I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
I don't like losers.
At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
Losers are people who are afraid of losing.
I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.
I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.
I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.
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