Friday, June 19, 2009

thought to share

I love it when characters take on characteristics and qualities that you would never have expected them to take.

I love it when they start to breathe and all you've left to do is try and keep up with them.
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4 comments:

  1. JWJune 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM

    My stupid characters have gotten far ahead of me. Can't even keep them under control anymore.

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  2. CaitJune 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    lol i know that feeling. Sometimes I feel like all I'm doing is playing catch up.

    Though I have one character - the antaognist actually - who won't speak and won't tell me anything, so I dunno what's going on with him. It's hard to write about him when he won't tell me anything about himself. I'm getting slightly frustrated.

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  3. Christian HJune 19, 2009 at 10:33 PM

    Make him you.


    Obviously you don't have to take that advice. I am in no position to dispense authoral wisdom, as though I'm some sort of expert. But sometimes I find the best way to make a character who is not the protagonist more real is to fill in the blanks with your own answers for the question.

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  4. CaitJune 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM

    hmmm...

    that could work.

    thanks Christian :)

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