[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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Comments

[sarillia]

That's how I am too. But this is also something I do for fun. I try to imagine a sympathetic argument for the Death Eaters or get into Azula's headspace and play around or whatever else.

I think other people may be interpreting "identifying with" differently than I am. I just see it is relating to the emotions they're experiencing however you can. Seeing if I can use my own daddy issues to understand Malfoy for a bit and extrapolating my feelings of rejection or whatever on other characters.

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[(Anonymous)]

extrapolating

That's exactly what I meant -- finding the experiences, the feelings, that are closest to what you're writing about and using them to seed your imagination.

I also think it's necessary to sympathise -- however briefly -- with an unsympathetic character to do him or her justice, and write him or her convincingly.

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[peablossom]

Well, yeah. You have to understand why a character is doing something before you write them doing it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I actually meant more than that. I meant you actually have to believe they're right and that what they're doing is justified. Maybe I meant 'empathise' rather than 'sympathise'...