30 DAys: Writing a Novel - Day 10

Somehow I have the feeling that every character I write is a stereotype. Basically you cannot make anything new. If a character should be believable it has to behave according to some known stereotype which on the other hand makes the character very uninteresting. It is a problem because every movie that I see before my inner eye and which I try to write down has actors that are like so many others seen on TV and in the movies. And the more you think about those characters the more you notice that they are bland stereotypes as well. So why write anything at all, or for that matter read any fiction? During the last few years I have read less and less fiction and more and more non fiction books. Maybe this development is related to the fact that I find most of the characters in fiction no longer have any appeal for me.

For the facts I am still about 3,6 days behind, but now is a weekend again and maybe I can catch up a little. Writing on the whole is getting a bit easier and I need less time to get my daily word count done.