Shamed into Creativity

Alright, I think I have a way to get Lirel and Riyela out of their mess. Ok, ok, I know, the extra tormictionating I threw in for fun. So Lirel was being killed by a kekaila and I didn't want him dead yet, so I had to bring someone in to save him from it. Riyela's lost and Lirel's being no help. In a very dangerous place.

Tara shamed me into this idea, to be honest. She said, "Why don't their friends go back to help them?"

Why did she have to say that?

My original objection was that (even though I didn't say this) the leaders of the group (the one from which the two were separated) know what's down there, and that it's pretty much hopeless to get out of (nobody that they know of has ever come out) and by the time they find out Lirel and Riyela are gone, they know that those two should be dead by now and give them up for dead. That was my original excuse. That and the other two people in the group are clueless about everything (and one wouldn't care anyway).

So, since it was the only idea I have, I'm making one of the leaders go back. She happens to be Lirel's sister, and refuses to give him up for dead, despite many objections by the others. Simply because The Story wanted them gone and at least fatally mutilated, I had to appease it. I'm not going to do anything too drastic, but when Lirel's sister shows up she's going to find Riyela in the suffocating embrace of a huge snake that has the regeneration qualities of an earthworm (a tineyr). Thankfully, she's had knife-throwing lessons (from her other older brother whom she doesn't like at all) and is good at it. She saves Riyela. I still have to decipher how to get them out, but...let's finish this part and hope The Story doesn't mess it up any more than it has.

As before and always be,
Nestami.

An Agreement to the Agreement (aka Lack of Creativity) and an Update

Of course...and I do the same to Tara. And I'm not ALL that bloodthirsty, several times my characters help themselves. Yes, yes, and the amount of time they don't is about equal. But who cares about that? Only...that little comment I made earlier about 'writing without planning is half the fun'? The other half is figuring out what to do when your characters get you into situations that you see no way out of. I'm actually getting pretty good at getting them into trouble...and am getting better at rescuing them, but it still needs work. (Oh, and that Lirel I was talking about? I want him to live for a little while longer, but The Story wants him to die now. I am insofar unable to write anymore until I can defeat The Story.)

Agreement

Oh yeah. Oho yeah. Humiliotormictionism is the best. In fact... in the old draft of my story (I've tempered my bloodthirstiness somewhat in the newest version of my novel) I don't think any of my 'victims' ever saved themselves... they were always getting saved. Which posed some problems, as I constantly had to position other characters just right in order to save the victim's skin. Which can become quite a pain. I remember one character in particular- Jadryn- I'd beat the living daylights outta him every few chapters or so.... *wicked tormictionist grin* Ahh... it's so much fun to remember the old days. Now I'm tempering myself and trying to supress my 'tormictionist impulses' for the sake of my novel. However, in my mind I love to tormictionize. And, of course, it's so much fun helping Tahlia tormictionize and humiliotormictionize her characters. *glances at Tahlia* But then I have to help her get out of those messes... *wink*

A Subset of Tormictionist

I am becoming a specialist in a certain area of this new word: I will be a humiliotormictionist. Simply put, a tormictionist who also humiliates the characters that are being tormictionitized. You know, even if the character you are tormictionizing loses a battle with either man or beast, he goes down in a blaze of glory. I don't do that. He has to be barely escaping with his life and someone else has to save him -thus humiliating him. In this particular situation the character I am tormictionalizing is named Lirel. He's going to get beaten and bashed before getting saved. I'm not sure who's gonna save him, or how, but that's half the fun when you never plan a story.

Story Research

Today I almost passed out while riding my bike. Freak occurrence, but whatever. It was good story research. Instead of lamenting my condition as I lay on the couch, lungs burning and limbs feeling like jelly, I analyzed every inch of what I was feeling- story research. I should've written it down, but I think I'll remember. But Uhrya beware- one of your heroes is about to pass out.

I don't know if I'll elaborate on the drowned mouse story... more story research, lets put it at that. (And no, I didn't kill it. I only torture fictitious people and creatures.)

A New Word

Tormenting fictitious people. It's what we do, as DW already explained. So, we decided we simply MUST have a special term for this.

Tormiction [tor-mik-shon]; verb
'to torture, torment, debilitate, and/or mutilate a fictitious person, usually a character in a novel'

So now we are not only the Sadistic Authoresses... we are also tormictionists! *evil author grin* MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......

Why this kind of title? Because we're tormictionists. Why are we tormictionists? We came to the conclusion that the reason we beat on our characters so much is because of what happens to us. Example: We twist an ankle, somebody in the story gets whipped half to death. Apparently stuff like that happens a lot to us, so we take it out on our characters. I hope that explains any confusion you may have about our...unusual...title. Enjoy!