Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.
In general, I am more interested in the darker characters when I watch or read stories.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.