Hello, everyone ^^ My name's Ace, I've literally just finished an extremely emotionally harrowing book, and I need something to fill the void. So I'm gonna try to use this site. I've been writing for five or so years, got six relatively developed characters that I pretty much consider to be my children, and don't get inspired very often, but I'm hoping this community will help change that. Anyway, I love talking about my characters so please ask me about them I've been desperately trying to develop my favourite one as of late and it's a mess. Any question helps :' )
Welcome to the forums. I'm new myself as a writer and a forum member. These forums and the posters have been great. I really look forward to seeing your posts. Godspeed!
Hi, welcome to the forum! Writing for five years... I feel like even the new people here are so experienced already So, who are these characters?
Thank you~ @Stormburn @MelimeliDev Hello! I wouldn't say I've been writing for five years straight haha. It's a delicate pattern of a year on, a year off. But I do tend to think about my writing a lot, regardless of whether I'm actually doing it ^^ My main characters are Astor, Kahil, Kryotic, Reylin, Sasha, and Shafer. Don't mind the special snowflake names, I made them a long time ago and I don't have the heart to change them :' ) They're all male because I cannot seem to come up with a good female character. Always turn out messy or boring. Or both. Somehow.
Hi Acey, I read (The Portable MFA in Creative Writing) on how to write an interesting female character. Start with an interesting character, then change the pronouns to 'her'. Try that with a short piece, it's worked for me with male characters. I get hung up on how they should sound before thinking that characters are just people, too! Ha! Anyway, it's good to 'meet' you. BTW, my grandfather's nickname was Ace...
