Julie Liddell Whitehead<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 12<br>How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>Carlton Dixon is no longer on speaking terms with God, through he tries to live his life right.<br>Merrilyn is convinced God abandoned her quite some time ago, so she lives as she pleases.<br>Cassie is the most pious, but she will lie and evade when it comes to her stepparents as she doesn't believe they actually love her anyway. </p><p>I have lived in all three ways over the course of my life.</p>
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EH Lupton<p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/writersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersCoffeeClub</span></a> 8/12: How does the morality of your characters differ from your own?</p><p>I am a pretty law-abiding person. I definitely don't go getting into street fights. I drive the speed limit. Vs Ulysses's "the law is a suggestion and I am notoriously difficult to convince."</p><p>I guess it's not really a difference in morals so much as a fictional character has more latitude for action. Ulysses won't lose his job if he gets arrested because I'm writing the story and I get to decide.</p>
ig 🏳️🌈<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12. How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>Lucifer is more selfish; Raphael is more duty-bound.</p><p>in the end, i had to use some artistic license and make the morality of the characters more modern than it would have been hundreds of years ago. otherwise everyone would have seemed like a hyperreligious, homicidal, child-beating alien monster, and there wouldn't be anyone good enough to root for.</p><p>(for more on why artistic license in fictional history is Good, Actually, see this blog post by an actual historian: <a href="https://www.exurbe.com/the-borgias-vs-borgia-faith-and-fear/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">exurbe.com/the-borgias-vs-borg</span><span class="invisible">ia-faith-and-fear/</span></a> )</p>
River Crow<p><a href="https://bardicperspiration.club/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 12<br>How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>Well, my current MC kills ppl for money so...</p><p>I tend to gravitate to the "rogue with a heart of gold" characters who have a somewhat flexible morality but do the right thing when it matters. </p><p>My own is less violent but hopefully just as rebellious.</p>
Rachel A. Rosen<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 8/12 How does the morality of your characters differ from your own?</p><p>They're a mess of contradictions, as am I, but those contradictions are in different places. Ideologically, I'm closer to Ian's big-picture Machiavellianism; on a day-to-day level, I'm much more like Maya in trying to do my best by the people close to me.</p>
Sean Patrick<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 8/12 How does the morality of your characters differ from your own?</p><p>In little ways, for the most part. I think all of my characters see the world through a lens that I have access to, which means the way they see the world in general isn't intensely different from me. Even the genocidal maniacs are doing it for reasons I can understand. (Not endorse, but understand.) The most alien moralities in my writing are the AI characters, who tend to take a "god's eye" view of life.</p>
Hans Cummings (he/him)<p><a href="https://chirp.enworld.org/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug. 12: How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>My protagonists's morality is more obvious than mine (of course, because you can read their thoughts), but mirror mine pretty well. It's largely the villains and secondary characters who hold beliefs contrary to my own.</p>
C. R. Collins<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug 12<br>How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>I've written a lot of characters 😀 Some are more moral than me, some extremely less so, others somewhat compatible.</p>
Jess Mahler<p><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug. 12 ‒ How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>For some reason, I read this as 'mortality' the first time I saw it. For the record, mortality is very high in Planting Life, but the characters get plot armor bc I don't like writing character deaths without a good reason.</p><p>Now MORALITY, that's a different thing.</p><p>The truth is that morality is one area where I feel like I dropped the ball on my world building. In most ways the characters morality is very similar to my own. One of the few big differences that shows up on-page is their casual acceptance of people selling themselves into slavery.</p><p>The other big one is simply the result of growing up in a relative monoculture -- they all tend to reject ideas and beliefs from outside their own traditions as automatically wrong and 'barbaric.' </p><p>Even the nomadic hunter-gatherer who is somewhat hurt by eir spouse-to-be dismissing em as barbaric doesn't hesitate to refer to the ways of 'townsfolk' as barbaric in turn.</p><p><a href="https://indiepocalypse.social/tags/PlantingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlantingLife</span></a></p>
Joyce Lionarons<p>Whoops, I answered tomorrow's prompt by accident. Here's today's:</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12. How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>My characters are devout Catholics. I left Catholicism behind a long time ago. Religion aside, I think the morality of my MC and recurring SCs is pretty close to my own.</p>
