{"id":303,"date":"2021-07-16T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:41:01","slug":"characters-their-mental-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/characters-their-mental-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Characters: Their mental status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I am writing, one thing I like to do is figure out the mental status of my characters. I like to look at who they are their weaknesses and strengths and how the situation can affect their mental status. The mental status of the character I like it to be relatable as well as something real. I also like looking at how someone&#8217;s mental status can affect their behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do I look at their mental status? Well after I know what the situation is I look at all possible outcomes of how a person could react. An example is if a person was raped, what are the possible reaction to this event. What are the after-effects in the person&#8217;s behavior? Once I have this question answered, I look at who my character is and make a decision on what kind of outcome I want, which relates to the character\u2019s behavior. I do not like creating a reaction that does not fit my character. I find it important that the mental status of the character fits what they would do. Such as you would not have a depressive person go into a situation being opposite to being depressive. That would not fit the mental status of the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you do when building a character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mental-health-2313430_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"305\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mental-health-2313430_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=305\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mental-health-2313430_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mental-health-2313430_640-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mental-health-2313430_640-210x183.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I am writing, one thing I like to do is figure out the mental status of my characters. I like to look at who they are their weaknesses and strengths and how the situation can affect their mental status. The mental status of the character I like it to be relatable as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}