My name is Jacob Dammons, I'm writing this blog post to discuss who I am and where I come from. I'm from Detroit, Michigan. Child of a single mother. One older sister. Grew up in a house of women, lack of a father figure in my life. I was fairly isolated in the dark and didn't know myself very well.
In 2013, Steven Universe came out and through that show I was able to discover who I was. I figured out I was gay that year and later found out I was actually bi. I got in touch with my emotions and feelings and that's always what I come back to with my writing.
And on the topic of my writing, I want to get right into how I develop my characters and writing. My core writing philosophy.
I break characters into two axes of behavior.
Those two axes I find are goals and interests/kinks.
A goal is what pushes and drives a person, a character each and every day. Where they want to go in life. What pushes them and keeps them moving forward.
An interest, a kink is something that a person, or a character likes and enjoys so much that it defines the path that a character takes to get to that goal. What they plan on doing with the goal once they have achieved it. That, for a character, is always on their mind even when the scene doesn't include their interest. That they will be drawn to whenever it enters the scene.
For example, I'm going to get into my own.
I'm a writer, so breaking into writing for adult animation is my goal. As for my interests and kinks- I'm autistic so I've always had issues with food, but the food I love is euphoric. I have a big interest in sex, sexuality, expression of emotions. So character and relationship driven stories, such as Tuca and Bertie, Bob's Burgers, Steven Universe, etc- I find to be incredibly fascinating.
Those kinks, those interests led me to approach my goal through writing a SPEC for Bob's Burgers for the Nick Writing Program, a show where food and sexuality and relationships are baked into the characters and comes naturally to me.
It permeates through my own original ideas, which I will be posting here eventually.
And that I plan to give to the characters that I write. That is my core writing philosophy for building up characters and stories, walking them through worlds in their own natural way. Be whoever they are and decide what they want. What interests them and sets them on their path to their goals, how that comes into conflict with other characters and their goals and interests.
I want to make stories and characters come alive through these axes of behavior.
In 2013, Steven Universe came out and through that show I was able to discover who I was. I figured out I was gay that year and later found out I was actually bi. I got in touch with my emotions and feelings and that's always what I come back to with my writing.
And on the topic of my writing, I want to get right into how I develop my characters and writing. My core writing philosophy.
I break characters into two axes of behavior.
Those two axes I find are goals and interests/kinks.
A goal is what pushes and drives a person, a character each and every day. Where they want to go in life. What pushes them and keeps them moving forward.
An interest, a kink is something that a person, or a character likes and enjoys so much that it defines the path that a character takes to get to that goal. What they plan on doing with the goal once they have achieved it. That, for a character, is always on their mind even when the scene doesn't include their interest. That they will be drawn to whenever it enters the scene.
For example, I'm going to get into my own.
I'm a writer, so breaking into writing for adult animation is my goal. As for my interests and kinks- I'm autistic so I've always had issues with food, but the food I love is euphoric. I have a big interest in sex, sexuality, expression of emotions. So character and relationship driven stories, such as Tuca and Bertie, Bob's Burgers, Steven Universe, etc- I find to be incredibly fascinating.
Those kinks, those interests led me to approach my goal through writing a SPEC for Bob's Burgers for the Nick Writing Program, a show where food and sexuality and relationships are baked into the characters and comes naturally to me.
It permeates through my own original ideas, which I will be posting here eventually.
And that I plan to give to the characters that I write. That is my core writing philosophy for building up characters and stories, walking them through worlds in their own natural way. Be whoever they are and decide what they want. What interests them and sets them on their path to their goals, how that comes into conflict with other characters and their goals and interests.
I want to make stories and characters come alive through these axes of behavior.
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