It's quite hard to comment when knowing that it's based on something that actually happened to you, since one automaticially feels sorry for you, but I'll try my best
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Well, that's why we say remove the author from the work. To make you feel better, even in the smallest bit, I can separate out for you what happened to me and what was padding by my narrative
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Thank you for that description! It really helps me personally to seperate the author from the work (it's like roleplaying .. I guess I turned out to be a Gamemaster since I have a hard time separating in and off wisdom). Sad thing you had to live through this
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Yeah, this is a really good example of why you need to keep them separate when you're reading. If you approach any piece of work with outside information, you're going to combine the two and miss what's really there. You know me and you know what's happened to me, but other readers don't. So if you look at it and try to read it looking for the elements of myself, you'll miss what's intentionally not myself
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I find this character very believable if heartbreaking and she seems like the sort who might be a werewolf especially a younger one. She radiates grit and determination.
Just out of curiousity, what do you mean by grit? I hear people saying "Gritty" a lot when they're describing something, but I don't know what that means
I am usually and thinking about coarse grit sandpaper. Which is not what you meant, but since I think of grit as a physical thing that interacts with its environment I figured I would mention it. Since I'm usually thinking coarse grit, I'm imagining someone that can't help but have an effect on everyone she meets. Someone that has a certain abrasiveness to her personality but who will wear away at all the obstacles in her path given the time. Even if you are rubbing people the wrong way you are still pushing though. When I think of someone with grit, I do not think of someone who will do all of this nicely. I think someone who will have a hard time because they will do it their own way and not sugar coat it.
Now if I were to imagine someone as fine grit... Well that would be like a southern belle who runs every man in her life even if they don't know it. Smile and sweet and people don't even know they are being molded to what she wants.
That word "Grit" kind of stands in for something I wish people would explain better. Like in this article: http://www.bestfantasybooks.com/top25-fantasy-books.php If you do Ctrl-F and type in "grit," he uses "grit" or "gritty" 39 times. What the fuck does it mean?!
Thanks for trying to explain it... but I still don't think I get it. All I can figure is raw and unrefined.
The whole fine grit thing just confuses me further -.-
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Now if I were to imagine someone as fine grit... Well that would be like a southern belle who runs every man in her life even if they don't know it. Smile and sweet and people don't even know they are being molded to what she wants.
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Thanks for trying to explain it... but I still don't think I get it. All I can figure is raw and unrefined.
The whole fine grit thing just confuses me further -.-
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