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This week’s Writer’s Talk is inspired by my own writing struggle- what to do when a character simply refuses to fit into your plot? In my case, I’m trying to turn a disinterested, pacifistic businessman into a freedom fighter involved in a patriotic revolt. And I can’t see how to change his heart so that he becomes willing to fight for freedom as I want him to. How do you guys fix a character that refuses to go along with your exciting, cleverly devised plots?
Well, I think I've only had that happen in one story, but it had alot of characters that were doing that, and I didn't develop them that well. So, I realized I didn't need them, I kicked them out, and that was that.
Blessings,
Snicket
Funny you should mention. I actually have a Kid in Roh now whom I hate, but for the way I brought him in, I can't very well throw him out without ruining a bunch of subplots I'd had ideas for. *grimaces* So basically I've not had this problem in an extreme before, but faced with it now, I don't have a whole lot of options to pursue regarding how to deal with him. I am going to upgrade him, I suppose, make him tolerable so that it won't kill me to write with him, maybe torture him so he'll behave. I have a couple ideas for him, he's just...GRR!
Kip
So, Inklings, what do you do when faced with a character who refuses to fit-
Is it better to go back to the drawing board and redesign the character, try and force a change on him by some drastic story event, or scrap him all together?
Well, I guess it depends. If it's the main chracter, then you will probally want to start the story over. If it is not the main character, then just somehow get him to be locked up somewhere until the end of the story, lol. God bless you all,
Yes, I know a character like that... one of the characters in my book, someone by the name of Ronald who was supposed to be a nice-tempered, rather plyable person and very helpfull - but do you know what! In the book he turned out to be an extremely bossy, lazy, bad tempered pest, but I just left him like that because it seemed to make the story more interesting - and atleast he wasn't a main character... I also know another character - the one called Philip Joe, well, he was a bit of a rebel character, when he was supposed to be a bit crazy and funny he ended up boring and perfectly normal, so I rewrote all of the bits with him in it and that made me decide to edit the whole book and since then I am glad I was able to edit the whole book - now he is my sisters' and brothers' favourite character again.
But in my book there are about seventy characters about thirty of them are main ones, and the only ones who played up were the two mentioned
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