Merry Messiah celebration and Merry Christmas, everyone! As I said, I didn't write. It was a natural week off to let the story rest and settle and come to me. You can't force a good thing. I do realize that by surviving this tough year, I need to be tough with my character Elizabeth character, Giselle. If you have studied screenwriting, you know they tell you to throw your character up a tree and be mean to them and throw rocks at them when they try to get down. Well, I never was mean to my characters, hence boring story. As a writer, sorry to say, but you are God to your story world and its universe. I wouldn't accept this.
I always let my story tell itself and not DIRECT or guide their journey which, hell, I have to admit leads to no focus or direction. It just becomes an elaborate journal that I wish others would like. That is selfishness and I realize this 35 years later of writing, that I need to give my character a rough time and to make come out of it a better person in such a way that the audience can go, oh, they survived this, maybe I can too. Because essentially, my character is me who has gone through something that an audience or reader is going through and it shows that they can conquer this problem as well.
There are many issues in Black Pride, but the main one if you look at my about page, is the issue that Giselle deals with her black prejudice and it holds her back from the ONE. The forum has not gotten to my question asking men to voice their opinion on their grievances with black men. I'm waiting on this website because they are very truthful and honest.
So, now I will write this week focusing on the comedy when it comes to me and figuring out how to make Giselle's life harder than just people and men problems.
Until then, smooches, enjoy the family and see you Wednesday!
Denise Rochelle M.
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