Chapter 27 first quarter

"The so-called character is a 'human'. "Characters exist in the novel, think in the novel, and act in the novel. Readers read these behaviors of the characters and create the image of the characters in their minds. Then, if it is not a character, but a person in reality, how is it? ?For example, there is a man named Chashui among my friends. He is a real person who can act freely according to his self-awareness. He must be doing something as he likes now, maybe he is reading a book or working. All in all , I get along with the real Chashui as friends. Now, try to imagine: I have seen Chashui, I can ask Chashui what I did today, and I know what kind of person Chashui is. Can create an 'impression of tea'. This impression exists separately from the real tea. Even if the real tea commits murder at this moment, as long as I don't know about it, the tea in my impression will not Any changes. That's another pantry that exists in my head, or what you might call the 'tea character image'.

"As for what I want to express, it is the matter of 'whether it is a real person or a character in a novel, in the middle of the human brain, the image is shaped by the information obtained'. In the human brain, There is no difference in essence between the actual human beings and the characters in the book. Of course, the real human beings have the initiative and can contact each other. Compared with the characters in the novel, they have an overwhelming amount of information. However, this is only a matter of 'quantity' The problem is, if there is a lot of information in the novel, such as the protagonist of a novel that has already published 20 episodes, then the protagonist will give the reader a stronger sense of intimacy than a real-life friend who has known the reader for a short time.

"As long as you can understand this, you will naturally know how to describe the character. Readers will use the information they receive to shape the image of the character, so we writers only need to imagine the character we want to describe and adjust the information we write. If you want to create an annoying character, you should choose a pleasing plot, and if you want to create an annoying character, you should write a plot that will make people hate it. In this way, you can control the reader's thoughts according to your own will. "But information is not as simple as Bing after all. As the number of characters such as A, B, C, and D continues to increase, the lines connecting the characters will gradually increase. When writing Z, it may even be in the author's A line connecting A and Z appeared in a place I never thought of. However, it is a very happy thing, because that character may start to do things that the author did not expect. Once that happens, the name The character becomes independent of the author and the reader, and at that point I think it's okay to treat the character as if it were a real person.

"I want to create such a character, so I have been thinking about the character."