Discomfort and Evolving

I watched Black Panther, and I liked it enough. Some are going to criticize things like the political and social messaging of the movie, but I thought that as a story, it was fun. It moved forward well and felt well-paced. I actually have a problem with my stories in that they constantly just keep moving forward, but I can’t seem to have my characters just stop and smell the roses. I always feel that my characters just have to always be doing “something” and always in a state of action, for the most part.

Maybe that’s just my style of writing, or maybe that’s something that I’m going to have to improve upon. My comfort zone in my stories is in constant action, so I may have to get out of my comfort zone and have my characters just sit around and tell stories or something. I guess that it’s good in constantly being uncomfortable, as that’ll keep my writing sharp and evolving.

I feel that movies and some media, in general, haven’t been evolving very much. We’re seeing a good number of reboots and a lack of new approaches at times. I don’t think that anyone has to necessarily reinvent the wheel, as I personally value execution and characters more than anything else in story.