From 75747b56c6cf474e8b8ea0408bfb6459ae1c95eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vidhu Kant Sharma Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 21:14:03 +0530 Subject: changed homepage text a bit --- ...ant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md (limited to 'content') diff --git a/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md b/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84018ad --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2022/cant-have-good-story-without-great-characters.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: "You can't have a good story without great characters" +date: 2022-09-29T11:29:05+05:30 +--- + +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. -- cgit v1.2.3