Writing Good Characters?

Jun 15, 2008 23:00

Heylo all, sorry I haven't been around for a while- my exams have all finished now and I'm still re-adjusting to the real world ( Read more... )

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I'm only mean because I care! (And tired.) I blame the sugar coma. lyredenfers June 17 2008, 20:52:13 UTC
I'm don't put nearly as much thought into my writing and characters, which I'm sure is obvious to everyone (ADDING, because Imo is being a tool: I mean this in the way that I tend to write fluff and not highly intellectual/analytical stories). I tend to start with an character emotion or small scene and write it out from there. I like for the characters to surprise me -- where's the fun in always knowing what they're going to say/how they're going to react. There's no room for character growth in that! Well, okay, you could carefully plan out their character development, like I'm sure Imo does. But that's not my style.

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Re: I'm only mean because I care! (And tired.) I blame the sugar coma. anait June 17 2008, 21:04:52 UTC
I'm don't put nearly as much thought into my writing and characters, which I'm sure is obvious to everyone

Translation: I am naturally brilliant and don't have to try. I don't put any thought into it and it turns out great!

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PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PUPPY. lyredenfers June 17 2008, 21:26:45 UTC
Puppy says: I was walking along, all lah did dah di (I like to party) I've got a stick in my mouth and them BAM. All of a sudden it was all no stick; WORDS. They were WORDS. How did those get there? Did someone put these words in mah mouth? They don't taste no good. Oooh! Look! A ball! *wags tail*

Some of us are pin the tail on the donkey kind of people (Close your eyes and hope for the best... hey look! Abstract art! Kind of. If you stand really close and squint.) instead of a scholarly debate panel of one (coughImocough).

Of course, the beauty of fanfic is that you already have a set of parameters for your character - what they will and won't do sort of thing. It's fun, then, to explore what would push them beyond these parameters. For example, how they would justify to themselves doing something that is canonically out of character.

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Re: PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PUPPY. vivien_sivvus June 17 2008, 22:14:01 UTC
"Of course, the beauty of fanfic is that you already have a set of parameters for your character - what they will and won't do sort of thing. It's fun, then, to explore what would push them beyond these parameters. For example, how they would justify to themselves doing something that is canonically out of character ( ... )

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girl_called_sun June 18 2008, 12:23:53 UTC
I was right, it was just getting interesting! I will not add any of my own inane comments, but I just wanted to congratulate vivien on the icon. Rex the Runt was Aardmann's finest hour.

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vivien_sivvus June 18 2008, 12:32:44 UTC
YES! And Vince is both the cutest and the funniest character ever created.... someone who can marry a vacuum cleaner and catch random Pavarotti disease in the same season must be good!

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girl_called_sun June 18 2008, 12:48:12 UTC
They showed them over Christmas one year...I remember it was the highlight of the holidays, me and my brothers sat and watched every one. Remember the spaceship in Vince's body?

*runs off to ebay via youtube*

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vivien_sivvus June 18 2008, 13:06:10 UTC
Heh, yeah... that's probably my favorite episode. It's just the idea of taking a holiday inside Vince's head, and actually finding the screw that's loose! :P

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