As I write this new work for nanowrimo, I realize to myself how powerful writing really is.  Not only do you create this story, you create characters, locations, plots, and just… you’re creating something with your imagination, you’re breathing life into things and wanting people to experience the same feelings you feel as you create.  Is your character nice?  Mean?  Tall?  Short?  Happy?  Sad?  You get to decide, you have control over this.

I realized this a while ago when working on my first story, and the joint story with my partner, but as I work on this new story for the first time I think writing has made me… uncomfortable.  I’m creating this character who is, for lack of better words, an asshole.  There’s things he says and things he does that make him un-redeemable in any way.  Now I’ve watched things with asshole characters, played video games against them, even role-played them but… actually making one from my own thoughts?  It’s shown me that writing can – and does – make you step out of your comfort zone, which is terribly hard to do. 

I actually had to stop writing the scene he was in for a moment.

So yeah, writing is powerful, that is all  :)

(I have no idea why I keep posting this stuff  ^^;;;)