Hey y'all. So I was critiquing somebody's writing online, and the thing I noticed about this particular work they wrote was that it was missing an integral part of all good stories: the love of characters. The sample I read was a prologue, and it was quite obvious that the characters in it were mere tools to get on to the first chapter. None of the characters were particularly interesting. They were merely there to serve a purpose, and then they were gone.
This is not the way a character is to be treated. A character is not merely a tool, but a little person living in the fictitious world that you made for them. They are little organisms, based on yourself and people you know. They are given life by your perceptions, and become more deep the better you perceive.
The trouble is, there are errors with people's perceptions. Most of the problems with the above writer's sample was the fault of one such error. He combined.
This is not the way a character is to be treated. A character is not merely a tool, but a little person living in the fictitious world that you made for them. They are little organisms, based on yourself and people you know. They are given life by your perceptions, and become more deep the better you perceive.
The trouble is, there are errors with people's perceptions. Most of the problems with the above writer's sample was the fault of one such error. He combined.
