Literary Creative Pondering
So, I was thinking earlier today, about the fact that I love the character Dexter Morgan (from the show "Dexter" and the book series beginning with Darkly Dreaming Dexter, and I realized that most of my favorite characters are morally grey or darker. Dexter, Sylar, Lestat, "Starkiller" (vader's secret apprentice). And I will admit, I love the shining heroes too, I love Peter, Harry, Louis, Luke, probably because I identify with them, but in general my favorites are the former. And then I was thinking that nearly all of my characters, the ones that I have come up with in my own scary little brain are of the latter category. They are shining pillars of perfectness from which the sun and rainbows shine out their ass. And that might be a problem.
The closest piece of fiction that I have to being finished is The Mad Queen. And those characters are much less shiny than most of what I have come up with. Now I don't want to fit myself to a mold and only write in that specific way, but I need to start looking at my characters with a critical eye and bringing out their flaws. Maybe make some of them a little less perfect and a little more selfish, or a little more cruel, or a little more power hungry, or angry, or cold. Anything to get them away from the army of altruistic robots that seems to forming.
But, even though I'm not an altruistic robot, I'm not really very dark. The worst thing I have ever done in my life is steal some candy from a Circle K when I was eleven. I can be shut off isolated, which can lead me to an unknowing selfishness, I guess. But maybe that is what it made it so "easy" to write the Mad Queen. But she can't be all of my characters.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Plans to go on a murderous crime spree that I could join for the "life experience?"
The closest piece of fiction that I have to being finished is The Mad Queen. And those characters are much less shiny than most of what I have come up with. Now I don't want to fit myself to a mold and only write in that specific way, but I need to start looking at my characters with a critical eye and bringing out their flaws. Maybe make some of them a little less perfect and a little more selfish, or a little more cruel, or a little more power hungry, or angry, or cold. Anything to get them away from the army of altruistic robots that seems to forming.
But, even though I'm not an altruistic robot, I'm not really very dark. The worst thing I have ever done in my life is steal some candy from a Circle K when I was eleven. I can be shut off isolated, which can lead me to an unknowing selfishness, I guess. But maybe that is what it made it so "easy" to write the Mad Queen. But she can't be all of my characters.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Plans to go on a murderous crime spree that I could join for the "life experience?"