I like my puppet. There's no real rhyme or reason to it, but there's something about it I really like. However, people keep telling me they like it as well, and I've been thinking about that more so.
I think everyone has a more personal connection to their own puppet than someone else's. They see a bit of themself in their own puppet, so it isn't nearly as crazed. The way I played my own puppet was radically different than how I played with others.
I also think the less realistic and "human" a puppet looks, the more psychotic and erotic they act. The less you can relate or find yourself in this physical substitute, the lower the boundaries lie. With my faceless puppet, I think people played it marginally more neurotic than I did, being someone who connected to it. Someone said that my puppet had been played sexualized with them, and that seems strange to me because it's my puppet, and when I got around to using it, that was definitely how I went about with it.
I like thinking about this stuff. How people relate to even inanimate objects and how quickly they can lose themselves in something they don't quite understand. Human nature and the like. It all matters, to a writer at least.
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Now, this is one of your best posts, in terms of the writing. This is so clear, and economical. You say exactly the right thing in the right number of words. I've often gotten a sense that you write with affectation - like what is most important to the writing is that Jessica communicates who Jessica is in the writing. In this, you communicated your ideas, and in doing so I got the clearest view of you through your writing that I've yet seen. So, this is what you have to do more. You need to concentrate on the idea - the problem solving aspect of writing, not the creative aspect of writing - and in doing so the art of your writing comes through.
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