Post by rabidbite on Oct 6, 2012 6:34:48 GMT -5
That time has come. The Odd Rabid Rabbit adventures are done.
One of the interesting things about writing something with people who comment on what you write, is that you feel a responsibility to finish a story. You can't leave it half baked or at least not get to the point, as a writer, where you want the story to be.
Well, you can leave it incomplete, but its not satisfying.
Also, I applied a schedule to my writing. I tried to add at least 1 scene per day. I kept that schedule pretty well, if not completely well. In that sense I also gained the valuable experience of writing under a deadline.
All in all, I feel this has been a positive experience.
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Now why end it the way I did? Is not that I can't think of a half a dozen "combat' endings, and some such, but I wanted to dive deeper into the 'insanity' of Rabid Rabbit. I wanted to give the Mad One a little bit more than just a 1 dimensional aspect. Not sure if I succeeded, but I did give it a shot :-)
At some point the degree of convoluted twisted logic that encompassed the Mad Killer Rabbit was so great that I couldn't just let it be the simple reaction of an abused mind.
There had to be something more.
At the same time, the Mad Rabbit suffered from the slowly dawning error of "Superman complex" IE he can be hurt but not killed. Rawwr superman.
The more time went by, the less human he became. So how to work on that? Well, why not MAKE him inhuman? Let the story flow to the inevitable reality that something so utterly twisted and resourceful as the Mad Rabbit, could not be simply human.
But how to KEEP the basic human essence of the character? By exporting it. By making the flaws that make Rabid Rabbit the monster that he is, be based in a real human frailty: distrust, arrogance and fear. A creator so arrogant in assuming it knows everything about its creation, distrustful of its creation's motives, and fearing the end of her species that she won't release the modicum of control that would free the Mad Rabbit. She won't end the cycle of death because to do so has a great and real possibility that there will be a complete end.
Perhaps she's right to distrust ...
One thing I differ completely about with the personality of the "fake" Rabid Rabbit: It isn't always about profit, but it is always about hope. Hope to achieve a goal, hope to succeed, hope to do something different, hope to do better, hope that faith exists, hope that we've done enough good, hope...
Humanity is all about hope.
Thank you for reading.
Rabidbite
One of the interesting things about writing something with people who comment on what you write, is that you feel a responsibility to finish a story. You can't leave it half baked or at least not get to the point, as a writer, where you want the story to be.
Well, you can leave it incomplete, but its not satisfying.
Also, I applied a schedule to my writing. I tried to add at least 1 scene per day. I kept that schedule pretty well, if not completely well. In that sense I also gained the valuable experience of writing under a deadline.
All in all, I feel this has been a positive experience.
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Now why end it the way I did? Is not that I can't think of a half a dozen "combat' endings, and some such, but I wanted to dive deeper into the 'insanity' of Rabid Rabbit. I wanted to give the Mad One a little bit more than just a 1 dimensional aspect. Not sure if I succeeded, but I did give it a shot :-)
At some point the degree of convoluted twisted logic that encompassed the Mad Killer Rabbit was so great that I couldn't just let it be the simple reaction of an abused mind.
There had to be something more.
At the same time, the Mad Rabbit suffered from the slowly dawning error of "Superman complex" IE he can be hurt but not killed. Rawwr superman.
The more time went by, the less human he became. So how to work on that? Well, why not MAKE him inhuman? Let the story flow to the inevitable reality that something so utterly twisted and resourceful as the Mad Rabbit, could not be simply human.
But how to KEEP the basic human essence of the character? By exporting it. By making the flaws that make Rabid Rabbit the monster that he is, be based in a real human frailty: distrust, arrogance and fear. A creator so arrogant in assuming it knows everything about its creation, distrustful of its creation's motives, and fearing the end of her species that she won't release the modicum of control that would free the Mad Rabbit. She won't end the cycle of death because to do so has a great and real possibility that there will be a complete end.
Perhaps she's right to distrust ...
One thing I differ completely about with the personality of the "fake" Rabid Rabbit: It isn't always about profit, but it is always about hope. Hope to achieve a goal, hope to succeed, hope to do something different, hope to do better, hope that faith exists, hope that we've done enough good, hope...
Humanity is all about hope.
Thank you for reading.
Rabidbite
It just tickles my funny bone real good 
