The last positive energy I wish to mention is kindness. Kindness, in my opinion, has a lot of layers. There are different levels of kindness and different ways of seeing kindness. To some, kindness is holding your tongue when someone angers you, and others see kindness as an action done for another. Looking at all the different layers of kindness allows writers to see a different perspective of how they can portray their characters. Like are they going with their character having kind acts, or is it something else they wish to portray in their character?
For a darker kind of writer like me, understanding kindness and using it in our characters is a bit different. Because we can have an evil character show a bit of kindness, understanding how to use it can give depth to our character. Such as making our character kill kindly a person instead of violently. But it also allows us not to do something out of character of our character by allowing us to know what kind of kindness our characters may do. Such as, a killer would not necessarily have kind actions unless there was another motive behind that kind actions.
I like to think of the characters I create as something out of the ordinary. So I like to use all that I have learned in psychology, the good and the bad, to create my characters. And understanding and using positive energies and negative energies is an excellent way to develop some incredible characters.
Thoughts?
