Writing is so hard.
Everyday I struggle with getting a line on my characters and everyday I'm finding more and more things that I like or don't like about them. Is this normal? Maass says that we should write about characters we like but how are you supposed to like the bad guy? I'm mean, he's the bad guy, the villain, the bane of our fearless hero or heroine's existence.
So now I'm going back through my lists, looking at my characters, changing them to suit the needs that Maass suggests so that they are breakout characters. It's so darn hard though.
**I should add a note here that I started writing about my characters and then went off on a soul searching tangent about them. Enough of a tangent that I have finally managed to pin down the plot a little. That's definitely progress in my book.**
Currently our workbook assignment has us looking through our current WIP. Well, I really don't have one. I mean for this assignment, I have to count all the dimensions of my characters. Kind of hard for me to do since I haven't even outlined the book, much less written anything.
I was initially feeling like maybe I was in over my head with this class but actually it's kind of good that I don't have anything to go by. This will save me time in the end by knowing what I need to do upfront, rather than finding out about it after the fact. I'm already implementing some of the ideas I've learned in my character creation process.
Now I just need a viable way to keep track of everything.
