Greetings, Ink Jars, Professor Lewis here! Today I shall discuss a subject today as apposed to providing you a lesson. We will discuss an affect of being a writer that I often fall prey to.
Being a control freak. I hadn't thought of this before today but now that I have, it seems obvious. Many people are labeled as "Control Freaks." They want to control everything in their life. I can be this way in some things (as I'm sure you can too). Perhaps, the reason we (not just as people), but as writers want to control things and people in our actual lives is that we can control everything in our fictional lives. We control what our protagonists do, what our antagonists do, what our worlds do, what our creatures do, what our plots do! Even though we may not always like what they do, we can always "Control" it.
I guess the real question is: which came first? The need to control or the writing which lead to that? I know, I'm getting truly deep today. Say that I'm developing my character as a person. You're writers though, you know how to handle psychology. Our basic goal as a writer is to mirror true human psychology perfectly in the appropriate situation. That is what a drama instructor told me many a moon ago. We need to "fool our reader into thinking we are these characters, we have seen these things."
This is kind of a different chapter. I'm not giving any advice, just an interesting idea. Tell me what you think and if you want more chapters like this. I'm constantly thinking up new intriguing writer quirks and have many a deep random revelation.
Your Faithful Writer, Professor Lewis
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