“What quality do you value most in a friend?”
Kindness. Doesn’t have to be directed towards me, I just mean that I like being around kindhearted people. People make mistakes, people have bad days, they aren’t perfect, but if a person defaults the majority of the time to being kind and compassionate, even if it’s masked by a ‘persona’, then I tend to value their friendship a lot.
One of the flaws in my writing is actually I tend to write a lot of my characters to be exactly that. There are dramatic exceptions, but even with my three titans, one of them fundamentally is kindhearted, just broken. It’s a bit of an issue as I don’t want to write flat characters, and I do need to work on this. But, not right now. I’ll be honest, I;m currently in a ‘write content and rest’ loop, because I’ve been all-go for so long that my creative batteries are running quite low. This is actually one of the big advantages to 1K, because what I’ve found – for me at least – is that my writers block comes from a combination of no core project, no creative energy, and then when I stop, no routine. The routine is the only one of the three required to write, but you can have energy to write and an idea, but not get off the ground without routine. Thanks to 1K, even if I spend months writing drivel, I am always ready to write at a moment’s notice.
Still, I do want to vary my characters more. Like a lot of writers I’d imagine, I fall too often into writing comfort characters. Or, well I wonder if that is a bad thing. Who cares right? Why don’t I just write the kind of characters I’d want to spend time with. One to muse on.