[ SECRET POST #2088 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2088 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have no interest in changing your characters, or anybody's. I certainly don't think anybody should change their characters because someone else demands it. But I disagree with your thinking that if a character's traits can be changed and they can still work, they are "lifeless husks who have been gutted."

You seem to see your writing method as superior because you say the stories appear to you from the get-go.

Newsflash: The only difference between a "gutted husk" and a character that "comes to you from the get-go" is hard work. Most people have characters come to us from the get-go. It's just that some of us go on to change those characters, you don't.

Listen, it's possible that you're a brilliant artist who writes brilliant characters from the get-go. I'm not being condescending. I have my skills; that might be yours. But for the majority of people, I think what you are suggesting is a bad idea. It encourages them to be lazier. This works for good writers, but not for bad, mediocre or struggling writers.

My characters come to me from the get-go too. But you know what? They're never as good as they've become once I've "gutted them." Because for most people, the subconscious, knee-jerk character creation that occurs when a character "just appears" is imperfect. It's based off your own experiences, your own preconceptions and prejudices, archetypes you've encountered before, your own psychology, etc. These characters that come to you aren't gifts from god. They're from your own brain.

But seeing them as mystical gifts from somewhere else is the only possible reason I can conceive of for the average writer too not edit these characters. Because if they came from a split-second decision made by your own imperfect brain (which is not a complete encyclopedia, and does not have a PhD in Psychology), then surely every single character could be improved - made more interesting, more unique, more complex, and most importantly, more realistic - with further research, thought, and effort.

[(Anonymous)]

Let me put this as simply as I can.

What's in my head, isn't in your head. How write, isn't how you write.

You have your method and that's fine, I have mine and it works for me. However I hate this apparently, guilt laced, notion of having to constantly second guess my own mind, at all times.

My characters are from my own brain, and yes I do research. However the big thing is that well...I'm not white. So I'm not going to wring my hands, and question my characters makeup over some kind of cultural guilt.

I write what I want, and that includes white male characters.