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mary rosenblum
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Hello all!
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mary rosenblum
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We finally got some rain. It
feels much more like Oregon here and less like Arizona now!
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions you
have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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mary rosenblum
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I wanted to talk about
characters tonight. The most important part of fiction and creative
nonfiction...
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mary rosenblum
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you can't learn too much about
characters and characterization.
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mary rosenblum
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So tonight is your chance to
ask anything even remotely related to characters and how to create REAL
characters.
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mary rosenblum
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Writing books toss that around
so blythely...but it's a complex process. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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So what questions do you have?
:-)
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onepozy
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Where do you get your ideas to
form your characters
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mary rosenblum
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Good question, one. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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And that one has many
answers...
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mary rosenblum
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Most writers, myself included,
create characters from a patchwork of attributes taken from real people.
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mary rosenblum
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We all watch people all the
time, noticing how they interact.
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mary rosenblum
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But as to that 'specific'
character, sometimes the character may 'spring to life'...
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mary rosenblum
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in your head before you have a
story, or you may more intentionally create a character...
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mary rosenblum
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who would fit in the plot or
story idea you came up with.
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mary rosenblum
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Say you have this great idea
for an undersea civilization and you need a main character to go find it...
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mary rosenblum
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you're going to need someone
who is around the ocean of course, and probably pretty adventuresome.
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mary rosenblum
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You might decide to make her
or him a marine biologist.
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mary rosenblum
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And then start giving that
person the backstory that makes him the right person for the story.
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tory
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Mine is a character POV
question. If POV's companion does something--say, clench fist--is it best
to say "Joe POV noticed Buddy clench his fist." Or just: Biddy
clenched his fist--since it is Joe seing it?
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mary rosenblum
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Youi can do it either way,
depending on the scene and what works.
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mary rosenblum
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If Joe's attention is directed
elsewhere, you may need to say 'Joe noticed Buddy's fist clench. He braced
himself...
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mary rosenblum
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But if Joe is looking at
Buddy, you can simply use Buddy clenched his fist and Joe braced himself.
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mary rosenblum
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That's Joe's awareness.
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mary rosenblum
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You have to visualize the
choreography of that scene.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions
you have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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lore alley
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What do you think about getting
characterization ideas from TV (as opposed to "real" people)?
Good tool or bad idea?
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mary rosenblum
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Bad idea. bad bad bad bad!
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mary rosenblum
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Real people are not of much
interest to the TV and hollywood industry..
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mary rosenblum
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nor are facts.
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mary rosenblum
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You tend to get cliches or
stereotypes for the most part. And you do not want to use the doctor or
lawyer or scientist on the TV...
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mary rosenblum
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as 'research'. TV gets facts
wrong ALL the time. Reality is simply not important.
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mary rosenblum
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ladybird reverse the
ask...type /ask and your question. :-)
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janecj333
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I've got another language
question...I'm working on nitty gritty detail in my revision...so, if in
the narrative of an sf novel I use miles and feet and hours, can the
characters, if they are aliens, also use those same terms?
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mary rosenblum
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They wouldn't jane. But you
should be able to make the comparison clear...
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mary rosenblum
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Unless your aliens have
learned English?
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mary rosenblum
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American English?
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mary rosenblum
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Otherwise, you might need to
set up an interchange that makes the relationship of 'ghats' to 'meters'
clear.
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silkybutterfly12
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How does TV get away with that
but when writing we can't
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mary rosenblum
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People are willing to put up
with it. Different audience. Ours is more discerning. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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No it's not fair!
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mary rosenblum
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But you know that life and
fair equation, don't you?
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geezer
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I'm surrounded by Hispanics, but
I can't seem to get into a Hispanic voice. Any suggestion?
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mary rosenblum
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If you are trying to capture a
'foreign' idiom, it is a very good idea to have an informant of that
persuasion tell you how that person would REALLY say that sentence. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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That will give you the most
accuracy.
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mary rosenblum
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Otherwise, if you have a
friend, say, who grew up in Mexico, and speaks less than perfect English...
