Failure IS An Option!

Character-Driven!

     I don't know what it is, can't explain it (maybe I just relate somehow; they say you should write about what you know!), but an awful lot of the characters I write about are people who fail, yet get in line for more failure.  Like the cow who waits blissfully in line behind his mates, unaware of his stunning fate, unaware they're about to decorate the butcher's display case, these characters keep getting their figurative man-cookies chopped off and apparently don't notice the blood running down their legs into their Doc Martens.  I don't know about you, but I find characters who keep on trying, and keep on failing, much more interesting than people who are run over by a manure spreader and come out smelling like Chanel Number Five, instead of the like a camper who needs to take a whizz and stumbles their way to an outhouse that hasn't been cleaned since 1975.  I enjoy getting in the minds of these perpetual losers (I don't find it all that difficult!) and writing about their intelligence-challenged misadventures.  Maybe one day I'll write about a character who hang glides from the cliff of doom, and doesn't panic when their hang glider folds up like an accordion in a heavy cross wind and plummets ground ward (I have two questions really; one; what did you expect to happen when you decided to take your accordion flying, and two; how drunk are you?) and yet who lands safely, with perfect hair; naw!

 

Reviews

[char]

It's more realistic, so it's believable. Plus, these kind of characters bring something to the table. I can't place it nor explain it with words, but it's something!

[Michael Stevens]

Thanks Anna; I guess they are more realistic, at least in my experience; I find the non-puppies and rainbows part of life much more interesting!

[Marie]

I guess failure can be considered an acceptable option. Certainly the characters you write about are interestig.

[Michael Stevens]

Thank you much Marie!