Going into the dark, story-telling wise
I remember how half-way through ‘Thwarted Fate’ a bunch of readers left because they didn’t like the fact that Padmé broke Anakin’s heart. Even though she did it for his own good and she still loved him. And it amuses me so much to think that now because in ‘Kaleidoscope’ one version of Vader rapes Padmé, gets her pregnant; and when she escapes him, she’s haunted by spoiler something that keeps trying to make her feel guilty about it. In the meanwhile, she totally hates his guts.
I’ve never been afraid to go There in my stories. Even when There has been a pretty dark place, usually lonely with fewer and fewer readers willing to follow the story There. But what can I do? The story needed to go There. The story had to go There so There I let it go. Because to do anything else would have crippled the story. Of course, it would have been a lot more docile; and certainly would have looked a lot prettier if I could dress the story myself and not let it wear the crazy clothes/plots/characters that it seemed to prefer. But in the end, it would have been a spineless story written by a spineless writer.
I remember the 5oo-word AU plot of ‘Cradle to Grave’ that had Obi-Wan being haunted by Asajj Ventress whom he had murdered because she was carrying his child.
Colours can be brilliant in the Dark.
I’ve never been afraid to go There in my stories. Even when There has been a pretty dark place, usually lonely with fewer and fewer readers willing to follow the story There. But what can I do? The story needed to go There. The story had to go There so There I let it go. Because to do anything else would have crippled the story. Of course, it would have been a lot more docile; and certainly would have looked a lot prettier if I could dress the story myself and not let it wear the crazy clothes/plots/characters that it seemed to prefer. But in the end, it would have been a spineless story written by a spineless writer.
I remember the 5oo-word AU plot of ‘Cradle to Grave’ that had Obi-Wan being haunted by Asajj Ventress whom he had murdered because she was carrying his child.
Colours can be brilliant in the Dark.