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@skylarynn

No.

If I can’t write Warning and Message clearly enough for you to understand it, I am not a writer.

Now.

I am willing to explain why I selected this character.

I read a pin on a city that was alive.  It wasn’t really a short story – more like a grandfather’s story.  You know, the one where he explains how everything used to be.  “This was a dirt road back in the day…” and so on.

I was fascinated with the concept of a living location.  Just think about the stories a house could tell!  Or a city!

So I tried inserting a living location to a story that wasn’t working.

Fun Fact!  Randomly inserting things into a WIP isn’t actually the way to liven it up again.  I completely lost sight of what the story was originally supposed to be to chase my tail with a living location.

Things got so bad, I had to set the WIP aside.  I will go back to it – the way it originally was supposed to be – sooner or later.  I will remember not to mash things into it.

In the meantime, I have created Warning and Message which combines a CurrentObsessionTM of mine with my interest in living locations. Additionally, this Villain Castle formate should teach me to go with the flow of the story instead of tight-fisting it.

See, I have an IdeaTM on how this character castle could go.  I even have a climax!  An ending!  But I CAN NOT force ten different people to go this direction.

I have to interest them.

I have to allow them to make their own decisions.

I have to meet them in the middle.

These are all things I struggle with.

Warning and Message has some baggage I want to unload on you, but I won’t force it.  And to just explain it would kinda take away from the important lessons I am trying to teach myself.

 

TL;DR – I’m not explaining my character because that would distract from my goals as a writer.  Expect another update soon that digs in a little deeper with Warning and Message and the politics of the people living around our lovely disaster-masters.