You're the reason I headdesk on a daily basis

Mar 24, 2010 19:34

Dear Ms. Fail,

Once upon a time in a land far, far away I thought that you were going to be fun to write with. Your character had an interesting story, a workable personality and it looks like fun. Which is cool because who doesn't like new players? No one, that's who. And then a few weeks passed and it was realized that something was... off.

Like how ALL your character thinks about is the person who attempted raping her when she was in her what, teens? Can't be bothered to look, I'd get annoyed again. Not because of the rape or the fact that it was a sibling - because sadly these things happen so hey, realism, okay. But supposedly she was getting over it, moving on... only... ummm... looks like no because hey, he's here and as said ALL SHE THINKS ABOUT. Scene with someone else where things not at all related to him are happening? Thinking about him. Solo? About her doing things while thinking about him. It's like the personality and everything changed and it wasn't a good change. It was a 180 straight into the pits of hell and we're all standing around watching you burn, poking with sticks and giggling with each other about it.

Because in addition to that you can't... write a mental disorder. Like at all. Crazy people are hard to write period and really hard to write well. You need to read up on the one you chose because doing it right, you are not. Now if maybe that mental disorder was "hey I wanna fuck the brother who raped me because goddamn that is one smoking PB" ... well, then congratulations. You do write it well and I was wrong. My bad, my bad, I'm terribly sorry.

And let's not even get STARTED on what you do when a scene isn't going your way. Suddenly your responses slack off by a speed of roughly twenty hours and you want the scene done because 'you're tired of it'. Right, because our characters should pander to what yours want because this world revolves around them and we revolved around you. Then when you go to ask someone for something you don't... ask. You tell. "My character is going to do this and so YOUR character is going to do this." Wait, what? My character wouldn't do that but no, she doesn't hear that, she hears 'okay let's do that!' and suddenly there's a scene and you're staring at your screen like "how the hell did that happen?" Normal character reactions also must be tempered around her special snowflakes because she wants them to do this but not get punished/hurt/dead for it.

Seriously, give it up. Or at least learn how to write and NOT make everything about one thing. My character's don't think that much about their families or their romantic interests or hell, the fact that they're afraid of cats. Because it doesn't matter in most situations.

tl;dr: Don't write someone with any mental disorder if you don't know HOW to write it; don't center all your character's reactions/thoughts on one person who isn't even around and for the love of all that's holy - don't shack characters up because the PBs would look good together. Fail reason is fail.

tragic past!, doing it wrong, creepy sex

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