tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post4198721329340654888..comments2023-11-26T01:21:35.860-07:00Comments on Mormon Mommy Writers and Friends: Are You Dressing Up Your Characters?Marianne (Mare) Baker Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03663143060069193124noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post-3975417983947760312012-10-26T11:47:55.068-06:002012-10-26T11:47:55.068-06:00(I should make it clear before I offend anyone, th...(I should make it clear before I offend anyone, though, that it's totally fine to have a character who is an orphan if there is a plot-based reason for it. To give an example, in Grimm Detective Nick Burkhardt is a orphan, which to me came off as 'sadder than thou' until it was explained as a murder and, even better, it was revealed his mother was still alive!)kristine Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08202917905756050811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7814771751990061325.post-63633498726704502872012-10-26T11:43:17.302-06:002012-10-26T11:43:17.302-06:00I just have to say, that's exactly how my daug...I just have to say, that's exactly how my daughter is with dressing up most of the time. When she wants to, she'll get very into it, but if she's not interested, she is NOT going to cooperate.<br /><br />Nice analogy with writing, too. If we're just dressing up our characters they're not going to sound real. One of my pet peeves is the small set of character misfortunes that always seem to crop up to 'give a character complexity.' Really, how many people are orphans these days? Yet in movies it seems like there's always a character who lost both his or her parents in a car accident/murder/other unfortunate event. It's so uncommon in life and yet so common in TV/movies/books that I immediately read that particular sad story as a contrived 'costume' to make the character sadder than thou.kristine Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08202917905756050811noreply@blogger.com