Mindfire
Istar
An upset mother. I am not even kidding. I can connect to all of my characters fairly well except one: the protagonist's mother.
I don't know why, I just have a hard time understanding her. And the entire issue has become even more of a stumbling block because now I have to write her reaction to finding out that her son has been captured by the enemy. I can't seem to come up with anything believable for her to say. It all comes out either unrealistically melodramatic or far too dry. There's something about a storm of maternal emotions that I seem to have trouble connecting with. In fact, I think that's the problem with this character in general. She's emotional in a way none of my other characters are. Nothing but emotional in fact. My other characters are (like me) mostly logos, but she's 100% pathos. It might be causing a "does not compute" error in my subconscious or something. Idk.
The only solution I can think of at the moment is to write her character out entirely by saying that she died in childbirth. But before I resort to extreme measures, does anyone have any helpful suggestions? I'm really thrown for a loop here. This one issue has halted my entire narrative process.
EDIT: I just realized I might not even have the option to write her out, since she needs to see a vision that helps kick off the main plot. The only other person I could give the vision to is my protagonist's cousin, but she's busy rescuing him. Or I could give it to his father, but that would be tricky considering that the vision has cultural significance and the protagonist's father and mother are from different cultures, so he wouldn't even know what it meant. Changing who gets the vision would be doable, but tricky. Which means this matter has become even more problematic.
I don't know why, I just have a hard time understanding her. And the entire issue has become even more of a stumbling block because now I have to write her reaction to finding out that her son has been captured by the enemy. I can't seem to come up with anything believable for her to say. It all comes out either unrealistically melodramatic or far too dry. There's something about a storm of maternal emotions that I seem to have trouble connecting with. In fact, I think that's the problem with this character in general. She's emotional in a way none of my other characters are. Nothing but emotional in fact. My other characters are (like me) mostly logos, but she's 100% pathos. It might be causing a "does not compute" error in my subconscious or something. Idk.
The only solution I can think of at the moment is to write her character out entirely by saying that she died in childbirth. But before I resort to extreme measures, does anyone have any helpful suggestions? I'm really thrown for a loop here. This one issue has halted my entire narrative process.
EDIT: I just realized I might not even have the option to write her out, since she needs to see a vision that helps kick off the main plot. The only other person I could give the vision to is my protagonist's cousin, but she's busy rescuing him. Or I could give it to his father, but that would be tricky considering that the vision has cultural significance and the protagonist's father and mother are from different cultures, so he wouldn't even know what it meant. Changing who gets the vision would be doable, but tricky. Which means this matter has become even more problematic.
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