And have you found them recently?
I've been doing a lot of old style pulp writing recently, and
had a sudden thought about characters. So I wrote down several brief character
descriptions
Tell me if you recognize them, and if you thought I got them
correct?
• He was raised by loving parents who taught him right from
wrong; to respect others, and to help his neighbors, who ever they might be,
however he could. He has moved to the big city to do just that.
• Raised by a single father, he never knew his mother.
Reaching adulthood, he discovers his is heir to a distant and mysterious
kingdom. He will become king if he can bring the kingdom together, even though
they see him as an outsider; even as an enemy.
• Recruited for a special police force, his personality is
both greatest strength and greatest weakness.
• She was raised
and loved by her entire family, but when they are threated she must turn away
from them in order to save them.
• A police
scientist discovers something in his lab that allows him to fight crime in ways
no other cop can.
• Traumatized in childhood he struggles to prevent it from
happening to others.
• Two police officers are sent undercover to a distant city.
They must use their training to fight a new kind of criminal, while struggling
with their personal relationship.
• Kidnapped to a new land; he must act like one them to
survive while saving them from themselves.
Kevin Paul Shaw Broden
Four Names of Professional Creativity
