Me, writing: “I love this character the most. I need to make them suffer.” - ThreadSky

galacticidiots.bsky.social • 78 days ago

Me, writing: “I love this character the most. I need to make them suffer.”

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My favorite character: You're only making me suffer this much so my happy ending will feel all the more satisfying, right? :D

Me: :3

My favorite character: Right...? (⁠;⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)

galacticidiots.bsky.social•78 days ago

Best to keep them guessing

briween.bsky.social•78 days ago

rule of thumb: make the character you love the least into a parent and the character you love the most into a batman

writeratthehelm.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is so true for me as well.
Main characters parents die in a house fire when she was a child ❤️

writeratthehelm.bsky.social•77 days ago

Also might kill and resurrect another <3

hobbitnamedowl.bsky.social•77 days ago

Me to Luke Skywalker at all times

seathru.bsky.social•77 days ago

It's all about the redemption arc after the suffering.

zonbined.bsky.social•78 days ago

Me looking at the one widowed guy in my story who gets psychologically tortured by a shape Shifter that keeps shape shifting into his dead husband to mess with him

krblackwood.bsky.social•78 days ago

Same 🤣

iartist.bsky.social•78 days ago

It is the only way to bring them back up!

robertsaxton.bsky.social•77 days ago

Agents:

desdeny.bsky.social•77 days ago

It’s a fast route to becoming a swear word in my house! “What in the Diana Gabaldon do you think you are George R Martin doing? Don’t make me Hanya Yanagihara come in there!” Yes I know the therapy bill is gonna be huge!

dromglitring.bsky.social•78 days ago

😭

vilczur.bsky.social•78 days ago

You should stop writing about me

sherryheyl.bsky.social•77 days ago

Through the suffering they rise to their potential and the reader hopefully finds value in their own challenges.

ouros-m.bsky.social•78 days ago

I do it because I love you.

enuya95.bsky.social•78 days ago

The more you love them, the more they have to suffer!!!

pkygal81.bsky.social•78 days ago

The George R.R. Martin school of literature, LOL

belleofthebog.bsky.social•78 days ago

It's almost vindictive sometimes "how dare you make me love you!"

enmadeanaccount.bsky.social•78 days ago

My favorite character in my story gets decapitated 6 chapters in

Whoopsies

galacticidiots.bsky.social•78 days ago

Man, love hurts

lynn1352.bsky.social•78 days ago

Same. When I wrote “Cats Revenge” under the pseudonym Claude Balls I constructed the same strategy.

thefroggybugbear.bsky.social•78 days ago

Look, you call killing this character's family is "brutal" and "unfair."

I call it "character building."

dimreaper.bsky.social•78 days ago

They’re going to die (again) because I just love them so much

johnwbuaas.bsky.social•77 days ago

If only the writer of those two novels I read earlier this year had followed this advice. That character didn't suffer and thus became insufferable.

worldofreath.bsky.social•78 days ago

My big problem is as soon as I realize a character is gonna die I start liking them and filling out their backstory, which just makes me like them more.

timothyah.bsky.social•78 days ago

Oddly enough. I do the same thing. It allows the reader to empathize with the character... I guess.

willmarstudios.bsky.social•77 days ago

@charlottetangle.bsky.social @yourdeadprince.bsky.social @ellteo.bsky.social 😂

ellteo.bsky.social•77 days ago

Ummm YEAH because I treat my ocs like every dog treats their most beloved chew toy???

I have to bite and shake and gnaw and tear until they squeak <3