{"id":8872,"date":"2010-07-31T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2010-07-24T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T12:48:46","slug":"when-people-dont-like-your-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/07\/when-people-dont-like-your-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"When people don&#8217;t like your characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So your book is done, it&#8217;s published, people are reading it, most of them are liking it (hopefully).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8873\" title=\"dreamstimefree_8571973\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973-300x212.jpg?resize=300%2C212\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973.jpg?resize=1024%2C723&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dreamstimefree_8571973.jpg?w=3510&amp;ssl=1 3510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then somebody <em>hates<\/em> your character.\u00a0 Hates.\u00a0 Abhors.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll say it&#8217;s the heroine, because usually that&#8217;s who it is for me.\u00a0 Either she didn&#8217;t see the bad crap soon enough, or she had too many problems, or she didn&#8217;t think about all the things going wrong, maybe she didn&#8217;t take the bad stuff seriously enough or&#8230;.they just couldn&#8217;t connect with her.<\/p>\n<p>What then?<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean you did your job wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Well, not necessarily&#8230;at least not in my opinion, and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it on my blog more than once that I can&#8217;t write to please everybody.\u00a0 It&#8217; just not possible.<\/p>\n<p>But if the majority of the people who are reading my work are pleased, then I&#8217;m doing my job right&#8211;I&#8217;m connecting with them and that means I&#8217;m doing something right.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to satisfy everybody, and I&#8217;m fine with that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just not possible to please everybody and those who <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> connecting with the characters, if I pleased them, then chances are, I wouldn&#8217;t be pleasing somebody else.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a win\/lose situation if I wanted to look at it in that light-but I choose not to.<\/p>\n<p>As long as the majority of people seem to like my characters that&#8217;s going to be enough for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image via Dreamstime free<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So your book is done, it&#8217;s published, people are reading it, most of them are liking it (hopefully). 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