I have wondered about the psychology of writing and it’s effects on my brain off and on through the years sense I started to pursue writing as means of expressions my thoughts and feelings onto empty page.  Moments in life when I should and dearly wanted to scream. I did though lips hardly uttered a word because of internal nature my writing voice would scream out my frustrations, anger and sadness. I realized in some part of my youth a simple being human isn’t easy or without complications. I would learn years later that understanding how to write decent characters is complicated as well.

• advice: Write characters how human beings are. Don’t try to glorify your hero and don’t make a demon of your villain make their motivations understandable to the reader.

Losing my Dad early on in life came with it feelings of missing lessons and anger at being taught something that would come easily to my college peers moral and social framework.

I looked at them and above admiring their material and social advances I looked at my own up bringing and what tools I were taught that matter most in interconnected encounters with others. I began to write and analyze my own up-bring and the common social norms that helped in my dealings with other people. I had one skill really that I found most effect.

Manners

a person’s outward bearing; way of speaking to and treating others:

It’s a strange thing to have in this crazy time in our modern age history of men and the eroding of objective truth norms. Manners still prevail in some form or another. The social codes of how we deal with one another sense we no longer share a common thread of moral norms. So little we agree on but we all still have a internal invisible certainty that we need a sense of value recognition and respect still for the things we do though we know what we do may and will be forgotten but still no one wants to be ignored or treated like trash if they like themselves at least.

Pardon, my flash backs but there is meaning I’m heading too.

Back to writing…Characters should be believable. Be honest about how people are even when your writing about fantasy warriors with magic guns blasting away at fire demon dogs. A hero or villain of a story you write should be respected as a human being and not turned into a over dramatized demon or angelic holy figure.

L. M. Parker