That's just something I want to put in these now. Just things I've been listening to.
Anyway, reading Amiee Bender's story made me realize where to take my next story. I've been trying to write it using only Facebook statuses, but it's proving very difficult, especially since I want to get some human emotion out of my characters (which doesn't happen on Facebook, unfortunately), but now I think I'd like to try the way that Aimee has written her story for it.
She's really great at giving the reader little bits of information throughout her story that show who the narrator really is. I really hope some people don't think the narrator is a bitch, because I felt like the whole story was doing it's best to show that she isn't a bitch, just "screwed UP."
From what I gathered, she never had the chance to grow up because she inherited tons of money at a very early age. She craves attention, but attention that will keep her distant from anyone that sees her (The dog, the closet). She judges everyone around her, but because there's a sense of self-loathing. She's afraid to be alone, but can't help but distance herself. The part where she says she's alone, there's a line about buying the mascara that promised not to smear. That was a wonderful character moment because that's where I realized that she was crying at that moment and actually cries quite frequently.
Bender did what I really want to do. She created a character that could be viewed as selfish and bitchy, but by the end I wanted to hug her her tell her everything would be all right. But maybe I'm just a sympathizer. I felt like the decisions that the two kids made in "The Love of My Life" weren't entirely monstrous, but misguided and sad. Even though what they did was terrible, I can't criticize them for it.
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