I'm going to go check out minisinoo as you've suggested, as I can use all the help I can get. And no, you're definatly not alone in this...I'll tell you what's brought this up for me. I've been re-plugging away at my novel and I'm finding and aura of, non-humanity to some of the characters. Now this would be fine in a fantasy story with dragons and wenches and the like, but I'm looking to write a moral analogy in the guise of a historically-based fantasy fiction, and so the people have to SEEM like they are people. The human condition, I believe is how it's described.
I can do the whole "brooding and sad, yet humour-filled and good-driven" knight because I can relate to that feeling, but some of the other characters are hard to get my mind around, so I figured I would get some pointers. Lady Astelde/Adeline (as she will be known again...), if you've read the book, is particularly difficult to write because of her lack of passion for life, as well as her cold hearted nature.
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Date: 2005-10-18 02:54 pm (UTC)I can do the whole "brooding and sad, yet humour-filled and good-driven" knight because I can relate to that feeling, but some of the other characters are hard to get my mind around, so I figured I would get some pointers. Lady Astelde/Adeline (as she will be known again...), if you've read the book, is particularly difficult to write because of her lack of passion for life, as well as her cold hearted nature.
In any case, thank you for your insight.