Creating the Right Character

[TxRad]

The players in our stories are our inventions, sculpted from raw material of people we think or fantasize that we know. We can make them whatever we want and can achieve. Choose your fave flaws. Make your detective alcoholic, sexaholic, dyslexic, sociopathic, compulsive, bipolar, demonic / saintly, idiot-savant, albino, whatever. Perfect characters should be killed.

But perfect characters are the perfect antitheses in an imperfect world.

Yes, you can have your cake and eat her too.

But only if she is willing or enjoys it in the end. Which end is not important to the discussion.