[ SECRET POST #2763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2763 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Creator's Attitudes Toward Their Creations

[anonymous4]

I love all of my characters, even the villains (and even canon characters, who become 'mine' the moment I start to write them); if I didn't love them, they wouldn't be rounded characters, they'd just be symbols.

My OCs usually become 'real' to me the moment I give them a name, so that's always the first thing I do, but occasionally I struggle to 'know' one, and to keep him or her in character, and then I need to find a face and maybe a voice, so that I can see and hear him or her as I write. An OC's backstory exists the moment he or she becomes real, but I don't know what it is unless it turns out to be relevant to the story.

I don't think I need to do bad things to my characters to write them well -- what if the story doesn't warrant bad things happening? -- but I mustn't flatter them. It isn't giving a character particular traits that makes him or her a Mary Sue, it's belittling the other characters to make the chosen character seem more impressive that makes the chosen character unrealistic and annoying.

And I think most writing advice is bullshit. All you really need is a shelf full of well-written stories!

Re: Creator's Attitudes Toward Their Creations

[jaybie_jarrett]

I don't think I need to do bad things to my characters to write them well -- what if the story doesn't warrant bad things happening? -- but I mustn't flatter them. It isn't giving a character particular traits that makes him or her a Mary Sue, it's belittling the other characters to make the chosen character seem more impressive that makes the chosen character unrealistic and annoying.

OMG YES. THANK YOU YES.

I agree. I see so many people who focus on traits that are deemed "Mary Sue Traits" when it is THIS that is the real problem. It's character FAVORITISM. You could create a very ordinary high school student , but if you make her the center of the universe? BAM Mary Sue.