writing character
Sep. 13th, 2010 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI was trying to write up 300 words on the personality of one of my characters from Death God Rising for a RP and was having some trouble with it. Mostly because I tend to have personality show in reaction to things when I actually write the story having just the basics in my head on what they're like. Showing, not telling blah blah blah.
As I was banging my head against the screen trying to come up with it, I realized that he didn't have an angsty past. He didn't have any big emotional trauma hit him over the head and give him a drive to do whatever it is he does. In fact, most of his problems don't even start until just before the novel starts.
Looking over the cast list in my head, I realized that most of them are fairly well adjusted human beings before the novel starts. Some of them, like the Fraser triplets, had bad stuff happen to them in their childhood, but when they're adults, they've managed to work through it in their own ways and don't spend pages angsting about it in the book.
In fact, it's only when the books start, or a few years before they do, that rocks start falling on them and causing them problems.
A rather random realization on my part.
As I was banging my head against the screen trying to come up with it, I realized that he didn't have an angsty past. He didn't have any big emotional trauma hit him over the head and give him a drive to do whatever it is he does. In fact, most of his problems don't even start until just before the novel starts.
Looking over the cast list in my head, I realized that most of them are fairly well adjusted human beings before the novel starts. Some of them, like the Fraser triplets, had bad stuff happen to them in their childhood, but when they're adults, they've managed to work through it in their own ways and don't spend pages angsting about it in the book.
In fact, it's only when the books start, or a few years before they do, that rocks start falling on them and causing them problems.
A rather random realization on my part.
