- this beautiful thief:
- Young children. I just can't write them realistically at all. The mindset is really hard to get into.
I feel you pain. But I'm pretty good at it.
If you think about it, children are learning and since they're learning they'll either have many questions running through their mind or ask a lot of questions (the ones who are smart) or they're very strong on their childish beliefs (usually the not as smart, arrogant or head strong ones) or a mixture of both. When thinking about some of the things they'd probably believe to be true, just think of the foolish things you thought were true when you were younger.
For instance, when I was younger I used to think that being drunk meant you drank too much, not just alcohol but drinking too much juice could classify as being drunk. And I consciously had that "if you step on a crack you'll break your mama's back" in the back of my head so I almost never stepped on a sidewalk crack. That habit has stuck with me now. I often find myself looking at the ground when I'm walking on a sidewalk seeing if I could walk the whole way without stepping on a crack.
Ignorant ghetto guy. That shit is so fucking hard, I don't even know what I got myself into. I'm writing one now in my story Dream Life but I'm slowly making him not as ignorant because it fits the plot and I can't get with that anymore. Ask me three years ago and I could do it no problem, but now that my mindset has matured, it's hard.