0_0 I had no idea you had actually read that post. Now I feel kind of embarrassed - it's far from my best work. ^_^; Still, I'm glad you like Aseena. She was fun to write - a sort of street-level Messiah whose main skill is always looking like she knows what she's doing. ;)
As I said in my Twilight post, most of my main characters are off-the-chart-hot. For a lot of years, I tried writing gritty, realistic stories about people who frequently made mistakes and who wasn't anything special. And then I wrote Flesh of my Flesh, mostly as a relaxing pasttime, and I realised something - gritty and realistic is boring. =] So since then I've given up all pretense of having everyman characters.
I always work hard at making sure that a character is more than a pretty face, though - that they have skills and problems and ideals and weaknesses (most of which are also larger than life, because that's what's fun). I like to refer to it as my Dessert Doctrine of Pervy Writing. Once I have given a character dreams and goals, skills and abilities, likes and dislikes and friends and enemies, only then do I feel that I may allow myself to also give her really big boobies. 8)
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Date: 2010-03-14 07:58 am (UTC)As I said in my Twilight post, most of my main characters are off-the-chart-hot. For a lot of years, I tried writing gritty, realistic stories about people who frequently made mistakes and who wasn't anything special. And then I wrote Flesh of my Flesh, mostly as a relaxing pasttime, and I realised something - gritty and realistic is boring. =] So since then I've given up all pretense of having everyman characters.
I always work hard at making sure that a character is more than a pretty face, though - that they have skills and problems and ideals and weaknesses (most of which are also larger than life, because that's what's fun). I like to refer to it as my Dessert Doctrine of Pervy Writing. Once I have given a character dreams and goals, skills and abilities, likes and dislikes and friends and enemies, only then do I feel that I may allow myself to also give her really big boobies. 8)