This is basically a continuation of the first chapter, so there's little else for me to talk about. Crazy guy follows Gen. Wants to kill her. What's a girl to do? One thing about Genevieve that I found while writing her character is that she doesn't think of herself as strong. She has a very small comfort zone, and anything outside of that fills her with self-doubt. Actually, the more I think about, I suspect that will be an overriding theme—all of the characters, at times, don't think of themselves as strong, which is certainly a departure for me from my usual characters.
Also, we have more Gen and Levi going on. I, unfortunately, drifted apart from my best friend during high school when I started dating my current best friend/fiancé. In Catharsis I gave my MC a little sister because I've always wanted one. In CotA, I'm making two of my MC's best friends since elementary school, because I kind of miss that. Gen and Levi have a very strong bond, that I'm tempted to say is sibling-like. Whatever you want to call it, they're very close friends.
Now anyone who knows me knows I'm not content unless at least half of my characters are outcasts. I would say Gen's real outcast status rises from her own self-doubt, and her own antisocial tendencies more than anything else, but when you have a “weird” person naturally and add “open lesbian” on top of that when said character lives in a small, not-so-progressive town, that aspect of her becomes an easy target for cruel classmates (which is hinted at towards the end of the chapter). It wouldn't have had the same effect if I moved the characters to college age, so at this moment I'm actually glad I kept them in high school.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."
Author Commentary
This is basically a continuation of the first chapter, so there's little else for me to talk about. Crazy guy follows Gen. Wants to kill her. What's a girl to do? One thing about Genevieve that I found while writing her character is that she doesn't think of herself as strong. She has a very small comfort zone, and anything outside of that fills her with self-doubt. Actually, the more I think about, I suspect that will be an overriding theme—all of the characters, at times, don't think of themselves as strong, which is certainly a departure for me from my usual characters.
Also, we have more Gen and Levi going on. I, unfortunately, drifted apart from my best friend during high school when I started dating my current best friend/fiancé. In Catharsis I gave my MC a little sister because I've always wanted one. In CotA, I'm making two of my MC's best friends since elementary school, because I kind of miss that. Gen and Levi have a very strong bond, that I'm tempted to say is sibling-like. Whatever you want to call it, they're very close friends.
Now anyone who knows me knows I'm not content unless at least half of my characters are outcasts. I would say Gen's real outcast status rises from her own self-doubt, and her own antisocial tendencies more than anything else, but when you have a “weird” person naturally and add “open lesbian” on top of that when said character lives in a small, not-so-progressive town, that aspect of her becomes an easy target for cruel classmates (which is hinted at towards the end of the chapter). It wouldn't have had the same effect if I moved the characters to college age, so at this moment I'm actually glad I kept them in high school.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."