30DoW: Day 21

21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?

Nothing I'm currently working on have the MC with children. A couple are children, but don't have kids themselves (icky squicky). If I reach back a bit, the only one I can think of who does is Jerome from Pyscho, My Own. He had two girls Jamie and Ranae. He kills them, and their mother, before the story starts, but he did at one point procreate.

I'd like to think I can write children well. Convincingly, at least. They aren't stupid by any means, but at the same time don't know a lot (well, that depends on age) so you play a fine line of intelligence and naivety. What they know, what they think they know, and what they shouldn't know but do all play a part of their character. But it's a writer's own naivety to think that children are these shining examples of good and purity, the little bastards can be just as cruel and uncaring as adults; sometimes more so.

I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just a Little Unwell

...except replace "unwell" with "batshit loco".

Psycho, My Own, a story I had almost forgot about. Probably my first ambitious project, it was started way back in 2001-2002, or somewhere there about. I forget what I was thinking, and I'm curious about what I was thinking, because looking through my notes I was trying to take on a lot; and had very little understanding of it all.

I'm getting ahead of myself; all that I'm saving for another idea dump post later on. Here, I'm a gonna share the only scene I ever wrote for the story, everything else being background, character notes and faux-psychological interspective. Strangely, I'm not sure why I didn't prose it out normally, instead I apparently chose to write it in script form. So that's how you get it too.

( Read my old shame )

I'd like to think there's still something there to work with. I'd really need to better research mental illness if I wanted to go forward, I know I probably got quite a bit wrong (not to mention terminology). In my defense, I was in highschool when I came up with this, so that excuses at least some of my mistakes... sorta. =_=;