Comments on: How Your Character’s Failures Can Map A Route To Self-Growth https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Writer Strengths: How Do You Persevere? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-569192 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:31:25 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-569192 […] How Your Character’s Failures Can Map A Route To Self-Growth […]

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]]> By: Sherry https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-421149 Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:08:50 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-421149 Great post! I have so many different stories (most of them are random ideas floating around in different Word files), but one particular character came to mind. He is the villain’s right hand man, but he has been taught by the villain to be a perfectionist. He had this agreement with the villain: if he fails him, he will die. Nobody is perfect, so failure is inevitable. One day he does fail, and he Personalizes it. That is all he was ever taught. He chose to believe that his failure defined who he is. This is not true. My story was an allegory. The redemptive figure offered to give him a new identity, much like Jesus gives everyone who accepts Him a new identity. In Christ, our identity is not about what we do – it is about what Jesus has done for us. We do not have to take our failures to heart.

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420696 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:31:20 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420696 In reply to Jennifer Jensen.

So many of these posts I write are based in human psychology, so they apply to us as much as our characters. 🙂 But that’s good when we approach characterization through a real-world filter like this as it means we are creating someone really authentic! 🙂 Glad you enjoyed the post, Jennifer. 🙂

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420693 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:29:30 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420693 In reply to Glynis Jolly.

Yes I think both characters and people move from one to the next, and so much of how one reacts has to do with what the failure centers on. Some are so much more close to home than others, and so we feel more responsibility for than others.

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420687 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 22:27:58 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420687 In reply to Brmaycock.

Those hard choices are tough ones, aren’t they? But you’re right, in your gut you know when something is the right thing to do. Good luck! New things await 🙂

]]> By: Brmaycock https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420669 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:24:25 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420669 Brilliant post, very inspirational and apt for me, given that I put aside 20,000 words the other day. They will be there for me to get back to in the future when I’m ready for that particular story and I’ve now moved on to something that excites me a lot more. Your post just made me smile and reminded me that I’m doing the right thing. Thanks so much:)

]]> By: Glynis Jolly https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420663 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:11:26 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420663 Characters emerged in my mind while reading the different types of personalities during failure. My current project has a wallower/blamer and a personalizer/blamer. Looking at it from my own perspective, I’m one who recommits.

]]> By: Jennifer Jensen https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420654 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 20:42:23 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420654 This was great, Angela. My middle-grade MC is the adapt-and-adjust type, with a little selfishness thrown in, but the biggest problems are exterior ones. (His internal arc is more a question of how brave he is.)

The interesting thing is that I started reading not with my MC in mind, but me! In writing, I wallow for a bit but am mostly a recommitter – keep my head down and try to keep pushing forward. Too stubborn to quit. 🙂

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2016/03/how-your-characters-failures-create-a-recipe-for-self-growth/#comment-420492 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:47:15 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=19146#comment-420492 In reply to Traci Kenworth.

Thanks Traci 🙂

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