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Love is a powerful motivator. That goes for us, in real life, as well as for our characters.
This week's Action/Adventure Newsletter, then, is all about love in its many forms.
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What would you do for those you love? What would you do to protect them?
It is no secret that love is a powerful motivator. It can make people do things that they would have never imagined. Sometimes, this leads to positive actions. Love can draw a person out of their shell. Can help them overcome a fear that held them back. Can inspire them to do good in the world. Unfortunately, love can also lead to actions of jealousy, towards destruction. It can be so overwhelming that rationality goes out of the window.
The reason that I have chosen to write about love for this week’s newsletter is actually a pleasant one: I just spent a week with my sister and my little niece. I’d been concerned about our vacation together because I have a slipped disc and I wasn’t certain that I could be as active as they’d hoped I would be. I am also not a parent and have never considered myself to be a maternal person, and wasn’t certain about how to be for an entire week (eight days, actually) around a 6-year-old. As it turns out, we all had an amazing time. I’ve learned that it’s wonderful to be an aunt and yes, I was in a lot of pain because I pushed myself too hard, which I am now paying for, but it was worth it for the memories we built together. I am an anxious person by nature and yet, in the company of family members who I love, I wasn’t anxious and was able to do things and to go places my anxiety would usually cause me to shy away from.
Why, then, the dark tone at the beginning of this newsletter? Reflecting on how being around my sister and niece and about my determination for this time together to be a fun one for them made me act in a different manner than usual led me to think about novels and movies in which this concept is pushed further. Heroes and heroines who are placed in situations in which they have to protect their loved ones from evil. Villains who seek to destroy loved ones who they feel have wronged them.
These heroes and villains would not exist if there wasn’t truth in love being able to change us, for both good and bad. All of us who have experienced love in any form – love for our family, our friends, romantic love – know what it feels like and know what motivates these characters. Love for our pets counts, too – think of the impact of a movie like Old Yeller.
Love can give depth to a character. It can help us to relate to them, connect with them, lead us to want them to do well. If the character is a villain, unless they commit truly terrible deeds and are completely twisted, we may be able to understand – on some level at least – why they did what they did, even if we do not condone their actions. We may end up hoping that they turn things around, and that they will live a better, happier life in the future.
I like multi-dimensional characters. I’ve met characters in otherwise good novels who annoyed me, because they were too good, too proper. They may have been intended to be heroes, but they were completely bland and rather unbelievable. A character like that I am unable to connect with.
None of us are that boring. None of us are that perfect. I don’t know about you, but I have done some silly things in the past, and I will no doubt do many more silly things during my lifetime. Some of those silly things have been because I was in love. Like the time I was in high school and we all had to come up with a creative gift for a classmate whose name we’d drawn. I’d been over the moon that I had drawn the name of the boy I was in love with. Unfortunately, my feelings led me to think it was a good idea to make him something that was all cute and romantic and to a teenage boy that just causes sheer embarrassment, especially when all his friends are there watching him open it!
I’ve been to concerts of artists I wasn’t into because a guy I liked asked me to go with him. I sat watching a guy clean his motorcycle because I fancied him! Yes, I was silly, but when you follow your heart these things can happen.
Love, then, is a good ingredient to add to the mix of a story. Despite its use throughout the ages, there are always new ways, always creative twists and turns you can use in order for your piece to be fresh and exciting.
Good luck, and happy writing,
Kit of House Lannister
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