Tag Archives: character development
Men Writing Women
“You’re a man. You cannot possibly understand what it is like to be a woman. You don’t have the same social pressures, you don’t have the same physiology, you don’t have the same hormones, you don’t have the same emotional wiring. It’s impossible for you to understand what it is like to be a woman!” — feminist debator, Dalhouse University, Halifax, Circa 1991. I remember this quote fairly well, because it came out of an otherwise quiet coffee chat in …
When a “prop” character becomes “real”
“…once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.” — Skin Horse, “The Velveteen Rabit“ For those of us who recall the wonderful children’s story, the quest to become “real” is something that is a very tricky thing to manage for characters. Sometimes, a character that is planned to be “real” never quite makes it there in the eyes of the reader. In other cases, a character who is really just a “prop” — walks in, …