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mary rosenblum
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imagine that person speaking
your dialogue.
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janecj333
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I hate to bring attention to
such terms...we are using English, after all, for every word uttered by
aliens to each other.
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mary rosenblum
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That's the hard part, Jane. You
have to use English, but you're more likely to jar the reader if you have
them use 'feet'...
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mary rosenblum
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than if you have them use
'ghats' and measure off a piece of string about a foot long.
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mary rosenblum
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That's one of the tricky parts
of doing other languages in English.
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silkybutterfly12
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I have an alien for a MC I have
her in my head and a
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silkybutterfly12
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but haveing trouble makeing her
seem real on paper(help
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mary rosenblum
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aliens are HARD silky.
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mary rosenblum
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If they are genuinely alien
they're not very comprehensible yes?
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mary rosenblum
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That's why so many SF aliens
are very human in behavior. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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And why I don't have aliens
walking around in my SF. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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(I think I have used two alien
sentients in all of my SF career.)
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions
you have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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ladybird39pm
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do you need to ask permissiond
to recreat another story from
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ladybird39pm
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may I extend on 3 bears with out
permissin
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mary rosenblum
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Sorry, I meant to put those
questions together a bit more coherently and I clicked on the wrong icon.
:-)
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mary rosenblum
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I understand your
question...can you use the Three Bears in a story.
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mary rosenblum
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Yes.
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mary rosenblum
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Any 'copy right' has long ago
expired on those old fairy tales and they are in the public domain.
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ladybird39pm
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Is it ok to make animals come
alive in kids stories?
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mary rosenblum
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Well, animals ARE alive...but
you can make stuffed animals come alive and make animals act very much like
humans.
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mary rosenblum
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Those are both used pretty
commonly in childrens stories.
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forest elf
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They must be very hard. I've
read a few sci fi (published) and sometimes found the other worlds and
aliens not convincing.
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mary rosenblum
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It's very difficult, forest.
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sss1208
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I want to write a fiction based
on real event.can i use the real name of the ship that was named for a real
person 45 years ago?
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mary rosenblum
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Sure, sss. There is nothing
illegal about using the names of real people in fiction as long as you
don't libel them.
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mary rosenblum
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I personally don't do it,
although if I was writing an historical novel I certainly would :-)
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forest elf
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Like Raggedy Ann?
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mary rosenblum
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Yes, there's a 'stuffed toy
come to life' story. And the Velveteen Rabbit, a classic.
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beryl
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My novel's MC starts with seeing
her husband shot and then waking up in the hospital, telling her two
children their Dad's died, etc and I want the readers to know more than the
widow side of her. I've done a flashback scene but what else can I do?
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mary rosenblum
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Well, surely she's going to
hav to deal with everyday events.
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mary rosenblum
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You can give us glimpses of
her personality even though she's dealing with recent tragedy.
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mary rosenblum
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We'll learn a lot about her as
she puts her grief aside briefly to help a kid in the park...
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mary rosenblum
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who is getting harassed, or
does something else that reveals her real personality.
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beryl
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I have her interacting a lot
with a childhood on up best friend, with their past times showing through.
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mary rosenblum
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That's good.
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mary rosenblum
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And most people will have ups
and downs, dealing with grief. She's certainly going to find things that
remind her of her past.
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beryl
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That's good...I can see her
doing that (with the kid )
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mary rosenblum
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You can give her all kinds of
distractions that will allow her to be herself and reveal her as someone...
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mary rosenblum
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who can put her own pain aside
to help others. We'll like her for that.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions
you have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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forest elf
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It is amazing how characters
evolve. I saw a homeless man last year that caught my eye. He looked happy,
peaceful, and was handsome. It was the oddest thing. He was the beginning
of my idea for the male MC for my last years NaNo.
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mary rosenblum
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Oh yes...
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mary rosenblum
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I've had many moments where a
brief glimpse of someone, a picture, even a voice in a radio interview, has
sparked a character for me.
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mary rosenblum
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Some of those characters have
to wait until I have the right story for them, though.
