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<blockquote data-quote="mythago" data-source="post: 1506406" data-attributes="member: 3019">Warm fuzzies, however nice, don't help us improve.&nbsp;&nbsp;Author notes:&nbsp;&nbsp;1. I really wanted to start a story with &quot;I write this with a trembling hand...&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. If you lived where I do right now, you, too, would hate trees.&nbsp;&nbsp;3. I'll try to rework Danika's entries because, sadly, I didn't think it surprising at all that she stayed with Cray after the forest fire. I saw her as young, immature and more than a little unsure of herself in the world, and it's depressingly common for insecure young women to stay in relationships when the rest of us are screaming &quot;GET OUT! RUN!&quot; from the real-life version of the audience. I tried to portray Cray as yanking her chain to keep her off-balance and cooperative; sweeping her off her feet and exposing her to the grown-up world, but acting as though he was disappointed she wasn't quite up to spec as a way of making her eager to please.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mythago, post: 1506406, member: 3019"] Warm fuzzies, however nice, don't help us improve. Author notes: 1. I really wanted to start a story with "I write this with a trembling hand..." 2. If you lived where I do right now, you, too, would hate trees. 3. I'll try to rework Danika's entries because, sadly, I didn't think it surprising at all that she stayed with Cray after the forest fire. I saw her as young, immature and more than a little unsure of herself in the world, and it's depressingly common for insecure young women to stay in relationships when the rest of us are screaming "GET OUT! RUN!" from the real-life version of the audience. I tried to portray Cray as yanking her chain to keep her off-balance and cooperative; sweeping her off her feet and exposing her to the grown-up world, but acting as though he was disappointed she wasn't [i]quite[/i] up to spec as a way of making her eager to please. [/QUOTE]

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