{"id":281,"date":"2020-11-17T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T08:49:57","slug":"creating-sympathetic-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/creating-sympathetic-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Sympathetic Characters: Our Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guest author and blogger&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamkowalski.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">William Kowalski<\/a>&nbsp;shares his insights into creating sympathetic characters that resonate on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Sympathetic-Character-Development\">Sympathetic Character Development<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Language is a living, organic thing, and words have a habit of shifting meaning over time. This is precisely what has happened with the word sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like ouzo and democracy, sympathy comes to us from the Greeks. It\u2019s derived from pathos, meaning \u201cfeeling\u201d, and together with its prefix, which in English becomes \u201csym\u201d, it once meant to feel along with someone, or to join a community of feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have not completely lost this sense of it, but our understanding of sympathy has narrowed until it\u2019s come to mean feeling sorry for someone, or commiserating with them. As we writers develop our <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/character\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characters<\/a>, we would do well to spend some time pondering the original, deeper meaning of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Sympathetic-Vs-Unsympathetic-Characters\">Sympathetic Vs Unsympathetic Characters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are sympathetic <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/character-motivation-all-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characters <\/a>so important? Because unless your readers have some kind of emotional investment in their outcome, they won\u2019t care what happens to them. They will become antipathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a writing mentor, I must often explain that a sympathetic character isn\u2019t just one we feel sorry for. It\u2019s someone in whose struggle readers have become wrapped up, the more completely the better. We feel the same range of emotion he feels. We have joined her community of feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do this because we believe this <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/round-vs-flat-characters-a-complete-guide\/\">ch<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/round-vs-flat-characters-a-complete-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/round-vs-flat-characters-a-complete-guide\/\">racter<\/a> is a real, flesh-and-blood person, if the author has done his job properly. What happens to her happens to us. It\u2019s a skilled illusion, so how do we pull it off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The answer lies in the all-important practice of strong character development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Importance-Of-Making-Characters-Believable\">Importance Of Making Characters Believable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Poetics<\/em>, Aristotle tells us that characters must be \u201cgood\u201d (she must possess some redeeming quality); \u201cappropriate\u201d (her qualities must make sense, based on her identity); \u201cbelievable\u201d (we have to believe that such a person could exist); and \u201cconsistent\u201d (her character, while mutable, should also follow a pattern throughout the course of a story). I go into more detail on Aristotle\u2019s contributions to our storytelling culture in an article available for free on my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamkowalski.com\/articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, called \u201cWriting Secrets of the Ancient Greeks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But these are not the only considerations. If a character is to be sympathetic, he must be in pursuit of something. In his rules for writing, Kurt Vonnegut said, \u201cEvery character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the simpler<a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/character-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> your character\u2019s goal<\/a>, at least at the outset of the story, the better. As we watch him go off in pursuit of that thing, we will naturally sympathise with his struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these rules can confound us if we try to follow them to the letter as we write. The best practice for me has been to revisit them periodically, in order to remember the basics. In this way, they become implanted, and eventually become second nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that we don\u2019t have to like everything about a character. A flawed and imperfect nature makes him even more sympathetic, because we\u2019re not perfect, either. We have a much easier time relating to an empathetic character who screws up from time to time than to someone who always gets it right on the first try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest author and blogger&nbsp;William Kowalski&nbsp;shares his insights into creating sympathetic characters that resonate on the page. Sympathetic Character Development Language is a living, organic thing, and words have a habit of shifting meaning over time. This is precisely what has happened with the word sympathy. 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