CharLoft: Monday Body Prompts

This time is for Tanwen. I've been a combination of too lazy and too depressed to write many story things this week; I hope this will change and I'll do my best.

( Hands, Feet, Face, Hair, Nose, Eyes )

Fiction Writing: Letter-Writing / Character Voice

My assignment for tomorrow is to write a letter from my character, in order to better develop that character's voice. My first attempt was kind of crap, so I took a different tact and wrote about the process of him writing the letter, what he was doing, etc. Later, it occurred to me that this was not the assignment at all, so I emailed my professor to make sure it was unusable and did the assignment properly. I still consider it a success; at this point in time I fail to see any writing completed and self-revised as a waste of time.

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( Letter-writing assignment, take 1 )

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However, I'm very glad that I did redo the assignment. The first rendition helped me understand his thought processes; the second time around, I got to develop the character as someone who does live in a world with other people, however much he might deny it, and I think it makes him a more grounded, realistic character than the previous exercise. (It also shows off his sense of humor, which is creepy but well-intentioned, and which is important because he's not a solemn character. At all. He's just bad at displaying his emotions in real life.) And I was kind of surprised that he did care so much about his sister, and that he liked her fiance well enough to joke with him and talk to him about something like Macchi-Macchi. I have to remind myself that the depressing, borderline pathetic dropout guy who works at an antique shop and lives with his aunt and uncle - that is not how Kai sees himself. Kai sees himself as the fantastic Spook Master.

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( Letter-writing exercise, take 2 )