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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ~Mark Twain
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." ~Henry Ford
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." ~Oscar Wilde |
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In most cases, humans are tied time. We start at the beginning when we're born, and we take a trip through time until the end whenever it might find us.
The cool thing is that fantasy and science fiction are not tied to time in the same way. As authors, we get to play. The hard part about this is how the characters change despite the time spent.
Vampires and other fantastic creatures learn, so while they are stuck in physical age, their minds might learn more. Though whether or not they might retain centuries of knowledge is another question.
Time travel takes some through to different spots on a timeline, so a bunch of years could be lived out of order.
Even travel at light speed (or near it) will create different lives for character s.
But the hard part is - how do you know what age that character becomes? Authors send children on quests, oldsters on missions, and everyone who crosses paths with heroes is changed.
I haven't learned yet what a specific age is supposed to look like, feel like, or act like. I can tell that someone is near my physical age, plus or minus five years. I can tell if someone at the park is a mother or a grandmother or a nanny, but not always. Children are likely to be a specific age by a combination of size and ability.
And it seems like the more time we spend on our journeys, the younger all the newer ones seem.
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Eye opening! I love the perspective.
Thank you!
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I like this newsletter on the education of characters. I do think it important the reader knows where the character receives/d certain aspects of their education. Sometimes it can be taken for granted but other times not. Take the movie (sorry not book) "Leon: the Professional" - story of a hitman who takes in a teenage girl. Both are on a learning curve. You can take for granted what Leon knows, the movie starts out with him doing a job. But like a book, the film has to take the watcher/reader on a journey of what the girl knows, wants, and learns. Also what Leon learns during the film. Books are like that. You want to take the reader on a journey of what your characters learn.
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