Eirein
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- Posted: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 23:56:06 +0000
Soulside Journey
Eirein
Soulside Journey
Eirein
Mmm. The "Most scariest creature ever" thread just gave me an idea. Other than to be redundant to the point of wailing my cries for word count, I mean. But first! Schoolwork.
I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.
I still haven't settled on the gender of my main character, nor what my story is going to be about. But then, I can throw out the issues of having genders altogether and call it something fancy..."Tales from a Genderless Loser", or something catchy. lol ...ah, that smiley makes me want to eat an ice cream sundae.
Ohh, I did that with a book once. I tend to do that a lot and then I think, "I shouldn't, seems how almost all my charactes are genderless". I don't know why but I just love the concept of someone not having a gender.
You should go for that, it's really fun writing without a gender.
I did try it before with one of my characters, but it became hard to refer to them as "it" constantly. It seemed almost like I was lowering their importance, or making them less than human. I know I could have explored these topics in my book, but it was getting hard to go on, so I went the cheap way out and allowed my character to switch to the male gender. Do you know if I could do something to help this?
Well, with me I hardly ever refer to my characters as "he" "she" or "it" so it didn't really affect me much. So instead of saying "he" I just explained the action that was being preformed. It really depends on how you're writing it. Like first person, it's fairly easy to create a whole story of genderless characters. Third person is a little tricky, but you can explain things based on personality. Like, personality traits, or things that they do. If they're a smoker for instance, you can refer to them as "the smoker" when absolutely needed. Normally, I just use actions to describe things, though. If you want to say "It walked toward the door" you can describe it by saying what kinds of shoes it was wearing, how it walked, what it sounded like, etc. (anything that will contribute to description, everyone walks differently) If you described your character, and your characters personality has been strong before this point then it won't be an issue.
I'm really bad at explaining, so sorry.
Nono, this is very helpful. Basically, I have to work more on "showing" what they're doing, instead of "telling" what they're doing. I normally start writing without any idea of what my characters are like, except for their general personality and purpose, so this would be hard - but I think that if I pushed myself to describe more, things will be easier later on.
