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March Madness
Let us consider adding a bit of "madness" into our characters. Perhaps just a bit.
I hear a lot about March Madness during the Month of March. I know it has to do with basketball, but I can't help but think of the madness and pinching that goes on during St. Patrick's Day, especially if one is not wearing green. Some pinch bruises can last until the end of the month, that is for sure!
However, I speak of a different kind of madness. My family and I had the pleasure of being served by one mad, mad character at the Magic Time Machine restaurant this last weekend; none other than the Mad Hatter, of course. Our hatter was female, but she was certainly still mad, and she kept to character incredibly well.
I think many of our stories could do with a little madness, but I see it in few of the ones I read on WdC. If I think back to my most favorite mad, mad characters, let's consider Golem, from Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; or if you want to go the creepy route, the clone in Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz. There's Don Quixote, Gregor Samsa, Hamlet, Captain Ahab... there are so many crazy characters out there, and they have certainly made their mark on the world and in literature.
I think many of us (certainly myself) may avoid the concept of madness in fear that we might portray it too well, or that we might create a character that others look at, and then wonder if we, too, think the same sort of way. I promise, creating a mad character does not make us mad ourselves. Unless, perhaps, you are a hatter.
Another thing to consider is that the madness can be tempered. They need not be completely and totally mad, just... maybe a little bit mad. We are all that, are we not?
For this March, I challenge you to put some madness into one of your characters, or perhaps (like Into the Looking Glass and Alice in Wonderland)... all of them! |
Enjoy these items with mad, mad characters... or is it the writers? Ah, we shall see!
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