Is Your Character Welcome?

Before I get to writing the main part of this blog, I want to take a little trip down memory lane. Remember back in the day in English class during high school and we all had to write a narrative story? How long did it take you come up with that character to be at the center of the story? I remember taking pretty much the whole time I had to write the paper just trying to create a character. I don't know about you but I would just think of myself being this ultimate hero in the most ridiculous situation possible. That's one way to do it, but its not the only way to think of a character. In my reading for my Into to Lit. class, it talked about how create a character. Most of us do what I mentioned previously, but what caught my attention was that we should discuss our characters with others. When I read that I immediately thought of how I treated my character creation. I would pretend to have like a maximum security prison, underground laboratory in which no one could gain access to but me. Looking back on that, it seems kind of childish and I guess you could say that I was afraid of someone plagiarizing me and taking my brilliant character. But discussing your character will allow your character to grow even more, before you can put him/her into the story.