continuing characterization
Aug. 26th, 2011 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliAh, the delight of a series. It's not even the major characters. My muse is firmly convinced that when a character's story is done, it's done.
But when I think that this story is not just in this setting, but features a minor character from another story. Except then I have to consider whether it works. Particularly a bit character who was therefore strongly and narrowly characterized, to flash brightly, and it didn't matter that the character was one-note.
sigh.
A series can be a superior work of art by containing all of its part, just as a cathedral can unify all its statuary and stained glass to something more. But you do have to unify it.
But when I think that this story is not just in this setting, but features a minor character from another story. Except then I have to consider whether it works. Particularly a bit character who was therefore strongly and narrowly characterized, to flash brightly, and it didn't matter that the character was one-note.
sigh.
A series can be a superior work of art by containing all of its part, just as a cathedral can unify all its statuary and stained glass to something more. But you do have to unify it.