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Published: 2018-06-13 01:51:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 4936; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 18
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"No...you won't control it"
I like this kid he's got his siblings number.
Inappropritate behaviour on the part of the Storyteller, getting caught up in their own powerlessness and letting it taint the relationship they have with their sibling. At the same time I think the kid is also to blame...he can't help being sick but he can help being the victim. If he always acts like the child when he doesn't get his way then his sister will probably never let him in again. When someone is being a melodramatic cynic the absolute worst thing you can do is make them think they are the one with the control.
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It just hit me. This whole arc reads like JoJo.
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I think it's time to stop believing in the Story, kid. The Story can't live without people believing in it. A story is only a Story as long as people listen to it and believe in it and remember it.
But letting a Story spin out of control and go dark when it's written specifically to help someone going through serious medical issues... that's kinda cruel. If the Author sensed the Story was going dark, why didn't they just end it early? I get that some stories turn themselves into tragedies and you have to let them be true to their natures, but still - is letting it run all the way to the bitter end really worth what it's going to do to you and the person you're writing it for? Yes, an Author has a duty to the story, but is the Author really going to look back, years in the future, when the kid is dead and there's no more talking, no more apologizing, nothing but these last memories, and be happy that they let the Story end this way? There's some things an Author shouldn't do to themselves, their loved ones, and their work.
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....I'm rooting for the kid, in more ways than one.
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I'm fine! Just trying to get everything ready...
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Someone put the foot down now, or I'm coming after Story.
He's the root of the problem.
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And yet, without Story (or the concept embodied by Story), Roommates would not exist, and the creative spark that has been making the Author's work shine would lose all luster. Interesting dilemma, no?
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Still, Story doesn't have to act like a freaking jackass.
I have half a mind to want to punch that Lovecraftian literature entity in the face.
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Can't blame you for that. There's a lot of stories out there that would benefit from a metaphorical smack to the head.
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Dammit... I know that feeling. Where you've started something, and it's rolling downhill gaining momentum, but it's okay, you can steer it the way you want it to go because you're creating it, after all... until suddenly you've written/painted/drawn yourself into a direction you don't want to go but you've come too far and now it's going its own way and you have only three* options:
1) FORCE it to go the way you want, and in the process lose the magic that makes a story or artwork live
2) GO WITH IT, and wind up somewhere you maybe didn't want to be but the story/picture is what was real and true to what was inside you as you were creating it... maybe you can eventually push through and get it back on track afterwards, but you may alienate your audience and will probably have to go through hell to do it
or
3) DROP IT. Just drop the whole idea, leave it unfinished, and (in the case of a series like this) leave those who have been following you hanging while you either figure out how to steer it despite its momentum (and risk looping back to option 1) or it dies of neglect.
Story as a character is Ashe's creation, but the power of creative flow is real to any of us who make things, and sometimes it takes us to dark places.
*There's also 4, which is to scrap all that you've done so far and rework it from as far back as you need to go to make things go your way, but that way lies madness and comic-book style retcons, which work okay for DC & Marvel, not so good with single-creator series.
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I think I understand. Being a writer, an artist, anyone who creatively outputs anything, can feel the burden of inspiration or the lack of, and the sense a story or medium is taking over, often in unpleasant places, but those places are often raw and as real as you can get.
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I know this isn't part of the theme, but I feel like there's an unconscious sub-theme where it shows how the community/fans demand the author to give them what they want to believe or see instead of seeing how the author wants the story to go. How toxic the fans/community is about the story and likely refuse some of the canon that the author put (think Misery by Stephen King.)
Aside that, I do get the feeling that it's likely that the Author loses the inspiration to continue the story and is unable to spark the muse back. Anyway, I hope the kid will give some encouragement to the Author to help get back on feet. :3
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I'm not so sure that it's unconscious at all. We as fans can cause tremendous pressure on creators. There's the simple "can't wait until the next episode/painting/whatever" that can actually help an author or artist to continue their work when they may be tired from all the creative energy their expending or can put pressure on them to produceproduceproduceortheywon'tlovemeanymore and there's the toxic "you didn't do this the way I wanted you to, so it's crap and I hate you now!" nonsense that some people will do.
I never had a big following like Ashe, but I did have a few people who would make comments about how much they looked forward to what I was doing next, and there was some feeling there that I would be disappointing them if I didn't make something new quickly. Fortunately, I was never a reliable enough creator to attract the kind of people who tend to be super-toxic, LOL.
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I have never hated an idea so much as I hate Story right now.
Bravo!
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....I started from the beginning 6 days ago. I've caught up. ...I'm just in time to see the world end.
I am so grateful to have been able to read through this. On so many levels.
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Thank you kid. Sometimes, stories are all we have to believe in. Long quote here from someone who says it better than me:
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
"REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."
"So we can believe the big ones?"
"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."
"They're not the same at all!"
"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—" Death waved a hand. "AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
"MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Terry Pratchett , Hogfather
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YES! Death says it perfectly.
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I love your Hogfather reference <3 This was exactly what I thought of at this page as well.
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I remember when this strip was funny. Not complaining or anything, just saying I remember.
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...Oh, and kid - as one survivor to another - write the ending you want yourself...
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In the end, we are what we are - we are reality and it is up to us to determine that reality even if for just a second. It's up to the person to be strong enough to admit it to themselves. We set ourselves up often enough to remember it...
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Wow. I feel as though this is every author's nightmare when writing: they start a story, then it gets away from them, then it consumes them.
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Bookwormgal I think the foot coming down just entered the room.
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Usually there's more than one foot; they're called editors and readers...and in the long term...fanfiction writers...and here we are in the circle...which justifies the belief in other realities, doesn't it...?
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I want ot kudos this comment.
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The kid is right. The Author "won't" control it. And that's the problem. Story wants the drama. The kid wants happy endings for those who deserve them. Someone is going to have to put their foot down.
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