46b.jpg, 600x2667, 1 times posted
>>134222942>plot driving the characters vs characters driving the plotWhether the (main) characters are merely reacting to events or setting them into motion.
>examples please?Harry Potter is constantly gawking at macguffins in the films and shows zero desire to actually take control of his life. You likely never noticed this.
Can't think of a purely character driven piece outside of plays, which most people don't go to see so I can't reference one.
>And why one might be better than the other, when you would use it ect?You can't. It's a descriptor of a finished work.
And said descriptor is useless when you change the medium, e.g. play, book, comic, film, game.
My best advice is read more, watch more, find what you like and emulate it until you start to understand what, to you, is good and what is bad. There are no hard and fast rules. The most important concern is writing something good enough that your audience are more concerned with living the story than dissecting it (e.g. if you used Chekov's gun, no-one should be saying you used Chekov's gun, they should be saying "Wow I loved it when character did the thing").
