So good to hear you affirming Connection between authors, characters, and audience as a deep healing source and raison d’être for fiction and story. Isn’t that why we’re here? Whether loving our neighbor or Namaste connection, we rise together, and affirm doing so.
Hi Katie You short videos are excellent, short and concise which is very important in our days. I struggle with listening to 90 min videos, but yours are giving valuable information in a very short time span. I totally agree what you point out, writers of historic epochs have always used their subjective life experiences to dive deep and reflect them through the emotions of their characters. If we read biographies of those writers we find that many of them had very rich lives with many diverse experiences that formed and shaped those people into someone who was able to articulate their own truth as universal truth. As they reflected by their personal life the events of the historical period they lived in, readers are still able today to understand the culture and way of thinking of times long past. We are called us writers to take up that bate in our time and to become reflectors of the presence that one day will become past.
Writing is a type of acting. Having that training really helps because that's the process by which actors execute their craft also. Unless they go Method, and I've done that too, Method Writing ( modern character is stuck in the past experiencing Medieval clothes for the first time, so I bought authentic ones and wore them around while I working on the book!) But yes, we tap into our own emotional memory to give our characters life. That's essential. We shouldn't fear revealing ourselves through our creations. It's the secret sauce!
How reassuring to hear you say that it's ok to be your own subjective writer self, and that it's still possible to connect with a reader who has their own subjective self.
gosh, so glad i found your channel. Bought your book about outlining years and years ago. Now finally have the time and the cottage in Scotland (a one minute walk from the sea) to write it all right. Thank you, I really like your structured approach towards the craft. Love from Cellardyke, east coast bonnie Scotland.
I’ve experienced many emotions. Love, grief, the horror of war. They will stay with me for life and while I wish I could forget some of them, it will never happen. Emotions from books may produce change but don’t have the power to create scars. They feed us and strengthen us. When writing emotional prose, we are trying to trigger the brain’s pathways and not create a real-world experience. It’s a manipulative tactic to provide our readers pleasure. They select genres they enjoy matching their preferred experiences.
@KMWeilandAuthor I've been going through the character archetypes and really looking at where my characters fit. One thing that I began to wonder, though, is how do the Flat Archetypes fit into the Want/Need/Fear setup? There seems to be plenty of ways a character/person in general could still have these despite going through a transformative arc (e.g. a fear of losing trust from others -- Ruler, maybe? -- or of losing their loved ones -- Parent, maybe?), but it seems like these fears won't get in the way of the Truth they've now learned. So I was curious if flat archetypes can even be mapped onto Want/Need/Fear in context to the plot or in relation to other characters. I am assuming that flat archetypes will tend to hold a Truth as you've noted before. Any advice on creating deeper character setups with the flat archetype?
They say that you should write what you know, and while I think that advice is overrated, you should definitely write about your own emotional truth. You can research different time periods, different fields of science, or different cultures. But you can't meaningful research different emotional states than what you've experienced, or what you're willing to relive. That's not to say that you can't write about characters who have lived through things that you haven't, but the emotional depth of your characters is at its best when it's a reflection of your own personal perspective.
I think our culture is losing the idea of the universal human story. It would be a tragedy if it was lost forvever. We are the ones that need to revive it.
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So good to hear you affirming Connection between authors, characters, and audience as a deep healing source and raison d’être for fiction and story. Isn’t that why we’re here? Whether loving our neighbor or Namaste connection, we rise together, and affirm doing so.
Hi Katie
You short videos are excellent, short and concise which is very important in our days. I struggle with listening to 90 min videos, but yours are giving valuable information in a very short time span.
I totally agree what you point out, writers of historic epochs have always used their subjective life experiences to dive deep and reflect them through the emotions of their characters. If we read biographies of those writers we find that many of them had very rich lives with many diverse experiences that formed and shaped those people into someone who was able to articulate their own truth as universal truth. As they reflected by their personal life the events of the historical period they lived in, readers are still able today to understand the culture and way of thinking of times long past. We are called us writers to take up that bate in our time and to become reflectors of the presence that one day will become past.
wonderfully said!
I especially like the idea of the reader being the co-writer.
Writing is a type of acting. Having that training really helps because that's the process by which actors execute their craft also. Unless they go Method, and I've done that too, Method Writing ( modern character is stuck in the past experiencing Medieval clothes for the first time, so I bought authentic ones and wore them around while I working on the book!) But yes, we tap into our own emotional memory to give our characters life. That's essential. We shouldn't fear revealing ourselves through our creations. It's the secret sauce!
that's a great thought
I think it's great that you never give up and share your experiences with other writers.
How reassuring to hear you say that it's ok to be your own subjective writer self, and that it's still possible to connect with a reader who has their own subjective self.
gosh, so glad i found your channel. Bought your book about outlining years and years ago. Now finally have the time and the cottage in Scotland (a one minute walk from the sea) to write it all right. Thank you, I really like your structured approach towards the craft. Love from Cellardyke, east coast bonnie Scotland.
I’ve experienced many emotions. Love, grief, the horror of war. They will stay with me for life and while I wish I could forget some of them, it will never happen. Emotions from books may produce change but don’t have the power to create scars. They feed us and strengthen us. When writing emotional prose, we are trying to trigger the brain’s pathways and not create a real-world experience. It’s a manipulative tactic to provide our readers pleasure. They select genres they enjoy matching their preferred experiences.
How many times have you had tears in your eyes as you are writing a passage, and what are some of them? It definitely happens to me.
I've never cried, but there was one time I went so deep into the rabbit hole of understanding a character, I was broken and depressed for days.
@@QuanticDreamer can you elaborate on this please? Like what was the situation? What was the deeper layer that you have come to know?
Thanks!
Thank you so much! Very kind of you. I'm so glad you're enjoying the vids. :)
@KMWeilandAuthor I've been going through the character archetypes and really looking at where my characters fit. One thing that I began to wonder, though, is how do the Flat Archetypes fit into the Want/Need/Fear setup? There seems to be plenty of ways a character/person in general could still have these despite going through a transformative arc (e.g. a fear of losing trust from others -- Ruler, maybe? -- or of losing their loved ones -- Parent, maybe?), but it seems like these fears won't get in the way of the Truth they've now learned. So I was curious if flat archetypes can even be mapped onto Want/Need/Fear in context to the plot or in relation to other characters. I am assuming that flat archetypes will tend to hold a Truth as you've noted before. Any advice on creating deeper character setups with the flat archetype?
Please include the transcript with these videos!
Unfortunately, I can't as they run over RUclips's word limit.
KM love❤ 💕
I'm pretty sure that she's married, and I'm even more sure that you're being weird.
@@TheZetaKai yes, you are right. I was just expressing my love and affection for her not expecting anything from return. Anyways, Good day♥️
They say that you should write what you know, and while I think that advice is overrated, you should definitely write about your own emotional truth. You can research different time periods, different fields of science, or different cultures. But you can't meaningful research different emotional states than what you've experienced, or what you're willing to relive. That's not to say that you can't write about characters who have lived through things that you haven't, but the emotional depth of your characters is at its best when it's a reflection of your own personal perspective.
I think our culture is losing the idea of the universal human story. It would be a tragedy if it was lost forvever. We are the ones that need to revive it.