How Violence or Trauma Effects Your Characters
In so many adventure novels and screenplays, the hero has a lifetime of violent confrontations and trauma. Yet, he or she seems fairly normal, filled with energy and vigor. Reference, if you will the James Bond movies of, in alphabetical order ~ George Baker Pierce Brosnan Christopher Cazenove Sean Connery Timothy Dalton Bob Holness Michael Jayston George Lazenby Roger Moore Barry Nelson David Niven Toby Stephens Until the most recent movies of Daniel Craig, Bond is always on top of things, flip, and a healthy, horny womanizer who sleeps soundly and well ~ despite several lifetimes of lost loves and mind-boggling violence. It's a popular franchise, but believable? Not really. The common result of trauma in a person's life is Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS), and one of the primary symptoms of is sleeplessness, as experienced by one in every two American soldiers who have been deployed in...