In the Next Room 5: A List of Beautiful Questions

[csecooney]

A short but revelatory volley of emails between myself and Mrs. Q, AKA Mademoiselle Guignol, AKA Ze Most Faboosh Stephanie Shaw, followed my last Vibrator Play entry.(I initially wrote "barrage" of emails, but changed it to "volley", but now I realize both words are fairly bellicose, although volley is less so, because these days the connotations

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[asakiyume]

So the one I don't quite understand--and you mentioned it on my LJ too--is the one about costing you. Can you tell me more about that one?

[csecooney]

Like... How easy is it for the character to say the thing they're saying. Even if it's just "Good Morning." What if they are saying "Good Morning" to their estranged husband? Or the person they're secretly in love with? Or the person they are plotting to kill? You can read the words "Good morning" as an actor fairly insouciantly. But... But it's more interesting when it COSTS something.

[asakiyume]

Got it. So the you is character-you, not actor-you.

[csecooney]

Yes!

Actor-me has enough problems. But we'll save that for a different blog.

:-)