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Die By the Pen: Empathy Part 2 or Food is the Way to a Character’s Heart

In Die By the Pen, Jared Gniewek discusses what feeds his fires as an author of comics, screenplays and radio dramas.

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In my last entry I started to divulge a few ideas I have in regards to furthering of your empathy. I believe fully that the trait of empathy is crucial to the act of writing. The work of authoring stories in whatever format we prefer (or are paid to write in) can hone the skills needed to be empathetic towards others and our characters but there are other tricks to entering the bodies and minds of others that will only make us all the stronger.

We can never really know each other. It is one of the curses of being human that we must live in a type of isolation, guessing and hoping that we have a strong enough sense of the workings of the other humans in our lives. We fly blind and lonely star ships tethered by fragile conduits to our families and friends. It is a theme I explore over and over again in my own work. It is worthy. Empathy is our attempt to bridge the gaps between us as creator and characters as subjects through which we express all the facets of our will.

So without further ado, here is empathy part 2!

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