Well, this feels weird. Beyond weird. I started writing this story in English to practise my English skills - if I one of these days actually learn this language, I thought I could go study it into university and become a teacher or whatever. Anyway, the question is, why and how did I start to write this story in the first place - you know, in Finnish? Well, ever seen the Craft? If not, go rent it, dammit! That's one mind-blowing movie, I tell you that much. I was 13 or under actually, when I first saw the movie, I think. I remember I loved it... didn't stop me from seeing nightmares though, but I loved it anyway. So freakish. I started to write my original witch story the day I saw the movie and somehow the characters and plot just got stuck into my mind for years.
When I first started writing, basically every character had a different name, looks and powers. It was a story about twins, then it had three sisters and now it's again two for reason I don't know. Someone might call what I had as "Sweet Valley High-stuff" and I wouldn't blame you, for that it was. I was a teenager, trying to deal with the kinds of concepts as 'love' and 'happiness' and you could see it. Trying to find myself and my beliefs. Everything's a bit clearer to me now even though I still haven't found all the answers to my questions... but it's fine. I'll get 'em.
So, the older I got, the more the story changed. Characters started to get dark sides, flaws and their relationships got more twisted. The final push into the darkside of the force happened when I met my current best friend, Forsaken, who helped me to understand that writing what you really want to write is not a bad thing, only makes the story more interesting and personal. Wanting to write R nc-17 rated stuff with violence and sex is not something you should be ashamed of. Basic need. So that's why the story soon got the little bit, eh, lots darker tune and the good guys weren't the main characters anymore. Look out, here comes the bad boys!
I've always loved movies where evil overcomes good (even though they make me cry and curse like hell) only because I've always thought that they're more realistic, world's not a heaven-alike-place. And also because Evil and Good are nothing more than words to me. If Finland, where I live, attacked Sweden they'd say we're the bad guys. We however would say that they're the bad guys. When I understood that, I understood that it's really about perspectives and now that made my life so much easier *sigh* (Why do I always have to repeat that word out loud and sigh at the same time?
When it comes to 'stealing others' plotlines' and such, I guess it's all about hidden messages. Well, I think every author has them in their stories. Little inside-jokes that only your friends can understand or even notice to begin with. The names of my characters have those hidden meanings and every name has a meaning to me, reason to be in my story - tale to tell, you know. Sometimes you might think it's as obvious as DeeDee Halliwell being a huge rip of from Charmed, but it's not. I was actually thinking of Geri Halliwell when the character got made up, so. Mwuahahah, suffer. Really, many of those jokes you think you get, you actually don't, so don't get too cocky. You cannot know what's inside my head, now can you? Nothing's like it seems and most of the time the jokes are meant for me, rather than to my friends.
Anyway, read and review and I'll be one happy girl.
