Some writers are great at writing old characters or very young characters. They have a gift to get inside the thoughts and convey the emotions of people who are of drastically different age. Others like to keep their retinue of characters around the writer's actual age, as a sort of virtual entourage.
I tend to write stories about characters close to my age. Most often, these characters are a few years younger than I am at the time of the writing. I find it easy to convey those sort of characters thoughts and feelings; hell, it wasn't that long ago that I was their ago and still can remember what was running through my mind at those times.
Occasionally, I write a scene that has a very young character, although they are most often a flashback-type scene where one of the main characters is shown at a earlier time.
For those that want juts the numbers, the youngest character I've had a completed story was 17 and the oldest was about 102 at the time they died in another story. Although the 102 year old didn't say anything or directly interact with the other characters, he had maintained a diary that was found.
How about you? Who is your youngest character? Oldest? How about “youngest” and “oldest” in terms of when you created them?
1 comment:
It depends on how you look at it and wherever you might be coming from on the theme really. In the long run attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder, but I am with you on this one.
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