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+title: "You can't have a good story without great characters"
+date: 2022-09-29T11:29:05+05:30
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+I am no writer myself, but I love stories, and I think I can *somewhat* critique them.
+And one of my main complaints with most stories (whether it be a book, or an anime, etc) is the story being
+too *steriotypical*. Nowadays, you read one book, pick up another from the same genre and there's a very good
+chance it's just a clone of the previous one you read. To some extent it's acceptable because you can't write a
+story based on nothing, can you?
+
+I believe you cannot completely fabricate a story. Take the fantasy/time travel genre for an example,
+you totally can predict what's going to happen most of the time. It's honestly really overdone. I think not being predictable is also 
+a very important part of writing, but I won't be covering that. What really matters is how the characters
+react to something, and how the reader/viewer reacts to *that*.
+
+Let me explain, a good story is one that keeps the reader engaged. You need to seek a reaction out of them.
+To do that, your characters need to be *very* plausible. If your characters aren't well written, it really doesn't
+matter how good your plot is. Every reader knows what's going to happen in a romance novel, but we still read them.
+Why is that? Because the selling point of a story is not what's gonna happen, but how the characters are going to 
+react to it. If you have a half assed, not well written character, no one's going to like the story.
+But, if your character is very well written, and very detailed and plausible, that's going to make the reader
+sad when the character is sad, or happy when the character is happy. Such a character 
+makes it easier for the reader to imagine the character as a real person.
+
+And I think that's the most important part of a story. If the reader reads the story and feels nothing,
+it's absoluely useless. Imagine if in a story a character dies but it doesn't matter because the reader
+just didn't bond with the character. That'd be a truly boring story.
+
+It's just something I've been thinking about, so I thought I'd share this,
+but if you're into writing, make sure that your characters are extremely well written.
+Emotional attachment with the reader is extremely important (probably applies to all kinds of 
+creative work!), which seems to be overlooked nowadays.