[Saxony Tarn]

Ah, LMP & Naaramare, you're both heartily forgiven (given that my Monday evenings are being usurped by a different group, this one with more homework, but it's for my job so i'm not complaining!) -- !! (and then there's Bor'chan, who has been siphoning my creativity off the story, but that's been quite worth it. Need to go back and elaborate on that armor-repair scene, now that i've made a mailshirt to scale...)

i too am rather behind in reading for FWW when Yahoo wasn't letting me access files from post notifications, so what i've been doing is reviewing the new stuff as it comes up and as Yahoo lets me view it (it still is tetchy...)

here's a new spin on that character question -- now that you have your character, how do you keep them interesting? How do you avoid your characters turning into Mary Sue and Captain Err-Not, all too perfect people that readers get bored with after awhile, and their counterpart Flaw-Man and Angstina who never show any positive growth?

And that related cardinal sin... how do you resist the temptation to favor one character over the others for unspeakable sentimental reasons that have nothing constructive to do with the plot? (after Goethe's having to cut several otherwise delicious scenes from his first play once he realized that he'd fallen in love with his villainess and was letting her take the plot off on a tangent, i name this malady "Adelheid Syndrome")

:: pouring another round as you share your tales of trials and tribulations... ::

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s.t.