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Are Your Characters Believable?
Being Genuine
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Fantasy writing can only be based on real life. That’s what I think. The fantastical characters you create should have a humanness about them. It’s what makes them believable. I’ve only ever written one fantasy piece. It was a novel. It was never published. Would I try to publish it now? Oh, no. It was horrible, but it was my first.
I actually want to do it again now that it is forty-some years later, and I’m a better writer. That old dusty novel reminds me of Jane Roberts’ “Oversoul Seven.” She put a lot of metaphysical ideas in that book. Gently paving the way for the reader to see some of the stuff Seth had channeled for her and what she had experienced as an artist. Sort of a fictionalized version of the truth as she perceived it.
With all that said about characters for a fantasy novel, the same can be said of any character you create. Actually, with anything you write, whether there is a fictional story involved or not.
Be as truthful as you can.
The advantage of being older and creating characters is that you can draw upon what you’ve observed about human behavior. The nastier, the better. Yes, your heart has been broken seven times in real life. There are a couple of things that can come from something like that. First, you can ask yourself, “What the blazes am I doing that this continues to happen?” Write a book based on that question. Luck is not it. Actually, try to answer it for yourself. Don’t be a victim anymore, and try to figure out why one partner after another keeps dumping you and breaking your heart.
Maybe it was the way you were brought up? Could some sort of twisted dynamic have been going on in your childhood that you ended up with repeated broken heart syndrome? Go into therapy to get some insights. Hey, therapy is great for a writer. Understanding the human condition can only be a good thing.
Maybe you begin to learn that you don’t need to be something for somebody else. Maybe being you is more important. When you begin to change your outlook on life and your needs and objectives, they no longer serve the purposes of other people, and that support group will fall away. If they blame you for the break, so be…
