Which character's giving you the most trouble, or who just won't get down on the page in a way that satisfies you? Why?
Mine is Magus. For a protagonist, I feel like he's pretty dull. I'm trying to make him less boring but it's hard coming. Especially when I have more fleshed out antagonists (whoops ^^; ).
It's not really just one, it's three. They're Nikki, Mia, and Kam. They're normal humans in a normal high school "Drama" I guess. I love fantastical worlds, so I find them hard to write.
My girl Madeline is for sure the hardest for me to write. I absolutely love all my characters, but something about her just isn't connecting to me. Compared to the others, she's the least unique, and I definitely have to redesign her personality.
Jamie- he's so sweet and innocent, but strangely withstands the hardest challenges in his extremely interesting life.
Like @isabel, I have multiple that I find a bit hard to write. My top two are probably Josh and Shen, my "adult-ish" characters. They just don't have as solid of motivations or voices as my other four characters. Also, their backstories and plot lines don't tend to be as interesting as the rest of the main characters' are. I still find them interesting and useful, but they are usually naturally relegated to the sidelines simply because I don't feel like they fit into the main arc too well.
not specific, but parents or guardian figures are hard for me to write. I can't mix the line between 'brick wall' authoritative and just sounding like a teen
If I am writing a character that does not satisfy me, I go back and redo everything that lead up to me disliking the way I was writing a character. I have never allowed myself to have too much trouble being satisfied with characters, but there are certain characters I just feel dirty to write. I disgust myself when I write them. One such character is a minor antagonist of mine in a fanfiction who raped and murdered his wife. I don't necessarily have "trouble" writing morally disgusting characters, but it makes me feel wrong.
My character Mitsig is the hardest to write, not because he isn't fully fleshed out, but because he has a stutter and has autism. I'm trying very hard to make him realistic and not stereotyped in any way. It's definitely more difficult that writing the other characters.
All of my newer characters (Shane, Shana, Arissa, Lupin, Arno, and Olivia) are difficult to write, and for all but one I don't have worry about yet. But when I do introduce them, it will be so fun…
I had this one character, Saffron, and she was just ditsy, boring, and basic. Ew.
I find Ember hard to write. A shy and reserved girl who's not afraid to kick @ss if she needs to is pretty hard. Like, come on, they're nearly polar opposites. I feel like I'm going out of character when I write her. Apologetic but bad@ss, shy but daring, scared but brave.
TUCKER oh my gosh. They're like super outgoing and flirt with anyone and everyone and I can't flirt worth SHIT so it's hard idek how to write it
My main character, Marlina, has many versions of herself in the play I'm writing for and so the hardest character to write is her as a young child (aged around 5-10). It solely comes down to the fact that kids that young are just really hard to write. You can't write them as unintelligent but they can't be just as smart as the adult characters. She isn't in the play much, thank God, but she is annoying to write for
My least favorite character to write is Vivian. Even thou she has a very important part in the story, she doesn’t really have a ‘personality that sticks out’. She’s the regular girl with a mom everyone wants to kill. I think the other reason that makes her so bland is that she is dating Xavier (Who shows no emotions at all).
My MC of sorts, Sean, is my least favorite. He's emotionally deaf and takes everything a bit too seriously. I'm thinking of shifting the story's focus onto other characters more than him
It's pretty hard to write my villain in my Warriors fanfiction. He's pretty much a maniac with no regard for life whatsoever, unless you count his deceased mate.
Omg I LOVE Warriors!
Mine is my cyborg. I have no love for Sci-fi stuff and am pretty in to fantasy so I know nothing about the robotkind
Granger- he kind of has a whiny attitude, but it's in a shy way, like he's always self conscious. Usually his scenes are just him being paranoid or him saying something heartfelt and sweet, because he's the small bean of the group. It's hard to write innocent characters because there isn't much you can do with them, because everything is pure and when it isn't you know there are lines you can't exactly cross, as far as with what they say and all of that. I love Granger though, he's my sweetest character yet, and I love writing him either way : )
For pretty much everyone I have a fairly easy time writing them ( Although trying to convey the relationship between Yan Hi and Saturn is kinda hard ) but… I can not, for the life of me, draw or describe Algieba in a way I like. I just can't. I have a set appearance in mind for them but I can't get it into words nor draw it accurately enough to satisfy. It's driving me nuts.
@writelikeyourerunningoutoftime I'm autistc so I could help you out some. Like, answer questions or something.
@LYNNNN that would be great! I watched the Netflix show atypical and it really helped, but I'll shoot u a PM if I run into a dilemma. Thanks!
Antagonists are always frustrating to write for me. Erebus Thara, my antagonist, is interesting enough, but I don't give him enough depth.
For me it's the villains, not because I don't enjoy making them, but because I always love every character I create, and the bad guys in my story don't tend to survive. It is just sad when I have to kill them.
Currently, I HATE writing this one guy Devon. He's just the whiniest, most annoying piece of crap and has this whole "I'm an edgy bad boy" thing going on which I personally find insufferable. In general I dislike writing characters whose choices I can't empathise with, because half the time I'm just questioning them and criticising their actions instead of actually writing them.
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Also antagonists are hard for me to write.
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The hardest person for me to write is one of my protagonists/ love interests of the main character, Natiselle. His name is Strisen and his twin brother Kraio, grew up with Natiselle. Nati and Kraio already have a great rapport, but Strisen has to build that relationship. He's been sheltered his entire life so he is very different from his twin but I am still having trouble differentiating between the two. I want to make a huge difference between the agape love between Kraio and Nati and the romantic love between Strisen and Nati. So far when I try to write him, he comes out as a naive Gary Stu.
The hardest person for me to write is Raja. i want to make him more serious, and with when he was born in the family timeline it's hard for me to be able to get a good feel on how a person in his situation would be mentally. On the other hand Theodore is the easiest for me to write. He's a narcissistic psychopath so I don't know what that says about me but oh well.
The hardest characters for me to write is someone who likes drama. I have a very laid-back "I don't care about rumors or gossip and if it doesn't have to do with me then I'm probably not interested" attitude, so it's hard for me to put myself in the shoes of someone who wants to know EVERYTHING, especially without accidentally writing them as stereotypical and bland and annoying (because that quality doesn't immediately make someone an annoying person in real life). Same can go for a person who's curious, so basically any main protagonist of a thriller/mystery/adventure, I just don't get it haha.
Erin for sure. I have no idea what I want to do with her.
