I recently wrote a bit of a sort of love letter to a girl I sort of really admire. Obviously, the sentence structure in it was much nicer than the previous sentence. But I found the experience kinda cool, actually. You know, in a dorky, mushy, quasi-romantic way. Then I discovered she doesn’t have a letterbox – so much for that idea.
Anyway, after reading up on the TvTropes (there’s that site again!) definition of a Five Man Band, somehow I winded up on advanced characterization or something – terms with more depth than ‘Hero’, ‘Lancer’ (sidekick), ‘Big Guy’, ‘Smart Guy’ and ‘Girl’; terms like ‘Boistrous Bruiser’ and ‘Spirited Champion’ and even one for ‘Warrior Poet’ which I found cool (not a new concept for me, but one I haven’t so much as thought about in years).
So, to better flesh out the character I think I’d like to make evolve into a Warrior Poet, I thought I should start learning poetry. So I will. It’ll be nice to see what I come up with in the way of “poetry of the booze and bullets variety”.
