Are you subconsciously writing the kind of characters that you feel like you have been missing from society and from media when you are reading or reading or watching consuming different media, are you finding that you are looking for good representations or the characters that you are most connected to? Are they on some level? Do they speak to you because of something that you haven't seen before? So, for example, I am very fascinated by characters more so than storylines
Charlie Olivieri
@Charlieri · 4:17
However, there is a fantasy novel world that I've created that I guess might reflect this a little bit more because I created basically like a home for, like, wayward witches, basically in the middle of nowhere, a huge house full of all these people who are basically found family and the protagonist. I wanted the protagonist to be something completely different, and I love Golems. So like a Golem is a creature that can be made out of anything
Charlie Olivieri
@Charlieri · 1:01
I just realized I got so swept up in this that I forgot to mention poetry, which has been my main source of creativity over the years. And I think this can also somewhat be applied to poetry because I have used it in the past to explore a very specific part of myself that might not usually get air, or it might feel taboo for it to just be directly communicated or explored. So I explore it myself and I create something out of it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 3:54
And I will say that as I've gotten older, if I was going to write fiction more, I think I would try to be more inclusive. One of the things I like to do when I write is put myself in the shoes of someone else, and that's actually more interesting to me than writing about my own experience
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:28
And by the time the little boy was an old man, they came back. And it's quite a journey. I guess I'll link it here if I can find it. But I remember thinking, when you're not self conscious, you can use writing to assume so many different characteristics inside of you that you want to blow out and really explore. And that's the beauty of creativity is you could just do anything. You can become anything. You could be anything
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 1:25
I dabble in, but don't really have as much experience on I think kind of I'm more I ran so much. I write epic novels, so it's really interesting to see how that has influenced your poetry as well
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 3:10
I feel like we writers sometimes to put more of us in the pace, and we realize I do definitely and definitely more than I intend to. But thank you so much. And I loved how you talked about empathizing with the characters and really kind of empathize and seeing it from their point of view
Tasha Frank
@NLOFrank · 2:07
Thank you for sharing the link to the Spotify. I haven't looked at it yet. I've loaded it up but wanted to just reply to you here. Yeah. I love you sharing about the stories you used to read as a child, that little boy, and how you used to connect with them. And I think there are some books that I've read over the years that I am probably fascinated with even as a child because of the characters
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 0:47
That writing prompt sounds really interesting. And I have in my own writing created characters that I really didn't like or on the surface I wouldn't like and then delved into the them and then found ways to empathize with them and relate to them. Sometimes that can be the most interesting characters, the antihero, the villains, and as an audience or readers. So I think that would be a fun, interesting prompt in itself of creating a villain and maybe even a sympathetic villain