Timeline for How to identify a (personal) Canon Sue?
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| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:46 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | Using elements of real people works. And like anything, the more you do it, the more naturally it comes to you, until eventually you’ve done it too much, and you start going through the motions and repeating yourself (but without the inspiration). But that’s a long way off. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:43 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | And this mechanism/technique can assure you: ok, my character really does like that but not this, and have no sense if I write he/she differently. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:43 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | Some people love fresh tomatoes with garlic (raises hand). I can relate to that. It’s a good, vivid detail. Then you think about how a rat eats a fresh tomato — being a rat, it’ll be a bit disgusting. But that’s great. I can’t relate so well to some of a rat’s other habits. You create a character out of reasonably plausible pieces. At some point, you hopefully start to have a feeling for the character as a being, with his own momentum, more than the sum of his parts. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:41 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | So it's reasonable that the advice isn't to hear, indeed, the answer from the question "how does he feel about this?" or expect that another meander of your mind are alive by itself. I suspect that behind the advice that you gave to me there's a mechanism (a technique, like use elements of a real person that you already met) to develop characters. And I don't know what mechanism is that. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:34 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | So Rattle says that he loves tomatoes with garlic. But how can I assure this? I mean I IMAGINED THIS. There's no Rattle's mind partition of my brain. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:32 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | Well, one of the great differences between a good character and a bad character could be summarized in how deep you construct this character. So, I don't intend to build a well-developed character, but just a character for now. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:30 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | ok, we must to maintain some distance. I going to create a character now, named Rattle the Rat. Rattle lives in Australia and his best friend is the cousing of Remy the famous French Chef. I sit down with Rattle and I ask: What your favorite food? Then he answer: I love fresh tomatoes with garlics. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:25 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | "distant from 'you' " means that you can sit with your character and chat. But suppose the following: | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 1:23 | comment | added | M.N.Raia | Your commentary is the "rule of thumb" of character creation: "Always maintain some distance between yourself and the character."and all the second paragraph. This is a general point of view but still a quite good advice. But, I don't know how to use this advice (as you can see in another question of mine: writing.stackexchange.com/questions/47733/… and writing.stackexchange.com/questions/47738/…), I mean which mechanism makes you distant from "you"? | |
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| Nov 6, 2019 at 20:53 | history | answered | Ed Plunkett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |