Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.
Rather than just making a movie about video games, I wanted to start with the character and what the character was going through.
With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.