Characters

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Villain Lover

April 15, 2014 by Krissy Cabeen (@krissycabeen)

My son is a villain lover at heart. He may like the hero well enough. He sometimes even roots for the hero to win in the story, but when we talk about it later, or he chooses a character for pretend, or he wants to buy an action figure, he’s almost always all about the villain. I’m a bit of a villain lover, so I get it, and I love this about him, but I usually don’t go quite as far […]

Categories: Characters, Fiction, Reading, Story, Writing • Tags: bad guys, Bag Man, characters, Guidry, Lord Shen, Mrs. Danvers, novel villains, Umbridge, villains

Madame Bovary

January 29, 2014 by Krissy Cabeen (@krissycabeen)

I haven’t posted a character commentary in a while. Last time was a character I love, Ray the Lightning Bug from The Princess and the Frog. This time, it’s the opposite extreme, a character I DESPISE, Emma Bovary from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I Loathe Madame Bovary The character more than the book, but I’m not super-fond of either. Emma is among the original desperate housewives. She married young and spent her life dissatisfied, running up debts, having affairs, and basically ruining […]

Categories: Characters, Fiction, Reading • Tags: desperate housewife, horrible characters in literature, Madame Bovary

Story Lover

April 29, 2013 by Krissy Cabeen (@krissycabeen)

Life is just too big (and beautiful and tragic and magical and heartbreaking…) for one person to experience it all first hand. That’s why stories, in both real-life and fiction, are such wondrous and powerful things. Stories; Entertain, engage and help us think, relate and understand in ways our day-to-day lives can’t. Let us experience places, emotions, and points of view we’d never get otherwise and with these new experiences comes the opportunity for new insights, feelings, and considerations. Give us something […]

Categories: Characters, Story • Tags: characters, moments, Story, story moments, story power, terms of endearment

Ray the Lightning Bug

March 29, 2013 by Krissy Cabeen (@krissycabeen)

When a character strikes me, I try to think about what I like (or in some cases despise) and why. Studying characters that resonate and hearing what others think about them helps me craft better characters for my stories, and it makes me think about what people value, when and how they take action, and what any of it means at the end of the story. Sometimes character study is a more socially acceptable form of gossip, about characters, not […]

Categories: Characters • Tags: character study, fiction, fireflies, firefly, folksy wisdom, great characters, lightning bugs

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Category Archives: Characters

Villain Lover

Madame Bovary

Story Lover

Ray the Lightning Bug