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Be good to your neighbor...
I just finished writing part one of Mea Culpa and... At first I didn't like it. I was just frustrated with it, the dialogue bothered me. But as it went on, kinks fixed, and it just became beautiful, and Delilah is so tortured. I see her with hair in her face, squeezing onto the edge of a pew with teeth grinding together as Michael preaches his worries to her... And Michael is so gentle. Do men like that really exist? Of course...Since I know what I am writing, I also know full well than Michael isn't human. So perhaps not.
Speaking of Michael, I neglected to make his character post, mostly because in the end I didn't need his questions. He was simple.
Michael
Courtesy of Far Away Near
His first name is that of the angel's. He had a last name--Cretu--until I realized that he worked better without one. For my purposes, if he didn't have a last name he appeared more...of a wanderer. To truly be without a fixed position in this world. Michael Cretu is the founder The Enigma Project, an amazing band who also partially inspired me on this. But now he is just Michael. He's a gentle, kind, and caring character. So nice... Does he have any flaws? I don't know. But they are supposed to have flaws... and yet I doubt he is a masculine marry-sue. And perhaps his weakness is that he is too nice. I think he is the kind of person who would let someone kill him if he thought it would better the other person... Er, if Michael could be killed? Again, I speak to much! I cannot ruin my ending before it has even been written....
I cannot wait to post this on YWS, but I am in one of those ways that I want this to be as perfect as possible before I post it. Which means it must be allowed to sit for at least one or two days... Ah, but even so, isn't critiquing for editing? And yet I have a sensitive soul... I would much rather be called wonderful and critiqued than simply critiqued. Or perhaps I want to avoid having to fix it. Do I really think there is such a large problem with it that it will require a lot of effort on my part? Ah, fie! That is was writing is... editing. Second I am waiting for Imp's approval to use her poem as a starter piece. It is in no way something I have to do, but something I would very much like to do. I'm not even sure I need it. Why start your story with something that will not aid it? Although, I like it because I think it will give the beginning more of a religious feel before it even starts, and give the feeling that church happened before the start...So then it does serve a purpose, or I am only a loon? Heh, either way. I like--adore and love--her poem.
It might be posted tomorrow, or the day after or.. this weekend. Another part of me also wonders if I should finish the whole thing before editing, although, won't that cause problems if it is a problem through all of it? But it isn't a lot to edit. This might give me practice in editing and perfecting a piece that is in parts, before I hack up Death Machine, yes? I'm bad at imagining large things. They horrify me, because there is so much and I cannot see it all in my head easily. There is a lot to remember. I fear I will go back to writing Death Machine and forget what things happened before the part where I stopped. Haha, I am just that kind of person.
In any case, I'm excited to have written Mea Culpa. It is... beautiful
Speaking of Michael, I neglected to make his character post, mostly because in the end I didn't need his questions. He was simple.
Michael
Courtesy of Far Away Near
His first name is that of the angel's. He had a last name--Cretu--until I realized that he worked better without one. For my purposes, if he didn't have a last name he appeared more...of a wanderer. To truly be without a fixed position in this world. Michael Cretu is the founder The Enigma Project, an amazing band who also partially inspired me on this. But now he is just Michael. He's a gentle, kind, and caring character. So nice... Does he have any flaws? I don't know. But they are supposed to have flaws... and yet I doubt he is a masculine marry-sue. And perhaps his weakness is that he is too nice. I think he is the kind of person who would let someone kill him if he thought it would better the other person... Er, if Michael could be killed? Again, I speak to much! I cannot ruin my ending before it has even been written....
I cannot wait to post this on YWS, but I am in one of those ways that I want this to be as perfect as possible before I post it. Which means it must be allowed to sit for at least one or two days... Ah, but even so, isn't critiquing for editing? And yet I have a sensitive soul... I would much rather be called wonderful and critiqued than simply critiqued. Or perhaps I want to avoid having to fix it. Do I really think there is such a large problem with it that it will require a lot of effort on my part? Ah, fie! That is was writing is... editing. Second I am waiting for Imp's approval to use her poem as a starter piece. It is in no way something I have to do, but something I would very much like to do. I'm not even sure I need it. Why start your story with something that will not aid it? Although, I like it because I think it will give the beginning more of a religious feel before it even starts, and give the feeling that church happened before the start...So then it does serve a purpose, or I am only a loon? Heh, either way. I like--adore and love--her poem.
It might be posted tomorrow, or the day after or.. this weekend. Another part of me also wonders if I should finish the whole thing before editing, although, won't that cause problems if it is a problem through all of it? But it isn't a lot to edit. This might give me practice in editing and perfecting a piece that is in parts, before I hack up Death Machine, yes? I'm bad at imagining large things. They horrify me, because there is so much and I cannot see it all in my head easily. There is a lot to remember. I fear I will go back to writing Death Machine and forget what things happened before the part where I stopped. Haha, I am just that kind of person.
In any case, I'm excited to have written Mea Culpa. It is... beautiful
calm
hungry
crappy
exhausted
grumpy
determined
energetic
giggly
annoyed