Ah, crap

[Just-Legal]

I'm in trouble with a co-operative peice I'm writing. I know *exactly* what my characters response to this new situation would be, but if I do it, I'm going to piss quite a lot of people off.

What do I do? Am I true to my character or do I sacrifice her for the sake of the group?

 

[logophile]

I'm in trouble with a co-operative peice I'm writing. I know *exactly* what my characters response to this new situation would be, but if I do it, I'm going to piss quite a lot of people off.

What do I do? Am I true to my character or do I sacrifice her for the sake of the group?

How many people are we talking about here? Is it one other writer? A group of writers? Or your readership that you're worried about?

Either way, I think you need to do what's right for the character, unless it will mean straying from a course you set as a team. Really extreme IE, if you think she would kill herself in this chapter and she is vital to the rest of the story line...

Babbling...
Let us know what you decide!

 

[Just-Legal]

Group of writers. Here's the basics:

A long time ago my character and another were in a relationship. She broke it off after finding he was engaged to another. Now, his relationship with his second wife has gone to hell, and my character is back on the scene after a long abscence.

Issues: I know she'd go back to him, but there are certain elements of the group who would see me as glory grabbing (the other character is one of the mains of the story). Also, my character has a light relationship with another and after all the other writer has gone through for this story she'd feel slighted if I left it I think.

But I know how my character would react. She'd go to him, and damn the concequences.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

But I know how my character would react. She'd go to him, and damn the concequences.

Then that, my dear, is what you must do!!!

But you already know that!!!

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I'd say stay true to the character, but that can be hard at times, especially in such situations. Sounds like whatever you're working on is similar to, if not exactly like, role-playing. If there are plans made otherwise, then I'd say you have to stay with what goes down. Is there no middle road? As much as it sounds like there isn't, sometimes there's another route hidden in there somewhere, that you don't see at first glance.

Q_C

 

[Weird Harold]

Issues: I know she'd go back to him, but there are certain elements of the group who would see me as glory grabbing (the other character is one of the mains of the story). Also, my character has a light relationship with another and after all the other writer has gone through for this story she'd feel slighted if I left it I think.

But I know how my character would react. She'd go to him, and damn the consequences.

How well could you defend the character's actions based on her past actions?

As long as you can defend the character's actions based on her previous actions, then write the character as the charcter demands. If you can't defend the move in the context of the character's past conduct, then find compromise.

 

[Belegon]

Every time a character speaks to me and I don't listen I regret it....