Are you always writing the same types of characters? Try someone new in your fiction writing!
Try someone new in your fiction writing!
Are you continually writing from points of view of people who are very recognizable to you or with whom you feel very much at home?
If so, it's time to change! Rattle things up a bit in your creative landscape.
Here are some thoughts which may or may not seem outrageous to you:
Write from the point of view of:
a thief
a woman giving birth
a man who is dying
a medieval crusader
a teenager who is being pressured to take drugs
a teenager who is being pressured to have sex before he or she is ready
a wise old dog
a woman condemned to burn at the stake as a witch
a child in the midst of war who finds herself lost without parents.
a interrogator of the enemy during war time
a man or woman who has visions but isn't crazy
these just came to my mind.
Do you have any ideas?
Click "comment" below and share your new and never before considered characters!
Are you continually writing from points of view of people who are very recognizable to you or with whom you feel very much at home?
If so, it's time to change! Rattle things up a bit in your creative landscape.
Here are some thoughts which may or may not seem outrageous to you:
Write from the point of view of:
a thief
a woman giving birth
a man who is dying
a medieval crusader
a teenager who is being pressured to take drugs
a teenager who is being pressured to have sex before he or she is ready
a wise old dog
a woman condemned to burn at the stake as a witch
a child in the midst of war who finds herself lost without parents.
a interrogator of the enemy during war time
a man or woman who has visions but isn't crazy
these just came to my mind.
Do you have any ideas?
Click "comment" below and share your new and never before considered characters!
posted by Emily Hanlon at
1/26/2005 09:18:00 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting prompt. I am finding as I continue writing about my childhood, and get deeper, that some of the characters are people I would not have thought of writing about. For example, a crazed mother with delusional fantasies. I don't know what else will come. But as I discover this woman, she is still human, and cares about her clothes and house and church. Fascinating. Probably most of my characters, if I go deep enough, have facets that are not politically correct and that I will have to be brave to get into.
Who knows what comes next. The other night I signed an email to a friend as "daughter of the witch" which shocked me. But it was so on the money about the relationship. I hope more people comment. It's fascinating to me what people discover as they dive into their writing lives. The frightening thing is that these people are part of me. And I live with them, but it seems so hard to write about them. I'd like us all to come out of the closet. Claire
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