Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Mar 25 2010
They're such characters.
Now and then I create characters without regard to placing them into a particular story. It's fun to just imagine their looks, their habits and their basic personalities. When you think about it, this is often the way we encounter real people in our everyday lives. We wait in line with them, see them on a panel of speakers or notice them as they browse in a bookstore. Encountering fictional characters this same way gives me a chance to think about what their lives are like without attaching any preconceived significance to them as part of a particular fictional plot I've developed. And who knows? They just might become interesting enough to become the next protagonist or other character in my next story plot.
posted at: 16:17 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Now and then I create characters without regard to placing them into a particular story. It's fun to just imagine their looks, their habits and their basic personalities. When you think about it, this is often the way we encounter real people in our everyday lives. We wait in line with them, see them on a panel of speakers or notice them as they browse in a bookstore. Encountering fictional characters this same way gives me a chance to think about what their lives are like without attaching any preconceived significance to them as part of a particular fictional plot I've developed. And who knows? They just might become interesting enough to become the next protagonist or other character in my next story plot.
posted at: 16:17 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
