Forum Overview :: Cabaret Voltron :: Re: I do find them all interesting.

[quote name="Fullofkittens"][quote name="mrs. johnson"]They are all strange twisted aspects of me. And who loves me more than me, right? That doesn't seem to the be the trouble. Every time I have the urge to write, I look at disdain upon all my previous writing, and sort of sit down with the goal of blowing it all away. Before I can write something long, I feel like I have to be the best I can be. Or something. Maybe if I was certain that I wasn't improving, but who's to say? Bah, I can always just do what I suggested to someone else and string stories together by strange events and have one large episodic story. But that will seem forced. the mrs.[/quote] No seriously, you have to let characters exist on their own, and not just be shards of your psyche that do the things you tell them to. That's sounds queer and metaphysical, but that's how it is. Stop telling us things in big paragraph blocks and start letting the people in your stories do things on their own steam. And for Christ's sake let them talk once in a while. This particular story doesn't have any characters at all, but your little soliliquoy might (*might*) magically get interesting if it were coming out of the mouth of someone in a story about people. "Armament," lacking as it does any characters, we just have this big ramble coming out of the mouth of... you? An omniscient narrator? Basically, it's the monologue at the end of a <i>Twilight Zone</i> episode. Do you like that part of the <i>Twilight Zone</i>? Since there's no characters and no situation, it's kind of like a poem. But I suspect that's not what you're going for. Or is it?[/quote]