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I know it can work. Writers pull off making readers like unlikable characters like in Bullet in the Brain and A Good Man is Hard to Find and many, many more works. I think readers can like characters for the characters they are in these and other cases. But then you take a creative writing class and all of a sudden no one likes your characters, and they tell you it's a problem. How big of a problem is it? My characters aren't trying to be best friends with you. They are caught up in a story where I had them make bad decisions. Why do people say they can't relate to a character? Have they never made a bad decision? Maybe I can't relate to the reader for not being able to relate to my character.
Okay, that was somewhat of a vent. I am in the process of putting my thesis together and going over my written feedback. Some of it seems a lot harsher than I remember. But even if it's all true. How do some writers get away with creating some nasty characters that we still want to read about?
Okay, that was somewhat of a vent. I am in the process of putting my thesis together and going over my written feedback. Some of it seems a lot harsher than I remember. But even if it's all true. How do some writers get away with creating some nasty characters that we still want to read about?