wherein Liz gripes about characters

Yay job search. Not. Am reduced to applying at laundromats, for god's sake. Bah.

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Sasuke is being a close-mouthed little jerk and not talking to me. Mmm, no I amend that: he's being a closed-in, traumatized little brat. He's not feeling/letting himself feel much at the moment, and it's hard for me to write a POV without some sort of emotional overtone to the actions. It's also hard for me to describe much because he's in a sort of tunnel vision mode.

This will get better, but just now it's like pulling teeth.

Also, I have decided (and it hurt, trust me) not to use Iruka as a POV character after all. I just couldn't balance his sections with the rest of the story -- a few times he discovers some crucial information, but that can just as easily be conveyed via letters. There was one scene I really wanted to write, and I wavered about it for a long time, but I've decided that I can do that as a sidestory when I reach that point. Or I could write a longer Iruka sidestory and include more of what he's up to, but in terms of the rising and falling action of the plot arc, and in terms of the... the themes of the story, I guess... he just doesn't quite fit.

He'll still be around, but he'll be offstage through the whole central section. This leaves me with Yukiko, Sasuke, Naga, and Amane Eiji as POV characters. I need Yukiko because, well, it's still her overall AU universe, and because she notices things that fly right over Sasuke's head. I need Sasuke because I really can't show his character arc without being inside his head -- he's doing a much greater 'journey' than Naruto did in "Apartment Manager." I need Naga because... no, can't tell you that -- plot spoilers. *sigh* And I need Eiji because otherwise there is far too much information that I would have no way of getting across, and because I want (very badly!) to make him sympathetic even though he's the target of an assassination mission from Konoha. We shall see if I succeed.

(The real test of creating a good OC: Well, if it's a minor character, I think the test would be for people not to even comment because he or she is inserted so smoothly. For a major character... threaten to kill her or him. If people scream, obviously you've done something right. *is smug*)

*wanders off to work on "Secrets" in hope that Ginny will be more cooperative than Sasuke*

wherein Liz gripes about characters

Yay job search. Not. Am reduced to applying at laundromats, for god's sake. Bah.

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Sasuke is being a close-mouthed little jerk and not talking to me. Mmm, no I amend that: he's being a closed-in, traumatized little brat. He's not feeling/letting himself feel much at the moment, and it's hard for me to write a POV without some sort of emotional overtone to the actions. It's also hard for me to describe much because he's in a sort of tunnel vision mode.

This will get better, but just now it's like pulling teeth.

Also, I have decided (and it hurt, trust me) not to use Iruka as a POV character after all. I just couldn't balance his sections with the rest of the story -- a few times he discovers some crucial information, but that can just as easily be conveyed via letters. There was one scene I really wanted to write, and I wavered about it for a long time, but I've decided that I can do that as a sidestory when I reach that point. Or I could write a longer Iruka sidestory and include more of what he's up to, but in terms of the rising and falling action of the plot arc, and in terms of the... the themes of the story, I guess... he just doesn't quite fit.

He'll still be around, but he'll be offstage through the whole central section. This leaves me with Yukiko, Sasuke, Naga, and Amane Eiji as POV characters. I need Yukiko because, well, it's still her overall AU universe, and because she notices things that fly right over Sasuke's head. I need Sasuke because I really can't show his character arc without being inside his head -- he's doing a much greater 'journey' than Naruto did in "Apartment Manager." I need Naga because... no, can't tell you that -- plot spoilers. *sigh* And I need Eiji because otherwise there is far too much information that I would have no way of getting across, and because I want (very badly!) to make him sympathetic even though he's the target of an assassination mission from Konoha. We shall see if I succeed.

(The real test of creating a good OC: Well, if it's a minor character, I think the test would be for people not to even comment because he or she is inserted so smoothly. For a major character... threaten to kill her or him. If people scream, obviously you've done something right. *is smug*)

*wanders off to work on "Secrets" in hope that Ginny will be more cooperative than Sasuke*