#cuba libre
week 5!
Top one or two shots of rum with Coke and garnish with a lime wedge. (NB that this drink only gets to use the fancy Spanish name if you serve it with lime.)
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This past Saturday was so much fun! Well… until somebody showed up uninvited to Cuba Libre. Anyway… I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my good friend Yesenia. Love you pretty face. Wink wink! You were such a good girl on your birthday night. Glad the drama was in the end. The night started with hibachi at Osaka, a Japanese and Sushi restaurant. This was my first time doing the whole hibachi…
One of the biggest issues that I consistently see in professional writing is this bizarre habit of stating a fact about a character only to then have that character do everythingin their power to disprove that statement.
Here, let me use a non-spoilerific example from my current show of choice: Scorpion. In the second episode of season two we’re introduced to a character named Sonia who is described as being “the only kid who kept a smile on her face” during the middle of a genocide. A statement that I consider to be utter bs since she doesn’t even come close to cracking a smile during the entirety of the episode’s run time.
If you make a definitive statement about a character’s personality, you have to back that statement up. The character has to act like you said they would.
If they don’t, then you need to explain why that statement is no longer true. What caused this character to go from a ray of sunshine to a stone-faced well of negativity?
You can’t just expect your audience to accept that statement A was once true, but is no longer true for no reason other than “the plot demands it.”
