Author vs. main character?

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i have a huge problem! (well maybe for its not huge but for me its a big deal) Well here goes: Ever since i was 9 i like writing stories and drawing a lot. when i was a freshman i wrote a story and my classmates made it into a movie (inside our school) when i became a sophomore. Next school year i'll be a junior and i really want to write a story about basketball and rivalry (I like bb even though i'm a girl)

it deals with a girl who really hates her childhood rival and i want her to narrate the story but how can she know the inner thoughts of the bb players? ryt? so please tell me which do u prefer author or main character? and pls. give your reasons... :) thank you so much and Godbless...
thank you very much to mc disney and pj m. i was really confused at first i think i would like to do a comic instead of a book u know like mangas but thanks to mcdisney now i finally have a a peace in mind (my head was abt to explode deciding) well i'm still waiting for other answers till i post who receives the best answer. thanks again to those who posted and to those who will post ^_________^
 
Kim,

Your question of 'author or main character' is easily answered. It's been done many of times and it always seems to work out in the long run. You simply make your main character (YOU).

Who would know the people around you better than yourself? I'm sure there were times when you were 'a judge of character' in one way or another, right? Think of one of those times and keep that in your mind as you write. When your character is actually YOU, the writing can be very heartfelt.

Don't be surprised if one of your friends tells you that your character is YOU all over.

Good luck!

PJ M
 
So you're asking whether you should tell this in First Person Perspective or Third Person Perspective?

I've read a couple of books that do both, such as "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens. In it, he has Esther Summerson (his main character) tell the story in some chapters, and in other chapters he tells it from a third-person narrator's view. This narrator is omniscient, which means he/she knows what everyone is thinking, and can tell the reader. This is difficult to pull off though.

You might also consider having the girl "think" to herself frequently in the story. For instance:

Carrie watched the other girls go by. "I could just strangle them," she thought to herself.

You could put her thoughts into italics instead of quotes (I couldn't show the italics on this site).

Good luck!
 
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