(02-23-2016, 12:15 AM)Nero Wrote: I frequently worry about the cohesiveness of my writing. I am extraordinarily detail oriented when it comes to events and characters "making sense". Is this character inconsistent in their behaviour and attitudes? Are these motivations justifiable? Did how this event happen and why it happened make sense? Do these things open the way to other actions, or did I write myself into a corner?Looking at it a certain way, you could be more proud of this than anxious. For some people, making things seem plausible is a primary goal in writing a narrative, and it gives them satisfaction. I think that it is a part of their style and probably an inseparable element of their personality as well.
When it comes to things like movies, books, or basically anything with a narrative, I am horrendously nitpicky regarding these things. I'm the first to point out plot holes or to complain that a character is being inconsistent, and this lends itself to me being extra extra critical with the way I set up my own narratives.
This is just my own belief, but I think fiction is an attempt to impose order on the chaotic meaninglessness of everyday life. People already have a tendency to perceive correlation between unrelated things and search for meaning in objects and experiences that actually have none. So if fiction is written by people, it would naturally also reflect those connections and the meaning they believe they saw; whether conscious or unconscious, everything happens for a reason, even if it was something as simple as "this happened to me," or "I like this color." I think the characters aren't exempt from this either. They resemble a person, and an excuse is made for how or why they do something within the story on behest of the writer, but the fact is they are there because the writer put them there. They exist to articulate the narrative, and everything else is a device meant to make the reader think they're plausible, or they themselves are the device, made to create the illusion of chaotic meaninglessness.Â
That's why to me it doesn't seem that strange, or something to be anxious about, that you try to square it all away. It shouldn't be, since you are writing it. That writing will inevitably reflect the way you perceive things. If it didn't make sense to you, you probably didn't write it.
While I wouldn't necessarily go as far, I think that, for instance, if I'm writing a scene and I feel the character's actions and background don't line up properly, that sort of instinct is probably coming from the same desire to create order within the narrative. Obviously, if it interfered with my enjoyment, or if it made it hard for me to play with others, I wouldn't be happy about it. Even as recently as with some events, I haven't been able to write myself in because I felt I couldn't come up with a reason for her to be involved that satisfied me, even though I really wanted to participate.
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