Re: Loving your character too much
I suspect the reason for the confusion is that the OP is attached to this character because they "discovered" the character in their writing, so to them, the character is a real person. This approach has positive and negatives - the positive is that the character feels authentic; the negative is that it likely won't make for the best story.
But asking the OP to "decide" on character traits has positives and negatives too. The positive is that it's generally a stronger story choice, but the character will feel like a puppet.
What I'm getting at is, the OP's challenge is to find a way to keep the character organic as they are doing now, while at the same time finding a way to make the character organically do something that best serves the story. Which, in the case of murdering someone, seems like the last thing the character would ordinarily do.
Originally posted by Bono
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But asking the OP to "decide" on character traits has positives and negatives too. The positive is that it's generally a stronger story choice, but the character will feel like a puppet.
What I'm getting at is, the OP's challenge is to find a way to keep the character organic as they are doing now, while at the same time finding a way to make the character organically do something that best serves the story. Which, in the case of murdering someone, seems like the last thing the character would ordinarily do.
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