[ SECRET POST #2088 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2088 ⌋

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Comments

[saku]

you don't have to be rude to make a point, just fyi. in any case, i am well aware that characters act as tools by which a story is portrayed. but characters are not just tools to everybody, that is my point. for some of us, they are something more than that, and those characters generally fall into the "found" category rather than the "created" one. my characters are not universally of the same flexibility and origin.

i am glad you have your own subjective opinion about your own characters, that is genuinely great, but it's not an objective, universal experience that we all share, which is something i think you are failing to understand. nobody is saying characters can't change or are their own person completely.

words have no artistic meaning without emotion or care. technical writing doesn't make a good creative story. implying that just "writing some words" is all it takes to change something in a creative work is, dare i say, oversimplifying the process for a lot of us who put more feeling into our work. you seem to be trying to apply your methods to those of us who are rejecting your statements and assuming we think the products of our own mind have gained actual sentience, which isn't true.

you are right that our characters are our construction, no matter how the character comes to us. but, by being an extension of ourselves, that makes it even more difficult to change aspects of a character willy nilly when they (in other words, us directly) don't fit well with the proposed changes. changes can't always be forced like that; for some of us, not at all. if you can change things forcefully and still put heart into your work, then that's sincerely great for you, and i am happy you can do that, but i personally can't. my heart lies in a story that feels right and good to me, and that structure and soul is destroyed when i attempt to make changes i never truly wanted.

ETA: i think going out of your comfort zone with your own characters is actually pretty good exercise, like trying to write a drabble where one of your characters is genderswapped or has a major personality change or even a disability of some sort. it helps you grow as a writer and in this case using your character temporarily as an exercise tool is beneficial. but there's a big difference between momentarily altering your character for the sake of practice and permanently installing these "uncomfortable" changes that aren't your ideals for that specific character. it's not that i'm avoiding a challenge - i love to challenge my writing abilities! - it's just that i don't find it necessary to change something about my character when it's not something i want to happen. if i want my character to be a boy then that's the end of that conflict.

you said that if your character doesn't function the way you want that character to function, you rewrite and edit things. i think we all do this to characters who don't function the way we want. but when they do function the way we want? awesome! what's the point in changing a well-functioning character because some random on the internet is judging me for having less girls than boys in my stories?