Well I took a walk just before.

When I walk, my mind is free to wander.

When my mind wanders, I write dialogue. Yeah.

As my mind was wandering, writing subconsciously, I thought up a few things that might make for a witty status update.

A lot of things, actually.

So i thought, hell, this will never fit in a status update. Better blog it.

Okay so first of all, it's an emotional scene-

scratch that, back up.

First of all, I don't want to talk about the plot or content of what I wrote. I hate being vague, but I will have to.

So anyway it's an emotional scene after an important plot point (vagueness ahoy!) which in and of itself worries me.

It's hard to generate emotion in an audience. Especially the emotions you want.

Sad, emotional scenes can either fall flat or become unintentionally hilarious if not done well.

I really, really hope I don't go that route.

I noticed while writing that, much to my surprise, the characters kind of developed themselves.

So i have my antagonist, right? And up until this point I had literally not given him much characterization at all save for, "he's evil, m'kay?" But as I'm writing this scene, this guy's lines just flow naturally from nowhere, at suddenly, much to my surprise, I now have an antagonist with a personality. One that I had not expected. Weird.

See, this is why I do all my writing while walking. I always seem to do it best that way.

But of course this brings back my first point. While the dialogue may convey this guy's personality well to me, I don't know if it will do so to the audience.

One way to find out, though. I need to have someone proof read it... probably my brother, he's an English major.

I like writing. I don't think I could ever write a novel or anything, but stuff like this I can do.

Oftentimes (such as just today) I'll be writing something and find that I've written myself straight into a horrible cliche. I hate when this happens. I'll write something that, despite being a perfectly reasonable and realistic thing to say in a situation, is so horribly, unforgivably cliche that it kills the entire mood of the scene.

Then I have to do a mental backspace and start over, making sure to steer the conversation in a direction to where it won't come up.

I hate when that happens.

And it happens a lot, since the subject matter I'm dealing with borders terribly close to it.

Fate vs. Free will... oh, how I loathe this subject, and how I loathe myself for writing my story in such a way that it became an integral part of it...

I have to be very careful when addressing this issue so as to not do the things that annoy me about all the Fate vs. Free Will stories I've heard... So many cliches to avoid, so so many cliches...

This particular scene, thankfully, has nothing to do with the fate vs blah situation but it still had it's cliches to avoid.

The other challenge, larger challenge really, was that this scene, while an emotional character moment, yes, also serves the purpose of exposition. (to many commas)

And several times the antagonist's lines trailed into a monologue and I had to remind myself "hey! you're hero's kind of BSODing right now, 'kay? There is no way he's just gonna sit and listen to this!"

So here I have to keep things short, tell the audience exactly what they need to know at this point, in a natural and realistic conversation. But there's so much to tell... I'm working on determining what is essential to know at this point and when (and how) I can fit in the rest...

Well that's what I had to say. Felt like sharing.

Anyone happen to need a writer?

Just asking.

(P.S. Yo Tahmira, hey, yeah, I haven't forgot about the BIONICLE script. Just so you know.)