I want my book characters to be rich and filled-out, like a landscape. The colors may be different, but the result is the same: beauty. Unique quirks that sometimes are so small, you can't notice them unless you're the maker.
If book characters could be translated into a painting, we'd have a vast wealth of completely different works of art. Some would be vivid, like a sunset. Some would be delicate and genuine, like a white flower. Others would be like black islands, unreachable and mysterious, and then if you look close you find a merry figure laughing and dancing on the grimmest cliff.
Have you ever looked at a character in a book and been so stunned by the 'picture' they created that you based one of your characters on that one? And then, your character just seems so flat and dull. You might have gotten discouraged, and maybe even deleted that character.
And of course it would seem flat. It's an unoriginal copy. Naturally the colors would be dimmer--they aren't even the characters real colors.
Don't make the mistake of basing your character off someone else's. Yes, the first character does look great, but that character isn't yours. As writers, it's our job to find the undiscovered and bring it to the world.
Izori
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What do you think about slightly stereotyped characters?
I would feel like a loser if I couldn't create my very own characters, but I am always seeing a character in a book that has traits that must be in a character of mine.
~Margaret Rowena
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