"Fiction should be 90% reality"
Hmmmm. Gotta remember that one.
It's true that the personalities that are bestowed on characters can seem wrong, but I suspect that this has as much to do with the readers expectations.
Which is what makes creative writing so hard.
One can usually detect that *something* is off, but it can be an exercise in futility to put ones finger on what exactly it is.
But one important thing to remember, is that writing a tease and writing a story are two very different things.
You can't get descriptive in a tease. I don't care how cunning a wordsmith you may be, if you need a page and a half of prose to get your point across, the user has already left before you get to page 2 of the tease.
I've never written a tease, so I'm guessing here, but I imagine that the trick is giving just enough information to get the users imagination fired up.
Think of it as the difference between writing a movie and writing for a TV-show.
In a movie you have 100-120+ minutes to tell a story, usually with a big budget and SFX department etc.
In a TV-episode you 40 minutes, limited budget, and you usually have to make do with what's available.
Same thing with a tease. You're ultimately limited by the images you can find, and you have to fit character introduction, story-line and finale into a very limited timeframe.
Which is also why character-development, as Incubo mentioned, is something to be forgotten.
Nobody goes from Meek-Lil-Bo-Peep to raving lunatic threatening to rip your arm off, and clobber you to death with the bloody limb.
Well, actually I have had a few dates that........ But I digress
As to the fantastic element, it's fine (and even wanted in my case), but there are limits.
No matter weird, twisted, warped and flat-out depraved the world may be, there has to be a certain amount of familiarity.
Not to mention that there are practical issues as well. There are some places where the mind may frolic that the body of the user can't possibly follow. And if one uses toys in the tease, one has to remember that not everyone has access to a fully stocked SM-basement at the drop of a hat.
"To run this tease, you will need a length of chain, 6 ft. of duct-tape, 2 horse-shoes, an MP3-player, cuffs, an eggplant, 2 cats, and a plunger"
Apologies for the somewhat disjointed narrative of the above.
Just random thoughts.
Oh, and Indigo....... If you actually stumble across a photo-series depicting an albanian beet-farmer on a spaceship, please inform me.
It would be heart-warming to know that there's someone else out there as fucking mad as me
CheerfullyInsane
"Conscience is a cur that does not stop us from passing, but that we cannot prevent from barking."
-Nicolas Chamfort