Speaking of Gwen, she is quite unusual along your characters, in that she's not missing anything in her life. Most of your main characters have suffered some loss, or are searching for something. Was that a deliberate challenge for yourself - to create someone who is content but still interesting?
I think bringing Rhys in to it more and more has really helped to complete her world, and it's something we've developed every year. There have been a couple of times when we've nearly killed him, then decided not to, which has been brilliant, and totally the right decision in the end. Frankly, Rhys IS very killable, because it would put Gwen through so much dramatically, but eventually you realise what you've got and as a colleague of mine who worked on soap opera used to say: 'You don't rape Snow White.' In other words, you shouldn't punish your central characters to the point where they become the walking wounded.
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Date: 2011-09-23 05:54 pm (UTC)Speaking of Gwen, she is quite unusual along your characters, in that she's not missing anything in her life. Most of your main characters have suffered some loss, or are searching for something. Was that a deliberate challenge for yourself - to create someone who is content but still interesting?
I think bringing Rhys in to it more and more has really helped to complete her world, and it's something we've developed every year. There have been a couple of times when we've nearly killed him, then decided not to, which has been brilliant, and totally the right decision in the end. Frankly, Rhys IS very killable, because it would put Gwen through so much dramatically, but eventually you realise what you've got and as a colleague of mine who worked on soap opera used to say: 'You don't rape Snow White.' In other words, you shouldn't punish your central characters to the point where they become the walking wounded.