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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.~~~Piet Hein, poet and scientist
Choices are the hinges of destiny.~~~Edwin Markham
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.~~~Lewis Mumford
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.~~~KAREN CASEY
Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.~~~unknown
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.~~~Erich Fromm
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.~~~Hamilton Mabie |
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Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married and live happily ever after. Where's the story in that? Even a fairy tale has more angst! Choices, decisions, conflict all add to the tale and bad choices and decisions simply propel us/characters forward into making new choices.
Let's face it: Bad decisions make great stories. Bad decisions create conflict. And those same decisions that, after the fact, end up being horrifying, embarrassing or downright scary, are the stories that down the road, live on and become the funny stories told year after year. Why? Because there was a conflict, a poorly made decision, then ensuing disaster and the result. . . is a story.
Of course we, and our characters would love to live a life of ease, with no issues, no problems and go happily off into the sunset with tons of money, a great love life and perfect children. How boring. How unrealistic. Conflict makes room for growth. Bad decisions lead to (hopefully) better choices later. The character learns and grows and blossoms into a final, but still flawed, character that ends up reasonably happy and is wiser for the journey.
While what we write, we often consider as something similar to a child, it really isn't. We'd never do deliberately unkind, mean or disastrous things to our kids. Ah, but a character? Whole different ball of wax, that. Be mean to them. Toss them to the wind. We will write them out of it in a chapter or ten. But in the mean time, we've given them trials and tribulations that are, after all, what the story is about.
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Jaye P. Marshall  writes: An excellent editorial with some great ideas for romantic characters that would be entirely different for me to undertake.I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Romance/Love: November 11, 2009 Issue [#3375]
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