The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.
I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.