#it was stressful trying to get Eran to the kinks i wanted him to get to

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27

Whoa that 27 is huuuuuge

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

Oh this is super interesting!

Hmm. You know sometimes it's 'whoever I'm writing in the moment' but there's definitely standouts.

*thinks*

Augus in Smoke in Autumn is stressful because I have to go into a kind of very analytical, sadistic mindspace to really hook into the way he's thinking and what he wants to do next. And there's a coldness to it and a detachment to it which I sometimes want to resist or change or alter, and while some of that will change, I have to remember to stay anchored in his character. So I can never quite relax while writing him.

I think otherwise though, Connor and Cullen are probably up there, because they're both such contrary characters that I really had to fight them sometimes in the narrative to go in the direction I wanted. And what I mean by that is that often before sitting down to write a chapter, I've road-tested around 1-5 different scenarios and picked the best one. Cullen and Connor frequently forced me to road-test up to 20 with no success, because none of them let me get to where I wanted to get to. They feel like the algebra version of writing characters.

And I would say obviously Mallory and Mount from Mallory & Mount because otherwise we'd have chapters of that by now.

I feel like I'm missing some. I definitely think Eran, actually, because he was such a...Seelie-minded individual and I was writing a kind of character that didn't come naturally to me. Eran taught me that I don't really enjoy writing 'baby doms' very much, and it's like welp, lesson learned!

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