Where does dust come from? Or: Why is there war? Or: If there’s a God, then why is my
brother now a cripple?
These are questions that you keep in your wallet, like calling cards."
To be religious means to be devout; religion is a system of belief often involving a code of ethics. Religion, as Colette Baron Ried says, is “man’s need to describe its relationship to God…a means to access God…a means to an end.” Does that make me religious? Yes; I’m a devout writer, constantly writing. Does that make me spiritual? Good question.
As far as I know, I’m a witch. A Wiccan. Mostly, I’m a writer; that was the second thing I ever identified myself as. My morals are important: I try to be good to the earth and others. I practice the Golden Rule. I think about my impact on the world, what others don’t have that I do and how they clearly can cope without it, which means that so can I. I also think how can I fulfill my goals, which have manifested themselves from my dreams.
Recently, I’ve been tugged between what I believe - Christian or Wiccan? The latter makes more sense to me than the former.
Who do you tell, and just how much do you divulge?
Me: I’m kind of a nutcase.
*gigglesnort*
![lettersandsongs:
Anne Rowling died in 1990, she never knew about Harry Potter, or the phenomenal success her daughter was about to enjoy. The death of Joanne Rowling’s mother was to have a profound effect on her writing, in many ways the whole of Harry Potter is one giant attempt to reclaim a childhood.“I’ve been writing for 6 months before she died. The weird thing is the essential plot didn’t change after my mother died, but everything deepened and darkened […] it seeped into every part of the books. I think in retrospect, now I finished I see just how much it formed everything.”
J.K. Rowling: A Year in a Life
For me, this combination of images and phrases is extremely powerful. Forgive me if I read far too much into this, but they (both creator and character) are essentially asking the same thing of the people they loved in their own worlds. In addition to that, due to the combination of the pictures and the sentences, Harry is asking his creator, his God, if you will, to stay with him. She didn’t give up on him throughout all of the other six books, and she will see him through the most tumultuous time in his life. In a way, they have one another - Harry holds the hand of the God that created him, and Jo holds the hand of one of the few (though fictional) people who really knows what it’s like to lose someone and to want them back, and to ask someone you love to stay with you, and to have someone who loves you promise to stay. Again, maybe I’m reading too much into this, but they are each asking the other this question: “You’ll stay with me?” and each responding “Until the very end.”
I think this is true with writers in general - your characters never leave you, and you essentially never leave them. It’s just a thought, but I wanted to explain why this makes me cry every time I see it without simply saying that I tear up. :)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc2kp5SjGe1qavxvko1_500.png)
Anne Rowling died in 1990, she never knew about Harry Potter, or the phenomenal success her daughter was about to enjoy. The death of Joanne Rowling’s mother was to have a profound effect on her writing, in many ways the whole of Harry Potter is one giant attempt to reclaim a childhood.
“I’ve been writing for 6 months before she died. The weird thing is the essential plot didn’t change after my mother died, but everything deepened and darkened […] it seeped into every part of the books. I think in retrospect, now I finished I see just how much it formed everything.”J.K. Rowling: A Year in a Life
For me, this combination of images and phrases is extremely powerful. Forgive me if I read far too much into this, but they (both creator and character) are essentially asking the same thing of the people they loved in their own worlds. In addition to that, due to the combination of the pictures and the sentences, Harry is asking his creator, his God, if you will, to stay with him. She didn’t give up on him throughout all of the other six books, and she will see him through the most tumultuous time in his life. In a way, they have one another - Harry holds the hand of the God that created him, and Jo holds the hand of one of the few (though fictional) people who really knows what it’s like to lose someone and to want them back, and to ask someone you love to stay with you, and to have someone who loves you promise to stay. Again, maybe I’m reading too much into this, but they are each asking the other this question: “You’ll stay with me?” and each responding “Until the very end.”
I think this is true with writers in general - your characters never leave you, and you essentially never leave them. It’s just a thought, but I wanted to explain why this makes me cry every time I see it without simply saying that I tear up. :)
I’ve got a character set in a fictitious world, and he’s supposed to be terrifying. Everyone who knows about him and has been either directly or indirectly victimized by him and his actions in the world that I’m writing about are terrified of him to some degree. I can’t ask what you think about that, because I haven’t really given you anything to work with, but I can say that, like most “evil” characters, he’s power-hungry.
So, for anyone who cares to answer or would like to give me some insight: What makes a character scary? When you have a character in a fictional world, what makes that character scary in a realistic way? What are a few elements you’ve found that make a character in a fictional world frightening on a realistic level (this is the same as the second question, but with an addition to it)? Which characters (and their corresponding stories) come to mind?
(Please use my ask-box! Thank you! :) )
