Wednesday, June 04, 2003
Characterization
What is particularly disturbing is when I write a character who's emotional life is based largely on my own and then to have some person, perhaps a member of a critique group, tell me just how lonely and desperate my chartacter is, and how my character would do anything just to know that someone wanted her, if only for a quickie in a grimy alley outside some gay dance club. I was happy, because it helped me clarify my character's motivation and gave her depth... at the same time I realized that maybe my plan of finding a girlfriend by becoming a famous writer isn't going to work out like I had hoped.
