Timeline for Writing psychopathic characters (I)
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| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | user16226 | Believable, in story terms, is not at all the same thing as explicable. Our lives are full of experiences that we cannot explain. For the most part, we don't seek explanations. Whatever mechanism it is in our brains that decides if what we are seeing or real or an illusion, it is not based on explanation, it is in the quality of the experience itself. In story, therefore, it is not about explaining things, it is about having the reader accept things are real. That comes from the integrity of the telling. Explanation will not bind up what lack of integrity breaks. | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:22 | comment | added | J. Roberts | I really appreciate your answer but my problem is the situation in which my character was put in is not something very "common" or that happens to anybody. So, even though I tried, I wasn't able to have solid foundations or facts to base my character's reason for being the way they are except for what they've been through. My concern was how believable or authentic my character's traits were. I tried to base them on real symptoms but it was not enough. For now, I've been basing my character's "sides" on different people whom I have observed or known but I just can't help but worry about it. | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 13:29 | history | answered | user16226 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |