Writing - Characterizations, faults and strengths (was pro/antagonist)

[Shadowstrife911]

Originally posted by The Silver-Shod Muse

Yeah, that's what happens to me too whenever I get to writing. I get bored with character development and jump ahead to the battles or the adventures. It's fun, but tiring when you have to come back and fill the boring but necessary components in. Also, you run the risk of writing incompatibilities into your story. I do it all the time.

This is a problem that I used to have a lot but as I wrote more and more, I found ways to get around it. One idea that helps is try to develop your characters within the battle (Ie. Legolas and Gimli developing that bond during Helm's Deep).

I know this might sound obvious but many people simply 'section off' their writing. I've seen many people who write that have their 'BATTLE/ADVENTURE SECTION' that has absolutley no character development. Then to go with the 1st section they have the 'DEVELOPMENT/EXPLANATION' section where the main speeches, thoughts and development takes place.