tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859815716035905460.post586039868552884781..comments2023-10-11T07:03:07.028-07:00Comments on Wyatt at Pan Historia: Rough those Characters UpPan Historiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01784598437235690294noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859815716035905460.post-25970622102619926662008-11-30T15:03:00.000-08:002008-11-30T15:03:00.000-08:00Love your title. I'm the queen of roughing up my ...Love your title. I'm the queen of roughing up my characters you just have to check out kemsit sometime or even kemmiew. i love realistic characters with lots of quirks and flaws and i love working with heroines or rather not so heroic lady characters from history because of the challenging historical restrictions on their actions that can cause them to act in very devious fashions to get their way.Kemsit at Panhistoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06740487930156080370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859815716035905460.post-44887863421035499832008-11-29T10:05:00.000-08:002008-11-29T10:05:00.000-08:00I totally agree; I have found that to really make ...I totally agree; I have found that to really make my characters more interesting, I've got to find some imperfection, some flaw that will make them more interesting to the reader. My problem, more so in the past, I think, than now, is that I wanted them to be perfect starting out, but how boring, how mundane. that was for the reader as well as for me, the writer. Where was the challenge, where was the joy in seeing them grow? Where are those characters going to go, and how are they going to grow if there are no flaws. One of the things I've always hated about some characters, (not mine, of course) that they simply stayed the same and were the same at the end of the novel as at the beginning, making me wonder why did I ever bother finish that novel.Joiellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740158631702695243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859815716035905460.post-60407743025925773542008-11-29T07:50:00.000-08:002008-11-29T07:50:00.000-08:00Right... it's the flaws of a character we truly id...Right... it's the flaws of a character we truly identify with, not their perfections. For a character to speak to you and really feel like someone you might or could know they need to be vulnerable, sometimes ridiculous or sad, like when I made Nick have a tumble in the john when he was scared by a ghost. <BR/><BR/>But fantasy has to have some of the same elements of the real and mundane for it to truly sing and be a enthralling read.Pan Historiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784598437235690294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6859815716035905460.post-3187771191717762352008-11-29T07:40:00.000-08:002008-11-29T07:40:00.000-08:00Very very good post. One of the things that made w...Very very good post. One of the things that made writing Bayley at www.panhistoria.com for me was that I wanted her to be flawed. Very flawed. Because people are incredibly rarely perfect, and those we think are, we probably simply don't know well enough to discover what troubles lie hidden. <BR/><BR/>One of my goals in writing was to manufacture a story that was believable, yet fun, and the believability part really depended on a character that could be easily identified with by many, or at least, accepted as a person you think probably could exist in your town, or even on your street. Once you have done that, you can write a lot and still have readers accept it. The trick at that point is to stay believable, but be interesting. It's what makes contemporary writing (as opposed to fantasy, for instance) really challenging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com