 |
Forum: Town Square
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:22 pm
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Nothing-- I'm basically sitting around waiting for my face to heal after having my wisdom teeth removed. D8 I really want... sushi. And cake. And In N' Out. And sausage. And rice. And eggs. And solid food in general. ; ^; |
Forum: Town Square
Militant, preachy vegetarians/vegans
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:16 pm
I meant more in the area of "there's no reason why we should make the animals we eat suffer more than necessary in the process of killing them for sustenance", since a common complaint I hear against meat consumption is animal suffering. I know that wasn't very clear on my part-- I guess I was feeling less than coherent this morning. :B |
Forum: Town Square
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Tue Aug 17, 2010 4:08 pm
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I do not miss braces. I got them maybe a week or two before I started seventh grade and only got them off September of my senior year (this past year). Admittedly, my teeth were pretty bad, but it shouldn't have taken that long-- we even cut the whole business short, because otherwise, I probably still would be wearing them and my teeth are straight enough. : | After those first three or four days, though, your teeth don't hurt like that again, even after they're tightened. And I hope you get yours off sooner than I did. c: |
Forum: Music Discussion
Posted by Words to Hide Behind on Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:50 pm
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"Hook" - Blues Traveler. |