Lol, Tom. I just bought a really fun book called "How NOT to Write A Novel" which talks about that very thing. It's cute, the book; I'm enjoying it. :-)
I know!! It ruined the whole movie for me; I was FURIOUS. And like I said what made me the maddest about it was the way the filmmakers seemed to endorse her decision.
AND the fact that the ending seems strongly to imply that the two sisters didn't have much of a relationship after that anyway.
I just really hated it. I can't even express how much. What crap. She should have been ashamed of herself and her teammates should have beat the hell out of her.
Make that another person who didn't like the ending of that film at all.
As for writing emotions, the emotions come from the characters and occasionally tend to surprise me. Though I have noticed that my current WIP does seem to be emotionally more complex than my usual work and probes deeper into the characters' emotions.
I'm not yet sure whether this is a good or a bad thing. Nor am I sure if the deeper emotions of my characters are somehow tied to my own less than happy emotional state.
Yeah, there is that, Cora. It's hard to write happy people when you're not. But I'm generally of the belief that more emotional complexity is a good thing; you can always fix it in edits if it's too much.
Yes, the ending sucked. I suppose it might not have been quite so bad if the Lori Petty character wasn't so hideously unlikable, but probably not. Just bad all around.
I actually was pretty happy when I started writing that book and gradually grew less happy afterwards, while the book grew more emotionally complex. Sometimes I wonder whether it is the book that's keeping me down or vice versa.
As for A League of Their Own, if a male sports character in a film is supposed to throw a game/fight, there is usually a huge conflict involving gangsters threatening the sportsman or his loved ones. In such cases, there would be some justification for throwing the game, though the loved ones are usually rescued before that happens. In A League of their own, however, there is no conflict even approaching that scale. Besides, Lori Petty's character is unlikeable.
One of the reasons I like Pan's Labyrinth is because of the huge number of emotional choices there are in that movie. Very dark, but so gut-wrenching.
Ann Aguirre is also pretty good with her emotional decisions in the Grimspace series. Also I totally read Charlaine Harris for her characters. Her Harper Connelly series is amazing.
I've always thought the balance between writing exciting action and being true to the characters' emotions was tough to get right, but very important. Part of what makes me connect to a character is the emotion. If I can't feel or at least begin to understand what a character is feeling, then I have a hard time connecting. If I can't connect to the character, then I don't care how exciting the action of the book is--I'll put it down and probably not pick it up again. In my own urban fantasy, the action of the book is the result of emotional decisions my main character made many lifetimes ago, which she must resolve in the present day in order to save many lives--including her own. It's about atonement, love, and sacrifice. It's about that moment when you know you must stop running and face the past, because there is so much more at stake than just yourself. So...I don't think I'd have a plot without the emotional content; it's integral to the action and I couldn't leave it out if I tried. I think the key is to make sure the
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AND the fact that the ending seems strongly to imply that the two sisters didn't have much of a relationship after that anyway.
I just really hated it. I can't even express how much. What crap. She should have been ashamed of herself and her teammates should have beat the hell out of her.
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As for writing emotions, the emotions come from the characters and occasionally tend to surprise me. Though I have noticed that my current WIP does seem to be emotionally more complex than my usual work and probes deeper into the characters' emotions.
I'm not yet sure whether this is a good or a bad thing. Nor am I sure if the deeper emotions of my characters are somehow tied to my own less than happy emotional state.
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Yes, the ending sucked. I suppose it might not have been quite so bad if the Lori Petty character wasn't so hideously unlikable, but probably not. Just bad all around.
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As for A League of Their Own, if a male sports character in a film is supposed to throw a game/fight, there is usually a huge conflict involving gangsters threatening the sportsman or his loved ones. In such cases, there would be some justification for throwing the game, though the loved ones are usually rescued before that happens. In A League of their own, however, there is no conflict even approaching that scale. Besides, Lori Petty's character is unlikeable.
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Ann Aguirre is also pretty good with her emotional decisions in the Grimspace series. Also I totally read Charlaine Harris for her characters. Her Harper Connelly series is amazing.
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