Yep. I love to use metaphors. Curiously, I use them more in the narration than in the actual dialogue. But some characters, like Laura, use them frequently. She likes to compare Our Hero to ridiculous things things, as in "This idiot's louder than an exploding orchestra", or "that dumbass eats more than a vegan castaway" =)
More than one, and in many of my stories. Loren is non-binary and genderfluid teen, with variable preferences depending on the hour of the day and how their brain wired (literally) at the moment. Maistro is everything-sexual (as long as there's consent and of legal age). The Still Unnamed Daughter might have done some non-het experimentation. And Our Hero learned to like women's clothing and shoes…>=)
—Who hasn't sometimes? But this is ridiculous! I got a fresh start with a new body included! I only wanted more money and job security, and I got more money than I can spend, but security is the only thing I can't have because of this damn body and this cursed job! And and di got a better understanding of the world. So damn better that I'd like to have a lobotomy by death ray or two almost every damned day!
Where I try to contribute every day (except when the universe is trying to kill me). I wish I had more time to pollute more hashtags with my ramblings…=)
And I also get inspired with the photos of SilentSunday and the (to some) infamous Caturday…>=)
#PennedPossibilities#Writing 329 How is your SC typically seen by others? Does it ring true to who they really are?
—Don Pepe is a strange man. At first you might think he's a drunk and horny kind of guy, one who thinks with his…you know. One who avoid serious relationships and don't care about his family. But you's have to know his personal story to understand him. Or, really, to understand why he IS exactly what you think of him at first…
#WordWeavers#Writing 29 How would your MC handle finding a spider in their home?
Our Hero don't like spiders and will kill them on sight. Quickly. He doesn't fear them, either, so he'll do it with his bare hands, no matter the species, using a finger if it's a small one, or his fist, if it's something like a tarantula. Scorpions are the exception. With those he'll use either the energy sword, or throwing any heavy object at hand at the "bug". Like Laura. And yes, he did that once…>=)
Then I'd try to escape because I know they all would kill me for all the things I've made them endure. The only possible exception could be the Old Hag, but I'm not sure she would say something in my defense. I took her beautiful and beloved lake and put "a damn city over it" =-|
—I WOULD NOT DEFEND YOU, EITHER. YOU TURNED ME INTO A SIMPLE AVATAR, YOU DAMN BASTARD…
More than they should but no as much as they should. All of Our Hero's team are legally dead, and all of them in fact died and were revived with the medical regenerator. They don't think much about their own death because they know 2 things:
They can be revived
They KNOW there's no afterlife
But they do think about other people's death. With joy if it's their targets, and with sadness if it's about everyone else's…
"Atlanta Nights". I'm sure I could have written that book in a way better way. Better meaning WORSE, and that's because I'm not a professional, unlike its authors…=)
That's a book that's so bad it's bad (and it was bad by design), and that makes it good…=)
#WordWeavers#Writing 24 While drafting, do you avoid or binge watch similar material?
I don't deny myself the pleasure of watching/bingeing media of any kind when I'm writing. Not that there's many similar things to my writings. I always can stea…get inspired by those creations. Right now I'm re-watching the first seasons of Chicago Fire, an excellent source of ideas for making the characters experience unnecessary pain and suffering…=)
Imagine being left in a planet with no liquid water. You have to find a plant (?) that looks like the child of a cactus and a fever-induced eldritch abomination, which burns your skin if you touch it, open it and eat whatever the thing that's inside it to get water in your body. Then you have to run so the people (?) caring for those plants don't eat you.
Maistro experienced this once, when he tried to escape from the time-ship. He learned the lesson…
—The Latinamerican Tower Earthquake. I was 9. It's called that because the legendary Latinamerican Tower, a building that had resisted many earthquakes fell. It even resisted the return of the lake. Lots of people died and many parts of the city were destroyed. We lost our house and survived by pure luck. Just thinking about this scare me. The tower was rebuilt and made to look exactly as the original…
There should be, since Maistro's story is made of 1000+ years of stories…=)
Some are told by him, some are about him, some are told TO him because he usually don't remember nor care about what he had for breakfast this morning, much less how he did X thing 680 years ago…>=)
#WritersCoffeeClub#Writing 19 Do you agree with Hillary Mantell, who said the best qualities for writing are self-confidence and a little arrogance?
I'd say yes. Self confidence is mandatory. Otherwise, our own self-doubts can and will stop us before writing the first word. A little arrogance helps, so we can say with confidence "I'm a writer", even to ourselves, without feeling like an imposter. Much…=)