30 Day Writing Meme - Day 2

Part of my 30 day writing meme challenge that i'm doing with my friend, Rere

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2. How many characters do you have? Do you prefer males or females?

I've made tons of characters from males to females, and when i'm making things such as characters, i'm making them as realistic as i can. I don't really like those kind of people who just made this simple drawing, writing all the things that this particular character likes and doesn't like.

For me, writing a character is more like making a person with real characteristic. You don't think about what they hate and what they like. You think about what decision they will make in certain conditions. You think about how they walk, how they talk, how they think and how they judge people. You think about their visions, their dreams and their hopes.

I didn't take this lightly. This is something serious. The joy of making a character is when you can see him/her grew up as time goes by. You can see them actually grow into adulthood.

You feel happy. In fact, it's more than happy. You feel some sort of connection with your character. That is something unique. The relationship that you have, the relationship that you've created and how you feel your feeling with him/her merge. You understand his/her mind, even though you know you're not that person, but you understand him/her. You know him/her better than anyone.

You can make a person. You can name him/her. That's the unreplaceable feeling. You feel literally like a god. You control his/her destiny. You can do anything that you want with him/her.

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Okay, i'm way into philosophy now. The thing is, i've made many characters. Those characters resemble my feelings. They are me. They are a part of me and they resemble each and every emotion that i have. I'm not saying that we're the same person either, but they are a part of me, and i am a part of them, though we're never the same person.

It's too complicated, but i think it's something that only author can comprehend.

I usually made a tough character for my females. In each of my story, there'll always be this particular character that dwells on feeling and mind a lot, someone who think about something deeper than anybody else. Maybe that's because i'm an introvert. I think about emotions, i think about feelings, and that is exactly what my character does.

I've made characters with different nationality and traits. The joker, the grumpy one, the quiet one, the tomboy, the bully and all sorts of characters.

But still, i can't make them as realistic as they can be. Sometimes i'm missing chunks of things that made them human. But then again, they're not human to begin with.

I always said that my characters are my mind. They are my thoughts, trying to break free from my brain, trying to be real, trying to gain its place in this universe as a living being, free to roam this earth and interact with other people, pretending that they're just like everybody else, a simple, living, breathing human.