This is fascinating to me. In Kelly's Passion Kelly uses her innate sexuality as a tool to attract both the readers and characters in the book. The antagonist has his 1960's clothing and his smoking to show his lack of style and class.
In the Survivor Myra makes the point of being underestimated as a weapon.
I had used these traits without even realizing I was doing it! I'm certain that having it brought to my attention will enable me to use this skill more efficiently in the future.
Thanks for the tip!
How about "pussyPatrician"?
Thank you, that was wonderful.
Holy hammers! Thank you for the extremely valuable lesson, and the massive piece of humble pie I'm now going to munch through. Clearly I need to spend more of my procrastinating time in this section of the forums, rather than commenting on whether I would or would not fuck the avatar above.
I've accidentally stumbled ass backwards into a static trait from my female character in my latest story, but I'm stumped on the bloke. I'm going to have to get it back up on blocks before I submit.
My latest story is a racy little piece about what happens when someone cute from work invites you over to watch Netflix and Chill. Quite a few characters in my amateur novel have static traits.
Maximus has the antagonistic habit of pointing out peoples flaws.
Dutch holds grudges but is fanatical in his loyalty.
Kestix is paranoid and always has a knife on him.
And Stryke, the protagonist, worries obsessively over those under his command.
I didn't even notice these till reading the post
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This is absolutely wonderful. I had no idea it had a name! I did not know what a "static trait" meant. My guess was some underlying and defining character flaw. Of course it can be something that might ironically be a blessing. Real life is funny that way in how things turn, but I would have never guessed it could be neatly labeled.
I am just a creative writer who does not know all the terms and tools, but I am eager to learn new things and found this very interesting, as well as insightful. You did sum up and give straight-forward examples that were easy enough to grasp onto the idea, even for someone like me who over analyzes things at times.
Thank you Morgan.
Wow. That's very perceptive and well put.
I was watching The Fosters with my kids last night (they are adopted, so the show brings up a lot of salient issues) and there was a line about how everyone has an addiction, not necessarily drugs or booze, but to things like running away from conflict, creating conflict, wanting people to like you (I've kind of got that one), falling in love, money, yada yada yada. We talked about it for awhile afterward.
Anyway, you are saying a similar thing with static traits, and how the need to overcome them can become the spine of a story, or the arc of a character. Nice. I will check out your stories!
