Thoughts on heroines
Well, the title is a bit misleading, it's just my mumble/ramble on my own my characters. I've got several different stories running around in my head practically all the time, and they are mostly fanfiction. (I consider premade sims stories a type of fanfiction.) Some I've published at fanfiction.net, some I've put up here, others, just on my own
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Two things jumped out at me reading through this post. 1) You know your characters. 2) You KNOW your characters.
If, like it seems to me reading this, your characters (even the borrowed ones) seem to you as living, breathing people just kind of lacking an actual physical presence, that is how they will read to others. Like penigriffin said before me, stop reading what makes a "good" character. It has been my experience that I can usually tell when the author has worried about making their characters "good" and guess what happened? They were the most 'cardboard-cut-out-I-really-don't-care-about-these-people-why-in-hell-am-I-reading-this-book?!?!' characters I have ever had the misfortune of being introduced to.
Your characters already know who they are, they already know what they will or will not become and so do you. So, one more deep breath, forget everything you have read and just write it. You can always edit later if you think they really are one dimensional. They aren't by the way, not if you stay true to the descriptions you gave here. :)
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I've said recently several times that I can't get into playing TS2 premades anymore because the characters are so much more to me than what the game allows me to do with them. They have a much broader spectrum and more depth than [grow up, skill-skill-skill, make friends, have a romance, grow old, die].
It means a lot that, even with my little snippet up there, you can see that my characters aren't flat like I think they are. Thank you for telling me that.
I love that you keep telling me to breathe. I was telling my husband about all that's going on in my head with my stories, and when I stopped to look at him, he's got the wide, bug-eyed look of "OMG woman, stop and breathe for a minute!"
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