The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The present will not long endure.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
Let's face it: the present self is present. It's in control. It's in power right now. It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth. And the future self is not even around. It's off in the future. It's weak. It doesn't even have a lawyer present.
Confine yourself to the present.
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.
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