(2)Problem: While you're definitely several steps ahead of those who make no difference in their characters' acts, behavior and personalities, you still seem to give them all very "cut and dry"/"black and white" personalities that can become easily predictable and completely illogical in many cases.
For instance- it's obvious that you consider Azzanadra the "brains" of Zaros' team, but he still uses certain words that are pretty basic compared to what a highly intellectual mind such as he might use, and his personality often blends with others, like Zaros and Zamorak, and while he makes different decisions his reasoning behind those decisions is lacking because his personality simply does not fit said decision.
Solution: Personalities can be a difficult thing to master, but when you really begin to understand them they can become the writer's secret weapon.
You need to get away from the idea that "Good guys" automatically have x traits and feelings, and that "Bad guys" automatically have the opposite. Each character has to be a complex individual with motives, ideas, and an entire thought process all their own.
You need to picture yourself as each character depending on the situation they are in, and then, using their customized thought process; come to a conclusion of what to do.
Choose your wording, actions, movements and everything very carefully and be as precise as possible. In order to make the people seem real they need to act as if they are all seperate, equally capable people who's decisions can shape the world, instead of having them all just be pawns for you, the writer, who's carefully pre-dictated their actions.
It's best to base your characters on people you know as well. That way you have a constant supply of information from the actual personalities and can translate that into the characters you're writing about.
-Hope the above helps you improve so that you can become an even greater writer than you already are.
22-Feb-2009 07:50:45
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now how did raldeir get back to freneskrae after zaros killed him back at kharyll? looking forward to the next story post.
