Tea & Noodles

Creative Writing was brilliant last night and I got to draw some of my co-writers (which you can see on mu other blog) but it did leave me wondering about my own favourite characters and why I like them, and also why I like character more than I like plot. This is of course just an observation: after all, we are only a couple of people in a wooden and spacious room, but we came to a very sound conclusion about characters, and specifically some main characters. We decided surprisingly that boring characters are what usually make up our main characters. Why? Because we have to be able to replace them in our own personalities to be able to be in that situation. We discovered this with a few examples we discussed and apparently it's known apparently as "The Batman Effect" where a character is actually rather boring, but the setting, the plot and the characters surrounding them are actually far more interesting. So despite the fact the series has been with me with childh

Peaceful? This place? The unnerving white walls, the people staring down from portraits of years past - bearing into my soul. They call this place a sanctuary. I call it a prison.  Destiny they call it. Destiny of the one to fight the dragons. An honour, a privilege to die for the world. A world that exists in ignorance.  Well I've had enough. Let someone else fight for you - to die for you! I don't want this, didn't want it at the beginning and still don't want it now. This peer pressure to do the right thing. What is the right thing?  What have these people done for me that makes it okay to die for them?  It's peaceful now. The screams. The fires of a fight that is no longer mine. You go save yourselves, that's right. I'm having no part in this and I will watch the world burn as a spectator. Even if I have to burn myself. Besides, it's better to burn in peace isn't it? *** This is what happens in my head when you play 8 awesome minu