Introduction To My Fiction Portfolio:
I love creating characters. At school, I was sent to see a child psychologist, I made up so many alternate personalities (true story – but you’ll have to wait for the movie to come out to find out what happened). Of course, that just made me do it all the more.
It didn’t occur to me until many years later that well developed characters form the nucleus of fiction writing. And the more involved I become in the fiction world, the more I hear about the differences between story telling media; movies, TV, games, comics – the rules of creation seem to vary wildly.
About once a day, therefore, I stop and wonder why I find myself increasingly discovering the opposite to be true. The more work I do in different brands of story telling, the more I see a set of core principles bonding all forms of fantasy and drama together; from daydreaming to epic literature. The particulars of a project might change (but that’s true of one comic to the next, one movie to the next), yet the essence remains the same: characters create stories, regardless of how that story is told.
Then again, there’s so many books available to exemplify the apparently massive differences between mediums it kinda makes me wonder if it’s me, and not everyone else, that’s confused. To overcome this mental barrier, I stopped reading all these books (that invariably begin with the sentence “[Insert Author's Speciality Here] style of writing is the hardest to succeed at, yet the most rewarding” You see – I’ve read ‘em all, and that’s how my book (about writing book writing) will begin), saved a bit of cash and spent more time writing. Seemed to help.
So I find myself very fortunate that character development is what I love, as this is the key to all forms of audio and visual entertainment for anyone who’s overcome the necessity to absorb books about writing, which seem a bit contrary to their own purpose anyway.
To see samples from each fiction medium I’ve worked in, please follow these links: