Comments on: Making Heroes Heroic–Why Flaws are Important

By: xxjboundsxx

xxjboundsxx — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:04:33 +0000

I don’t write Novels, but I write Screenplays. But everything you say still applies. If a character is so perfect they shouldn’t even be a character at all because they’ll never drive a story and plot will never come. My favorite character’s are the one’s who constantly fail, but never give up until they finally see the light and why they fail. I can relate to that. A passive-aggressive character doesn’t do much, although at the beginning of your story they can be that, but a whole story of them being that would be boring.

All Indiana Jones did was fail. He wasn’t a failure, but he failed alot. There is a difference. It took me quite a while of learning how to make character’s human, believable and relateable. It took me being more observant of life, movies and reading Screenplays to get it to turn a light on in my brain

Some people are all talk and no action. Some are are action and give up, but then there are those who never quit, learn, adapt and have a revelation of why they did what they were doing and now they do something different to get results. No matter the story. From Comedies to Action. I want a character to learn and I love learning myself. I lie solving something, so I have my character’s solve something. I have things in my life I don’t see about myself. Good and bad. Needs,etc.. I see that in others and I it should be in every character we write.

By: Barry Hoffman

Barry Hoffman — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:11:36 +0000

I can’t agree with the author more. There are no perfect people in real life so why do we want to see perfect people in what we read. Flaws help the reader relate to the character. The new versions of a number of comic super heroes show all of them have flaws galore. Batman and Spiderman have flaws. It makes them more relatable. In my Sharma Chronicles series a number of heroic characters have flaws galore. As the series unwinds some of the characters over come SOME of their flaws (never all) while some succomb to their flaws. Characters without flaws doesn’t deal with reality and is just plain boring.

By: melaniekoraleski

melaniekoraleski — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:17:56 +0000

I love this post! People’s flaws really are what make them the most interesting. I also tend to see the good in everyone. This has lead me into quite a few predicaments. Oh well, I guess that’s just more writing material, right?

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By: Yvette Carol

Yvette Carol — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:16:07 +0000

Sometimes I’m such an oaf. I’ve read and imbibed this information many times before. But I really needed it spelt out for me the way you’ve done here!! Thanks for the leg-up girlfriend!

By: Renee

Renee — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:24:15 +0000

Great post! I have always said my worst vice is my best virtue. In fact, when I was younger, and in a job interview, I was asked what were my flaws. I answered, “my virtues.” The supervisor threw back her head and laughed out loud and hired me on the spot.
I agree it is so important to make characters real, the Laura Croft super hero becomes boring. We need stories that show how people grow so readers have roadmaps for their struggles. That is what drama has been about since the Greeks.
Cheers to you!

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By: HankeringforHistory

HankeringforHistory — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:27:59 +0000

Crazy, I just wrote about the same thing, but titled it on a historical perspective. http://wp.me/2msZd

I find that it does a disservice to everyone to blatantly leave out details that make our heroes where we cannot relate to them. Give everyone the real story, besides, Americans love a “pulled up by the bootstraps” and “changed their ways” sort of hero!