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Character Construct, the Writer Beneath and Linear Fractals

Frustration. That is a word I see being used more and more today by audiences, whether they are reading a book, watching a movie or binging on a web and/or tv series. They are frustrated--with the story, the characters, the writing style, the special effects--you name it, they have a frustration about it. Funny thing is, growing up as a kid, a teenager and then as a young adult, I found very little frustrations in stories myself. Even as a budding writer, I had few issues with whatever entertainment caught my interest. So what's changed? Is it us? Is it them? Is it all of the above? I don't know. I've previously talked about the changes I have seen in storytelling on my  tunblr  and how the  Dorothy Implicit Characterization  has been affected by it. But now, sitting here as I've done more writing in the last year than I have since my childhood, I'm wondering about the responsibility of the writer in making sure our character's construct is clear a...