Drifting away from the glittery allure of a complex plot to the rather less glamorous grit of a fully rounded character doesn’t exactly sound the most exciting of projects. Irritatingly, it seems the cosmic and eternal ‘ they’ may be right.
Such an irritating phrase isn’t it? So sweepingly ignorant of how back-breakingly hard constructing a convincing character out of words can be.
People, like they say, who can get up and walk off the page. Just create one, two, five, twenty or forty complete and whole people. Or, if you want to be pernickety like Hemmingway, you could say ‘ that when writing a novel, the writer should create living people, people not characters.’Īh people, well that sounds easy.
Plot is not the point, didn’t you know? It’s character. What is it exactly that makes a good character? Everyone seems to have an opinion.
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