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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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Re: A lot of people have been talking about "writing what you know" on this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

I think part of learning is learning how to identify with people you don't think are like you at all. Even evil ones - evil characters almost never think they're evil, they think they're right! You have to find that patch of darkness in yourself - everybody has it, somewhere. Everybody has the capacity to be cruel or violent or ruthless or arrogant or sadistic. Anybody can snap under the right circumstances. (I think it's testimony to human goodness that most people don't act on those feelings most of the time - but I've never met anybody who completely lacked them.)

I think you have to get a little bit into every character's head - how they think, how they talk, how they see the world. It's like acting, you have to become your characters a little bit. You have to find that part of yourself that's most like them, and draw on it. But I think the mistake a lot of beginning writers make is that they pick a character who they think is most like them, and then completely overdo it to the point where that character is them. They overemphasize the similarities (and romanticize the hell out of them) and don't even see the differences, much less delve into them deeply enough to make the character well-rounded as a separate person.

Re: A lot of people have been talking about "writing what you know" on this thread.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

I agree 100%! Your first paragraph is exactly what I was trying to say.

With inexperienced writers, I think the problem is that they don't set out to tell a story, they set out to write about a character (who is the writer as he or she would like to be).