Comments on: Character Trait Entry: Guarded https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Realmwright https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-12201 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:17:57 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-12201 I have a character that fits this very well. He’s the sole survivor of an attack that razed his village when he was a child. He was tortured by the enemy and forever carries the physical and mental scars. He undergoes intensive martial arts training to try to quiet his mind and focus his discipline, but he cannot find the mental balance needed. His physical stamina and skill vastly improve, but he’s driven out of the monastery because they fear the danger in his volatile temperament. As you mentioned that this guardedness can be a hindrance – he never shakes the nightmares and bad memories and often wakes confused and scared and won’t sleep again for days. His intuition suffers because he’s paranoid that the world is full of dangers.

]]> By: mystichawker https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9351 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:47:32 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9351 Thanks for the great post. I’m glad I found this blog, and you have just helped me flesh out one of the villains I’m working on.
Awesome!
AM Burns

]]> By: Mary Witzl https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9332 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:52:30 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9332 In the EFL class I’m teaching, we’re covering personality traits right now — your blog post today is good reinforcement!

]]> By: Kayelle Allen https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9331 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:46:56 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9331 OMGosh… I am now an esteemed stalker of this site. Awesome. How could I have been writing this long and not known about this blog? The horrors! I can only chalk it up to today being Halloween… *shudders*

Thank you for an awesome post and the many wonderful resources here. Woot!

]]> By: Marsha Sigman https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9330 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:42:33 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9330 Ahhh, Roland. He may be the most tortured and most loved of all the characters I’ve ever read about.

Definitely hard to write! Great post!

]]> By: mshatch https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9329 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:03:38 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9329 I have to tell you this comes at a perfect time. THANK YOU!

]]> By: C.R. Evers https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9328 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:14:16 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9328 another great list! Way to go! :0)

]]> By: Jan Markley https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9327 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:25 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9327 Great post Angela! I cross posted it on my blog today!

]]> By: Becca Puglisi https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9324 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:58:39 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9324 Thanks, Elizabeth! So glad you found us.

]]> By: Elizabeth Varadan aka Mrs. Seraphina https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9321 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:22:52 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9321 I enjoy this site so much. I just tweeted it, I think it’s so helpful.

]]> By: Angela Ackerman https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9320 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:50:20 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9320 Thanks Southpaw, Trish & Carrie!

Ha, you know me Becca–LOVE the Dark Tower & Roland. Can’t wait for the movie!

Traci, I think all great characters need to be somewhat guarded. Definitely we need to keep the reader in mind and not create such aloofness that the reader feels alienated. Thanks!

Angela

]]> By: Traci Kenworth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9319 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:35:38 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/2011/10/character-trait-entry-guarded/#comment-9319 What a surprise and delight to
find the cover of The Dark Tower
series for your blog. Definitely
guarded characters can liven up a
plot, but you’re right we have to be
careful of keeping the reader
alienated from knowing them. My wip has a guarded character as my protagonist, I guess I love to do things the hard way. I do hope the
reader gets to know him and come along on the story with him.

]]>