Fiction Writing Demystified by Thomas B. Sawyer

Author:Thomas B. Sawyer
Language: eng
Format: epub

Character-types: More About Heroines and Heroes

Again, give 'em colors. Give 'em dimension. As mentioned, even if you're writing fantasy or magic-realism or an allegory about good-versus-evil or some other symbolic situation, make your important characters complicated. That means including-but-not-limited-to your leading men and women. Give them weaknesses as well as strengths. Conflicts. Both internal and external. Don't make them perfect. Give them those tics, eccentricities. Don't be afraid to give them prejudices and/or other problems that might make them—at first glance—unattractive—and/or politically incorrect. Remember Scarlett O'Hara, who was as irritating as she was fascinating.

Perfection is boring. And difficult to believe. It's the stuff of Fairy Tales.

But again—mysterious is good. Holding stuff back is good. Enigmatic is good.

Don't necessarily spell it all out.

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