Charlie Stross<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@sam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@seharinsights" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>seharinsights</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davidtheeviloverlord" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davidtheeviloverlord</span></a></span> You need to follow the hashtag <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a></p>
Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12. How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>Ashrah's differs significantly, especially in Eternal Flame.</p><p>She's pro-slavery, has no qualms about killing anyone and outright despises creatures she deems inferior (and as the Demon of Pride, that list is long), is incredibly selfish, and is dangerously curious.</p><p>We can't blame her, though—she was born and raised in the Hells. She'll learn better, and indeed, we can already see signs of it in EF.</p>
Joyce Lionarons<p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 13. What regrets do you have regarding your work? </p><p>TBH, very few. I wish I'd had a community like this one when I started; you folks would probably have saved me from a number of mistakes. </p><p>But I don't really regret those mistakes. I did the best I could and despite all my mistakes it has turned out well.</p>
Patch Arcana<p><a href="https://furry.engineer/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> for August 12:</p><blockquote><p>How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p></blockquote><p>Almost all of them - even the "good" ones, seem to treat life significantly more cheaply than I do. But then, I write action fantasies.</p><p>I also write a non-zero number of "true" villains whose causus belli is just as corrupt as their methods.</p><p>Stories about people with the same morality as me would be boring. Well, maybe not boring, but they wouldn't make good action stories. It's something I'm playing with for my Voyageur shorts.</p>
Christina Anne Hawthorne<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12<br>differences in morality</p><p>There are a lot of characters in The Kovenlore Chronicles, & I write—I explore—the spectrum. It’d be a boring series otherwise.</p><p>My “good” characters tend to occupy a loose cluster around where I’d exist on a graph. Other characters are strung out towards the negative region of antagonists.</p><p>Keeping in mind individual differences & failings, this a battle between my idealism & my cynicism, between hope & despair.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a></p>
Author-ized L.J.<p><a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> Aug. 12 ‒ How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>My characters are mostly from Earth's pre-modern past, so they can have a bit of an alien moral code. When the noblewoman MC of my big 1st century BCE WIP runs away with the man she wants to marry, she's considered disgraced and unmarriageable despite having done nothing sexual with him--they were too busy getting away, had zero privacy and were caught that same night lol. </p><p>Nevertheless, she's considered "soiled goods" for leaving her father's protection as a maiden with an unapproved, and in fact expressly forbidden, man. In turn, she herself doesn't argue as a modern woman might that women have the right to marry who they wish; rather, she argues she personally is an exception because their union was blessed by a bear goddess of their people, a goddess her chosen man was descended from. How's that for Blue-and-Orange Morality? xD</p>
Charlie Stross<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@seharinsights" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>seharinsights</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davidtheeviloverlord" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davidtheeviloverlord</span></a></span> It's <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> — a new question for writers to answer every day.</p>
GH Learner<p>12. How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>It depends on the character. My MCs and their close friends pretty much share my morality, beliefs, and ethics. Their reactions in different situations are different though, hopefully I'm not writing myself. 😂 <br>Some side characters can be quite different, and the antagonists would mostly have some views, goals, and motivations that oppose mine.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/GL825" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GL825</span></a></p>
Sandra Bond<p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> August 12: How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>Most of the central characters in my fiction share with me a belief in the innate decency of human beings, and their ability to deal with whatever curve-balls life may chuck at them.</p><p>There are, of course, exceptions. I'm not a serial killer, for example (really, I'm not!), nor would I throw friends under the bus for personal gain, nor read any situation in the least positive way possible...</p>
Naomi Heartbreak<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 12/8: How does the morality of the characters you write differ from your own?</p><p>I don't like the word 'morality'. Ultimately, characters are not real people, they are pieces of story. I think the overall feel of a story conveys the values of the writer; individual characters do not. In my book Amber and Willem the theme of veganism is explored through the lives of the ganders and their relationship with Willem, but none of the characters is vegan.</p>
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