All writers
do it… Most readers love it. The reason a story is interesting is because a
certain person gets thrown into awful situations and struggles to rise
victorious (or at least alive) from them. The characters in a story, especially
the main characters, are written in a specific way and get involved in various
scenarios. These scenarios can be great or awful and that depends on the
writer. You could have a great scenario in mind, but fail to give your
characters a chance to interact properly in it, make them struggle, or throw
some morality issues in there.
Protagonists
are the main scape goats, since we get to read the story through their
perspective. A protagonist should be a person that keeps moving forward no
matter what, since his/her progression ties with the progression of the story.
He/she can rise and fall, morals can deteriorate and reshape again, but he/she
should never remain stagnant. Getting stronger or weaker, changing their mind
or holding to their beliefs against other beliefs thrown against him/her. I
love my protagonists and I love to torture them. It builds them up and backs up
their actions, thoughts and power.
When
writing book 5: Eyes of truth, I had the opportunity to truly describe a person
chewed up and spit out by the entire world around him to a point that death was
all he wished for. Yet he found the courage to carry on for the people he might
be able to help. This character was the one with the most development I have
ever written. ‘’Torturing’’ a character, in my opinion, is a great way to
progress his/her story, but giving him a break here and there (a nice
relationship, friendly or romantic, a success in plans), gives the reader a
breather as well.
Let us
remember that through struggles human beings rise up stronger than ever and
become successful in the end.
(All
opinions above are completely personal and not based in any sources.)
C.T.K.
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