Secondary characters. Every story needs them.
Unfortunately, the primary character can suck up all the writer's energy and imagination, which leaves the rest of the cast out on a limb.
I often spend about as much time thinking of ways to make secondary characters intrigueing as I do with the main character...sometimes I wish the characters could swap roles!
Secondary characters add A LOT to a story. For instance, can you imagine the Pirates of the Caribean without those two pirates (one of them has a glass eye)? How about Prince Caspian without Repecheep (now I know I've misspelled that)?
Sorry I haven't been able to post a lot lately! What I thought would be an easy Senior year blew up in my face.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Side-Kicks (is that spelled right?)
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Do you spend a lot of time developing your "sidekicks" as you call them? I often spend weeks developing characters... so much that sometimes I get too far away from my plot with my really fun fictional "friends". Good post.
By the way, Reepicheep is how you spell it : )
-Catey
I spend as much times as I can. I spent about 4 years developing some characters! But that whole story fell through, once I think about it. :)
In my novel, I have two main characters who mostly steal the show ;) But I also have several secondary characters who add a lot to the story. My novel probably wouldn't survive without some of them ;)
I don't quite think that Senior Year and Easy belong in the same sentence together...unless we're talking about high school musical 3...then again...ugh, gotta study for exams.
Ciao
Yeah, I know that feeling, Arianna.
Hmmm maybe I should see the HSM 3 sometime.
I love sidekicks! Sometimes they're almost even better than the main characters, especially in movies. Have you ever seen National Treasure 1 or 2? Riley Poole provides comic relief during the intense parts of the movie, as well as being an important part of the film. Or Fish-Out-of-Water in Chicken Little.
Or, if you like LOTR, Merry and Pippin are great sidekicks.
You like the High School Musical series?
~Kiwifruit
I've only seen a few bits here and there, actually.
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