How depth does the average person have?

by **Atlantean_Relic** » Fri 16 Nov 2007, 00:16:33

Visiting Fanfic boards on the Internet and one piece of advice that is frequently given to the new, the bad, and the ugly is they need to give each of their main characters a voice of their own and flesh them out, to be more than a one dimensional character. This got me thinking do these writers of the fanfiction know anybody well enough to know what a multidimensional person is like. It is hard to write what you don't know so the source of there problem beside obvious inexperience at writing would be there honest inexperience with anybody on a level beyond simple cardboard cutouts. Which also has me questioning how many people are just shallow, hollow shells with all the personality of a stock character in a play and as easily exchanged for any other with no real loss to the observer. So in the end I guess I'm asking is there any depth to anybody anymore if there ever was any to begin with?

by **Opies** » Fri 16 Nov 2007, 01:15:59

In the western world? just about everybody. It's extremely hard to find someone who is genuinely interesting. Not excluding myself from my own judgments of course. I try not to be, but I can only assume others see me as a brain-dead consumer too.