Do you try and make the bad guys as evil as possible or do you stick to the cliched "bad guys always lose, goodies win" thing?
I'm not really for the "evil for the sake of EEEVIL"-thingy many people often have going on. I mostly write fantasy, a genre that practically requires someone very evil to try and take over the world so that the hero can save it and be a hero ever after... But I don't like doing it like that. I like to blur the line of good and evil, make my readers feel at least somewhat sorry for the bad guys, and to really show how they grew up to be like that. In my flagship-story, the antagonist is one of the most interesting and complex characters I've ever written about. I also made a short oneshot in which she's still a small child and not even remotely evil yet... But I won't tell you what made her grow so twisted!
I also like to think that there is no such thing as a purely evil person who's bad for the sake of being bad. I don't want to believe that people are evil, instead I like to think that they are stupid, insane, twisted, read other people completely wrong, or have other problems of the like. Then again, I also don't believe in redemption that overcomes everything you've done. If you do something bad, you can't just forget about the whole thing and go on with living like it never happened. People might forgive you over time, you might forgive yourself over time, but you still shouldn't completely forget about it...
These are difficult things when you think about it. I just don't happen to like the traditional black and white setting, so I prefer not to use it all too often.
By the way, the ancient Greek believed that a good story is one where everyone loses, both the good guys and the bad guys. I think that would be kind of frustrating, but anyway.
Have you ever written anything that made you cry?
Yeah, sometimes. When my grandpa died, being the first person close to me to die, I wrote a poem for him. That poem made me cry several times back then, but it doesn't have that effect on me anymore. I think it's one of the best poems I ever wrote that age, since I seem to actually understand something in it... But maybe I'm thinking about it too much, it might be just luck after all.
There are also some other texts I've written that made me cry, but I've lost them, so I can't quite recall what they were about.
I'm not really for the "evil for the sake of EEEVIL"-thingy many people often have going on. I mostly write fantasy, a genre that practically requires someone very evil to try and take over the world so that the hero can save it and be a hero ever after... But I don't like doing it like that. I like to blur the line of good and evil, make my readers feel at least somewhat sorry for the bad guys, and to really show how they grew up to be like that. In my flagship-story, the antagonist is one of the most interesting and complex characters I've ever written about. I also made a short oneshot in which she's still a small child and not even remotely evil yet... But I won't tell you what made her grow so twisted!
I also like to think that there is no such thing as a purely evil person who's bad for the sake of being bad. I don't want to believe that people are evil, instead I like to think that they are stupid, insane, twisted, read other people completely wrong, or have other problems of the like. Then again, I also don't believe in redemption that overcomes everything you've done. If you do something bad, you can't just forget about the whole thing and go on with living like it never happened. People might forgive you over time, you might forgive yourself over time, but you still shouldn't completely forget about it...
These are difficult things when you think about it. I just don't happen to like the traditional black and white setting, so I prefer not to use it all too often.
By the way, the ancient Greek believed that a good story is one where everyone loses, both the good guys and the bad guys. I think that would be kind of frustrating, but anyway.
Have you ever written anything that made you cry?
Yeah, sometimes. When my grandpa died, being the first person close to me to die, I wrote a poem for him. That poem made me cry several times back then, but it doesn't have that effect on me anymore. I think it's one of the best poems I ever wrote that age, since I seem to actually understand something in it... But maybe I'm thinking about it too much, it might be just luck after all.
There are also some other texts I've written that made me cry, but I've lost them, so I can't quite recall what they were about.