Continuous

People are not continuous. They need to change courses or they need rest, and sometimes they need to just stop. It's understandable that these changes need to occur. But that change doesn't affect what was done before they stopped or took a break.

I enforce the thought that ideas don't die, that even though a person may not be continuous their impacts are. Once a person reaches their endpoint someone else just might create their starting point. Ideas from one person impact the ideas of the next person.

What one person might stop, another person can continue, maybe in the same way or maybe in a different way, but chances are what one person has done will impact another person.

People need fuel to keep going, but their actions are like light, continuous. When they are out in the open and people see those actions they are immediately affected. It is up to the individual to carry on an impact and become the doer.

And goodness has a way of continuing.

A persons actions may cease but that doesn't mean that the idea they had behind those actions will. The idea will travel with another person, affecting them and they will use that light to do something great that will eventually affect another person, and so on.

The idea continues, even if the action does not.

This is not just the way an idea works. Sadly this is true for many things. But it is important that we recognize not the discontinuation of the action, but the continuation of the idea. We must stay optimistic even when it is hardest, so that too can impact a person. We have to accept that people are not continuous, that sometimes the greatest thing they can leave is their impact, their idea for us to continue.

Maybe, the impact in itself is the fuel a person needs.

But even if it is not, even if the ending is actually the ending, then we cannot let the idea be left behind. Continue it. Continue the light they left on you to someone else. Be someone else's impact, just because someone was yours. Continue the idea. Continue the idea and you continue the person.

A Characters View

There are two sides to every story. I especially love to know both sides. When it comes to a book, it is great to have another story from a different characters perspective. It's almost magic that we can honestly see both views of a story. When does that ever happen in real life? Right? Right.

I loved the fact that FREE FOUR by Veronica Roth came out (Fours perspective of the knife throwing scene) and I liked that ALLEGIANT, also by Veronica Roth, had dual perspectives too except that made the ending...possible... Anyways I can't wait to get a hold of the book that has all of Four's stories!

Marie Lu's LEGEND series was also like that (as far as I know, I still haven't gotten to book three yet) with the switching perspectives and whatnot.

Reading both perspectives of the story, gives the story line more depth. It gives characters more depth too. I believe, and this might be a totally wrong assumption, that authors create these stories in a separate characters perspective not just because it has a worth (that's just an added bonus) but because it makes the character deeper. It drives them to get in the other characters head. These perspectives make two dimensional characters come off the page in 3D, they make already alive characters more intense.

A character that was just a puppet starts to have a pulse, all because you found their perspective. They become understandable because you know their side of the story, or maybe even their own story. You start to know why they do things. Why they think certain ways.

With writing, even as an amateur, I've realized that knowing the why is important. It means knowing the characters.

So find the why. The best way to do that, in my opinion, is to write (of course!) their perspective, or even their story. Write the story that happened before the story. You may find out more than you thought you ever could.