So I am working on an assignment for school, one which I am actually quite excited about. I have to create a “learning center” on something to do with story writing for my language arts class. When I was assigned to the story writing group, I immediately decided I would do my center on creating characters. I love to write fiction short stories (although I haven’t done anything recently), and making up characters and developing their personalities, appearance, and lifestyles is my favorite part.
It got me thinking about my own traits. Sometimes I wish I could create my own “me” character. I am in no way dissing my creator, but how nice would it be to modify the things about yourself that seem to always get you into trouble throughout your story. For me, it’s always the same traits and quirks that seem to work against me. If my life were a story, I would be the type of character that keeps getting herself into the same sort of trouble again and again and again, but can never get out of that cycle. Yet the whole time the reader is yelling at the book saying, “What are you doing! Stop doing that already!” It’s comical yet sad. I feel like that character, trapped in the cycle of behavior, not able to escape the irony of the situation. I am desperately waiting for the climax of the plot, where everything finally falls into place. The light bulb moment. I’m waiting…..waiting….any time now…
