Talk:It's Just a Story/@comment-25105261-20140627033603/@comment-4514684-20140627041737

Nah, the M in MJTR is for Michael. Donovan came to me kinda out of nowhere. It's a vaguely sinister sounding name that calls for at least a little intimidation and the idea of a powerful figure.

As for this thing and what the hell it is, I still often don't know. Artistic statement? Yeah, in some respect it is, but that doesn't mean it was a GOOD artistic statement. I've really grown out of the "humans are bastards" thing since I wrote this. I honestly think there's a lot more in this piece that's bad than good. Hell, looking back on it I don't find a lot of it all that well written. I think it just hits home with a lot of readers because "it's just a story" is something we tell ourselves to feel better. I wanted to turn that defense mechanism into a weapon, which I hadn't seen any other story try and attempt.

That and I've always found something twisted about being a writer. You could give your characters a free, wonderful world of beauty and perfection, but instead they often suffer and die for the entertainment of the reader and writer. At least myth says humans had to disobey God to die, fictional characters literally can't disobey their writer. If I was a fictional character, I'd probably be pretty damn pissed off.

Even having spoken of motivation though, don't let this harm your willingness to post things to this site. Again, while I'm still proud of ideas of this, I really don't look at the execution fomdly, and find that as a story, it's more unique than good... And given so muchof it is just torture pron, it's not that unique either.

Don't let me stifle your creativity. Like Donovan said, this thing isn't supposed to be able to hurt a soul.