Random Blog Of Life

Day Fifteen

Still don't know how to start the post.
Anyone got any ideas?
Well I guess I should start with...
Welcome to week three!
Eh it will work, right?
At least for now.
Hmm...
F. Scott Fitzgerald the man who wrote the quote I put at the end of day thirteen.
I don't know how exactly to take this quote...well how to explain what I get from it.
I look at it from a writer point of view, which I think we need to look at it that way.
Each individual or character has a different type.
Even though we can create the character with how we want, we don't create what a type is. Each type has already been created, so we don't create types.
Once we create a character, we put it in a type.
For instance there are the types like jocks, cheerleaders, geeks, loners, stoners, vampires, werewolves, witches, wizards, cowboys, and a whole lot more.
Every character we think of will fall into a type that we did not create.
Sorry for saying that multiple times. I'm just trying to find a right way to say it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said in his quote that we created nothing.
Why is that?
We create the character, their backgrounds, what they look like, their age, their name, and what we want the character to be like.
Yes that we do create.
That's right, there is a but.
The but is even though the character is a person we make up, the type of character created isn't something we created. Our character just falls into it.
Some examples are:
Strong lead character with faults.
A character that is an outcast at the beginning of the story, but grows as the story goes.
There is always a type that is used over and over again.
It can't be helped.
Olivia Baker, my character who by the way has a last name now, I created or thought up this character.
I thought it all up.
What she looks like.
The background.
Her age.
Her name.
Since I have her as a person who has a hard time trusting people and has a past, that falls into a type of lead character that has been done.
Even if it has already been done, people still read.
People still read and enjoy them.
Not all the time.
We find a book that we like the story, well more like want to find out more of this interesting story that is there from just reading the synopsis.
Once we get to know the character, we either love them or hate them.
For me, I like a character I can relate to because it connects me to the story more.
I also enjoy a character that has traits I would like to have.
By traits, I don't mean looks.
I mean...hmm how to explain.
A character with confidence and not afraid of their flaws.
Those I guess aren't really traits, so sorry on that part.
I was wrong.
I mean it's how a character acts.
Sound better and more correct?
When a character has confidence and isn't afraid of their flaws, I usually think to myself that that's what I want.
I want confidence and to not be afraid of my flaws.
I would like to gain confidence.
I want to learn to embrace my flaws.
Once I do this, it will allow me to be able to love myself for me.
Love myself for the way I look.
Love myself for not being perfect.
Just love myself.
It is something that a lot of needs to do.
Just love ourselves and be happy about ourselves.
It helps gain confidence when we do.
I'm slowly learning to do just this.
Smile more and be happy about myself.
My confidence has slowly risen.
Which is great.
I'm happy about that.
Makes my smile even bigger thinking about my progress.
I guess I shall move on to the next quote.
Quote:
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
- J.K. Rowling
*Puts aviator sunglasses on*
Ciao!
~Raiden