Comments on: Have You Ever Hated Your Main Character?

By: deborah.woehr

deborah.woehr — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:41:37 +0000

That makes perfect sense. I’ve started drawing up a character bio for Myra (the crazy woman in GLT) in an effort to get to understand her better. Maybe that will help.

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:38:50 +0000

My main character for ‘Hadeon’ has made some very strange choices, and he is slowly turning insane, so he is not a ‘good’ character per se, and I don’t like him, but I enjoy writing the stuff that makes me hate him, if that makes sense

By: deborah.woehr

deborah.woehr — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:07:05 +0000

I guess my problem is that I’m writing outside my “box” with GLT. The hero/heroine was good in 99.9% of the stories I’ve read. Another problem was that I’d written this for the NaNoWri contest, which didn’t give me enough time to connect with the characters.

By: pat kirby

pat kirby — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:17:32 +0000

Uh, no. First, because I’m well in touch with my dark side, I am capable of “liking” a bad guy even if I don’t like what they do. If I don’t connect with the character, can’t project myself (yep, even the dark stuff), then I can’t write the story. Without that connection, it’s just a report, not a story and the writing will be dry and flat.

By: Lee Pletzers

Lee Pletzers — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:55:01 +0000

My characters evolve as the story moves forward.