I had originally intended to write a 500 word short story this evening, but I’ve been up since 2:30 AM and that isn’t going to happen. Instead, I’m just going to wax philosophical for a bit about how I want to write. Not in the I want to write more sense, but in the sense of what Voice I want to take on i’ve spent years cultivating our reputation and following as a role-playing game author. However, somewhere along the way, I forgot what I was trying to do in the first place. I was trying to process novels, of course. I was trying to publish short stories. However, I was also trying to tell a certain kind of tail one that is not derivative of a genre, but advancing of a genre. What I really wanted to do was to move the needle. I wanted to tell stories that were being told. I wanted to tell stories that reflected different parts of this very intricate story that is the sixth world.
however, I will be set in rather quickly, and after a time, my stories became rude and repetitive, and in many instances, I was really trying to push for the tale of certain characters that I really liked. Yet I didn’t know why I like them. I had no real understanding of what it is. They were ultimately trying to do other than to be seen and to be known. That works for some characters. That is in many ways, a fundamental characteristic of certain types of people. Let’s take Lex Luther for example. Everybody knows that the dude is really out to be seen as something greater than Superman. His defining goal his reason for being is to be the greatest, and this strange alien is standing in his way. So, what does he do? He tries to find a way to take this guy down. Again he has to fine by this. He is defined by his role as an antagonist. In some tellings, however he is also defined by those ones and needs that are purely human constraints. He has made more in these circumstances than just a two dimensional. I must kill the man of Steel kind of Character.
so this is where we get to the crux of it. I don’t want my characters to be flat. They have been very much so for a very, very long time. So the plan in my mind is to begin to tell stories about people again.