Do your characters seem real to you?
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Do your characters seem real to you?
Do you find the same to be true of your characters? If you write about the same characters spanning multiple stories/novels, do you find this sense of reality to increase over time?
As you may have guessed, I feel that way about a cast of characters who span several novels I've written, and I suspect other authors feel the same way.
Happy writing!
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Creating a new world inside my head will fade away if that world won't be created. Writing the world I formed inside my head makes me see the creation I did. This includes the characters I have created. I don't create characters that aren't real. I write not to impress but to express.
My mom often tells me not to be afraid or be scared whenever we watch horror movies. She said that I should always think that there are movie crews, directors, make- up artists, cameramen and producers around. She said that the actor isn't alone. Yes, the actor isn't alone BUT THE CHARACTER IS ALONE. I know that she is right but I believe that when a story is created, the characters are real inside the head of the writer and the director.
All my characters and even the characters of other writers are real to me. I believe that reading books or watching movies makes a person enter into someone's head and let them see the reality of the world he created inside his imaginative mind.
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Real people - and here no offense, I count myself as well - are boring. The majority chooses to be normal, they do not want to be singled out or be the only one. Attracting attention is fine, but the three minutes of fame are sufficient. The rest of one's life is usually spent by keeping in line, or at least near the line. People care too much about consequences to stand up (still talking about the majority). They strive to be boring. Main characters mustn't be boring; they stand up, they go the roads less traveled, they reach out to their fellow beings where nobody dares to. They decide not to be boring. Real people rarely choose that option when facing major consequences.
In a way, my view contradicts with Derek's and yet fully agrees. A nice paradox. I believe that characters (if not representing stereotypes) are never like real people, but they show the audience a part of themselves. Everyday everybody can choose not to be boring. And because we do have that choice, we can see part of ourselves in them, the aspect Derek mentioned.
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Almost every story I have written draws from my life, because I find it impossible to just create a character in my head. So my characters are very real to me, in more ways than one.
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One of the most important aspects of a book yet one of the most difficult parts to conjure is creating characters that actually seem like they would exist in the real world, while at the same time putting them in situations interesting enough for readers to pay attention. The problem is that when you’re writing fantasy, it’s so easy to get lost in your world and shift the characters from the regular citizens they started as to cartoons filled with cliche after cliche.
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