Comments on: Creating Characters—The 7 Habits of Seriously Messed Up People https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:16:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 By: Writing Characters That Mirror Real Life - Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-85186 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:16:55 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-85186 […] the wound is the Alpha and Omega of reader-character connection. It supplies the starting, middle, and end points for a story structure and character arc that will […]

]]> By: Oops! Hold on. You’re Newbie is Showing. – Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-74257 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:13:27 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-74257 […] Good description is more than just the physical makeup of another character. It is telling of who that character is (the person being described) and even more importantly? It is telling of the character who is doing the describing. Description, what that character notices and how she notices, tells a lot about that character’s paradigm (how she sees the world). […]

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 03-16-2017 | The Author Chronicles https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72571 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:03:05 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72571 […] comes first, the character or the plot? Kristen Lamb investigates using a paradigm to create your character, and how that character paradigm then determines […]

]]> By: S M Spencer https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72460 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:34:11 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72460 In reply to Kristen Lamb.

Have I told you lately how much I love your blog? Just sayin 🙂

]]> By: Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72419 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:18:16 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72419 In reply to Cee.

Not really. Her lack of self-worth is being defined by her paradigm. For instance, if she is a C student in a family of geniuses, then she has an achievement-paradigm. Her worth is determined by grades and awards. If she has low self-worth because she is single and all her friends are married, she has a relationship-centered paradigm. If she feels she is a loser because she is poor and everyone around her has wealth, she is money-centered or status-centered. You can’t cop out with the “self-worth” because SOMETHING external is defining her self worth or lack thereof. That help?

]]> By: Cee https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72406 Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:23:51 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72406 Can I have a ‘self-worth’ paradigm? As in, plot shows the protagonist going from thinking she’s nobody to realising she’s somebody?

]]> By: David Anderson https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72383 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:09:58 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72383 “All great characters have their paradigm challenged then shattered then reformed.”
I love that line because it distills all the complexities of compelling characters into one memorable sentence. It really got me thinking. I’m going to start looking for paradigms in characters. But the title promised “7 Habits.” I don’t see what the seven are.

]]> By: Kristy Perkins https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72316 Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:39:44 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72316 Interesting way of looking at it. I’ll have to add this one to my character worksheet!

]]> By: Liberty Henwick https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72215 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:21:45 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72215 Thanks for all the great information, I appreciate your time and work in putting these posts up for newbies like myself. You have helped me enormously and now I hope to go and create an awesome novel. In the meantime I’m off to put in a link on my blog to your site. 🙂

]]> By: sharonhughson https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/03/creating-characters-the-7-habits-of-seriously-messed-up-people/#comment-72169 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:47:29 +0000 https://authorkristenlamb.com/?p=21225#comment-72169 In reply to Cathy F..

I am NOT a fan of killing off characters, but I have several fantasy novels that it is the ONLY way to shake the protagonist up enough to shatter their rose-colored glasses. Good luck! I wept when I killed the first guy…a mentor elf. So sad 🙁

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