Truth Behind Stories

when i was a kid, my father told me that one could tell the character of a person from the stories (fictional) he wrote. he said, if a story had a character which was weak at first and grew to be strong, it meant that the author was weak in real life (one way or another) and had dreamt to be strong. we were watching those kind of sword-fighting shows then.

Follow up:

at first i was skeptical. was that really so easy to tell? afterall, everything was fictional, right? that meant that a person could write anything he wanted so long as it fit the story. there is no basis for what he said.

and when i started writing stories of my own (all my stories are fictional), i realized that what he said, although there was no concrete basis for it, was really true to a huge extent. i realized that for every piece of story that i wrote, it contained either my past experiences, dreams, feelings...etc. every single piece of the story had a part of me. because it is related to me, that is why i can put my feelings into it, and write a good story (i self-proclaim that i write good stories).

because it is what i had hoped for, that i can understand the character and able to plan the story well. it is because it was what i had experienced, that i can make the character come to life. it is because it is what i feel, that i can make the feelings of the character 'real'.

(this blog post contains very lousy english. i am tired from doing one whole day of math. forgive my bad english this time.)

for those who want to try writing stories, try making the character like you. and then... put everything to the extreme and glorify it. with that, you are on your way to writing a good story.