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.

No Pain No Gain

I'm two days in volleyball practice and I'm starting to feel it. Yesterday I didn't feel it as much but today... Oh, do I feel it. That's okay though, sure I'll complain but I'll complain with a smile because it might be odd, but, I like the feeling of being sore. Feeling sore makes me feel accomplished. There is a good reason I'm sore, why my teammates are sore, because we are working hard.

As a senior (the only senior on the team) I want this season to last as long as possible, which means that we have to win games to keep going. I think that with all of this hard work burning in our muscles we will have a good season. That's what I can hope for anyway.

That's what we all hope for. That's the reason the coaches push so hard. There is always room for improvement and they know that. Just because I'm a senior doesn't mean that I know it all, I try to learn something different every time we go into a drill. If I don't bother in trying to learn something different, if none of us bothers, then there is no reason we should be out there. If we aren't learning, we aren't winning. And if we aren't working hard, we aren't winning. This might sound rude but, I want to win. If we lose, then, fine as longs as we did our best.

So, yeah I like the feeling of being sore. It means we are working, and working hard. Feeling sore is just being one step closer to a better game.