I was a little worried about the ending. I kinda didn't know what the people would do. I sorta hoped they wouldn't run after Perseus and fight with him because I wanted the ending to be short, sharp, and ugly. I breathed a bit of a sigh of relief when none of the locals did much more than stunned inaction. Any retaliation would have diluted the impact. I am not sure of the harbormaster... I shied away from watching him too closely at the end.
If this sounds like my characters do what they want in my stories, yes, that is how it goes when I am lucky. Usually I have to work hard to make the characters believable. Rarely the characters take the bit between their teeth and I am like an onlooker, just watching what happens. I just cross my fingers and hope for the best. In this case I think they did well, but I don't feel like I can take any credit for it. I feel much more proud of my efforts in stories like Grace where I had to work very hard to make the characters put across my ideas.
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Date: 2003-04-27 05:10 pm (UTC)I was a little worried about the ending. I kinda didn't know what the people would do. I sorta hoped they wouldn't run after Perseus and fight with him because I wanted the ending to be short, sharp, and ugly. I breathed a bit of a sigh of relief when none of the locals did much more than stunned inaction. Any retaliation would have diluted the impact. I am not sure of the harbormaster... I shied away from watching him too closely at the end.
If this sounds like my characters do what they want in my stories, yes, that is how it goes when I am lucky. Usually I have to work hard to make the characters believable. Rarely the characters take the bit between their teeth and I am like an onlooker, just watching what happens. I just cross my fingers and hope for the best. In this case I think they did well, but I don't feel like I can take any credit for it. I feel much more proud of my efforts in stories like Grace where I had to work very hard to make the characters put across my ideas.