I've been working on a novel for over a year now, and it would be a miracle if I finished before the end of this year...
One thing I overlooked was my characters.
An example of what the slums might look like from Green Success (Above Image)
Often the writer focuses on the event and they forget about the character, the personality and their motives, confusing them as options...
I believe they are necessary for a story to be engulfing. The best example I could possible come up with
would be the anime, School Rumble... It has the perfect balance of Event and Character building, that it feels like I seriously am hanging out with these characters.<--- Tenam Skamato: Besides Harima, Tenma is an essential character, without her, Harima wouldn't have motivation to write his manga, and thus there would be no plot...
Harima is writing a manga for Tenma, this story line is much more interesting than Harima writing a manga because he wants fame.
However you chose to write, don't forget you characters are just as important as the actual plot. Halo just wouldn't be Halo without Master Chief...
Without good characters, the reader has no reason to care for the story, if the reader is not interested, the story is no good....
Take your time, and remember, nothing is set in stone... Haste makes Waste...
Very good post. The characters are definitely important to a story. I'm not sure how well I do in this category, but I apparently do things right, since you've liked almost every post I made on Wattpad. Thinking too critically about your own work is also bad.
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