Dressing Your Characters...

I have to be inspired to write my blog posts... and usually I have one planned for today, well today was supposed to be a Greek Myth post... but I didn't want to do that, and you know how it is when you try and force yourself to write something that you don't want to... it just won't happen.



SO... I didn't think this was real inspiration, but it's the only thing I can really think about lately, I am getting some money in a couple of weeks and it's enough to take me through France and Italy, and also buy myself a new wardrobe... so all I've been doing is looking at clothes. And like all great minds, I applied it to writing and called it "research" -- but I'll say it how it is for you guys, it's procrastination.




I really do love looking at clothes... if I get upset, or mad, or angry... guess where I go... to the internet clothes shops. I have actually saved pictures of clothes that I really like so that when I get the money I can buy them. I do nothing but reinforce the gay stereotype... so, I'm sorry if you're gay and you're not like this at all.




Clothes, and Why They're Useful!




Well I assume you wear clothes every day... and why should your characters be any different. And let me guess, you don't just wear anything... you choose what you want to wear, whether it's for comfort, for style, for practicality, you choose the clothes that you're wearing.




I think a key element in creating any believable character is giving them a wardrobe that shows who they are... because that's kind of what clothes do, other than keep you warm.




I have a lot of stripey t-shirts and a lot of plimsolls (shoes)... in fact, I do have a quite a lot of clothes, but they're all of a certain type, they're all sort of similar, they all say something about me and my personality. I'm clearly not an outdoorsy, adventurous type because that would just ruin the soles of my plimsolls... it's the little things like that you need to think about when you're writing your character profiles.




Other things might include a certain colour of clothes... or habits... they might wear odd socks, they might have cute socks with bunny rabbits and carrots printed on them... I don't know... you're creative too, so use your creativity and create some characters that POP!




Do you think about clothes when writing/planning?




-Joseph




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