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Since I live vicariously through the character when she/he is in my head, I struggled with pulling out the flaws and plopping them on the page. I, too, suffered from Flawed Protagonist Aversion Syndrome early in my writing career.
#JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE BARNES AND NOBLE SERIES#
He is currently putting the finishing touches on his non-fiction Web Wisdom: Godly Thoughts and Inspiration from the Inbox and starting his new fiction work-a series of novellas set during the period from 1860 to 1880.Ĭontact me at or tweet me at David! Great stroll down memory lane. He started writing about 20 years ago, and has six unpublished novels to use as primers on how NOT to write fiction. Most of that career was spent in Texas, but for a few years he traveled many other states. A graduate of Duke University, he spent 42 years as a health insurance agent. Walker is a Christian father and grandfather, a grounded pilot and a near-scratch golfer who had to give up the game because of shoulder problems. Today, LLC co-founder Marcia Richards will post on that site.Īfter you comment on my post, be sure to come back here and click on the LLC Website so you can read hers also.ĭavid N.
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I can yearn for days gone by.Įvery Wednesday and Friday one of our Life List Club members posts a blog on the LLC Website. I’ll continue building flaws into my characters-but I don’t have to like it. We won’t see it again, either in literature or in real life. But we all wanted to be found on the side of good rather evil.Īlas, that’s a bygone world. We knew the difference between good and evil. Nobody in my high school even knew anyone who smoked marijuana, much less harder drugs. If this all seems silly and pointless to you, let me point out that back then we weren’t constantly straining taxpayers in order to build new prisons. Nobody wanted to be a pure, black-hearted villain. We believed there was such a quality as good in the world, and it was presented to us in such a way as to cause us to want it for ourselves.Īt the same time, we were turned off by bad guys. The movies we saw and books we read held out goodness as a desirable quality for us to strive for. We weren’t confused by flaws in the characters we adored. The kids of my generation were exhorted to goodness by our heroes. As difficult as it’s been for me to make that transition in thought, I realize that’s what sells books and movies. In the real world, good guys have flaws, and bad guys have some good traits, and that’s what the industry demands of writers. Every writing group or conference or lecture I’ve ever attended has stressed that making characters black or white oversimplifies them and makes them boring. They just showed what made them heroes.īy the same token, they didn’t spend their time and energy trying to show us how much good there was in the bad guys. Writers and directors didn’t try to show faults and frailties in the heroes of the books and movies and television shows of the fifties and earlier. They weren’t perfect, but they were good guys. The heroes (protagonists) were GOOD guys, and the villains (antagonists) were BAD guys. This was far more than just a way of telling one character from another. The good guys (almost) always wore white hats, and the bad guys usually wore black hats. Here are some of the heroes of television and movies from those days: One of the things I’ve had the hardest time with in writing fiction is the concept of having flawed characters. Reading through it took my mind back to the days of my childhood when these two were major heroes to all us kids. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.Īn email I received this week talked about an auction of paraphernalia having to do with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.