A "thank you" to the board for RS help

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I wanted to thank many of you for the several discussions over the past decade about the Relationship Story. It has been a difficult thing to wrap my head around, being very Male / Linear. A definite, obvious thanks to @jhull, but also a specific thanks to @mlucas for a specific comment:

I’ve been struggling recently with brainstorming how a RS Signpost of Conscious would work in my story. I was stuck thinking about beliefs and opinions that could be troubling the relationship. I also considered, “what does the relationship believe about itself that is problematic,” and while that held some possibilities, nothing really clicked.

But then I searched the forum for RS discussions and found a bit from Mike about how the conflict in a relationship could be something that the relationship doesn’t like. And just that simple reframe opened things up. I started thinking, “maybe the relationship, at this point of the story, doesn’t like what other people know or think about it – it doesn’t like the Conscious attention it is receiving. So when the relationship is public, it pulls apart, but when it’s truly private, it grows closer again.”

And that thought just started writing scenes on its own, as (bonus!) it made perfect sense with the characters involved.

So thanks again! I know it’s been quiet here for a while, but I still check in and read and look up past topics :slight_smile:

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That’s awesome @LunarDynasty !

It’s funny how beneficial it can be to think of the relationship as a character/person, that can actually like or dislike something. It feels so weird at first, you kind of need to find your own way of visualizing that. Even then, it’s still not always easy to pin down a particular relationship – similar to fully grasping any character, their motivations and core beliefs. But when you find the right way of looking at it, it clicks!

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