Post by account_disabled on Dec 10, 2023 3:58:30 GMT
Writing a story means giving depth to your characters, making them credible, real. Perhaps this last word is the one to focus on in order to create truly original characters. I've already written a few posts about characters, but this one in particular was inspired by a comment by Marcello Nicolini when I talked about the steps to follow to write a story . Eliminate stereotypes Stereotypes are a plague on literature and cinema. When we introduce a stereotypical character into a story, we don't give the reader anything new.
Even if our story is original and one of a kind, the character would ruin it. It is useless to waste time working on a valid plot if we then have to field a protagonist who has already been seen and Phone Number Data known in other novels and films. I believe that a character should introduce himself to the reader slowly, with one detail at a time. If we introduce a stereotyped one, however, we give the reader an old acquaintance with him. Stereotypes are a model used by those who have no imagination. The nuances of the characters Some time ago I talked about how important it is to create gray characters. What does it mean? Simply that there is no bad and there is no good. However, the human exists.
Each of us, in reality, has positive and negative sides. Someone has the former more accentuated, someone else the latter. And if this is true in reality, why shouldn't it be true in fiction? So let's give our characters the right nuances. Let's give them a life and, above all, a reality. He relives the dreams of published books and now, as if by magic, those dreams have lost details, are increasingly hazy, incomprehensible. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot fully relive that dream experience. He wonders why, but no one has an answer, because no one knows that he writes stories. Thus he returns to the land of writers, sees them talking to each other, laughing, exchanging advice and opinions.
Even if our story is original and one of a kind, the character would ruin it. It is useless to waste time working on a valid plot if we then have to field a protagonist who has already been seen and Phone Number Data known in other novels and films. I believe that a character should introduce himself to the reader slowly, with one detail at a time. If we introduce a stereotyped one, however, we give the reader an old acquaintance with him. Stereotypes are a model used by those who have no imagination. The nuances of the characters Some time ago I talked about how important it is to create gray characters. What does it mean? Simply that there is no bad and there is no good. However, the human exists.
Each of us, in reality, has positive and negative sides. Someone has the former more accentuated, someone else the latter. And if this is true in reality, why shouldn't it be true in fiction? So let's give our characters the right nuances. Let's give them a life and, above all, a reality. He relives the dreams of published books and now, as if by magic, those dreams have lost details, are increasingly hazy, incomprehensible. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot fully relive that dream experience. He wonders why, but no one has an answer, because no one knows that he writes stories. Thus he returns to the land of writers, sees them talking to each other, laughing, exchanging advice and opinions.