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janecj333
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I figure aliens will be about as
like us as worms...no common vocal organs or sensibility.
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mary rosenblum
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I agree, jane. I have always
felt that if they are 'alien' we're not going to understand them.
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mary rosenblum
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Neither of my two aliens is
awfully comprehensible or very primate-like for that matter.
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sss1208
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would children's stories be
successful in today's market based on stories from events 50 years ago.
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sss1208
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again, my mother and three
others made up a fiction play 50 years ago, I was wondering if I should
modernize the story or tell it like it was 50 years ago
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mary rosenblum
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Oh, yes, sss, stories set in
the past are VERY popular. Look at Little House on the Prairie!
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mary rosenblum
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However, you have to make the
universe of the past...that would be the 1950s...real to your young
readers.
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janecj333
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However, to write good adventure
sf, I make my aliens very human-like. It's a trade off.
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mary rosenblum
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well, that's space opera and
it's a big part of the genre. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Nothing wrong with good space
opera.
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dim writer
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Just bought a set of Little
house Books.
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mary rosenblum
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They're still big sellers.
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mary rosenblum
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We are fascinated by life in
the past.
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janecj333
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You have only two aliens?
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mary rosenblum
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I think so. I've written a LOT
of stories, but i can only recall two pieces where I actually have an
alien.
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tory
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I had that same language
challenge Jane speaks of in my novel. The US tourists and Albanian children
(who all study English in school) carry on somewhatstilted conversations.
But a reader said that when Albanian characters speak to each other--even
thought I'm using Eng. words, the speeck should flow, because really they'd
be speaking Albanian to each other. Confusing. Any thoughts?
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mary rosenblum
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Boy it's a challenge to have
people speaking in various languages to each other, when you're only using
English.
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mary rosenblum
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Your friend is right.
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mary rosenblum
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When those kids speak to each
other, their language should flow...
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mary rosenblum
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and that will tell the reader
that they are speaking Albanian.
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mary rosenblum
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Now POV is an issue here, too.
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mary rosenblum
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If you are in one of the
English speaker's POV, they won't understand what the kids are saying...
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mary rosenblum
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so about all you can do is...
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mary rosenblum
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The two boys spoke together
very rapidly, then turned with twin smiles...
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mary rosenblum
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"You come now? Eat
dinner?" the smaller one asked.
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mary rosenblum
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But if you're in the POV of
one of the boys...
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mary rosenblum
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you can just do this.
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mary rosenblum
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"What if we aske them to
come home with us," Sheer said quickly in Albanian. "Do you think
they would help Mother?"
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mary rosenblum
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You just flat out tell the
reader it's Albanian.
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janecj333
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Salt the Albanian-only
conversations with common Albanian terms here and there?
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mary rosenblum
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Problematical.
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mary rosenblum
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If you actually have a
conversational knowlege of Albanian, then do it heavily for a bit...
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mary rosenblum
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and slack off.
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mary rosenblum
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If you can only stick in a few
words from a tour guide don't bother.
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mary rosenblum
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They'll stand out like rocks
in a stream.
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tory
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Yes, they catch a word or two
and extrapolate.
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mary rosenblum
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If you're in the English
speaker's POV, then they may chatter, but your English speaker is stuck
with guesses. :-)
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tory
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Sigh. More revisions.
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mary rosenblum
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Of course. That's the real
part of writing. :-)
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geezer
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I saw a man at the botanical
garden which became my romantic hero, a botanist. The whole staff was in an
uproar to discover his true ID :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Cool, geeze. :-)
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tory
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Do you think once the languages
are clearly established, that later in the book I can ease the flow of the
stilted conversations. One reader said he hates, HATES anything other than
standard English.
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mary rosenblum
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Some. You still need to make
it clear that they're not speaking fluent American idiom.
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mary rosenblum
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WAtch out for the idioms, like
'cool' and 'awesome' and try avoiding contractions.
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mary rosenblum
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That will give the language a
'different' sound without making it too stilted.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions you
have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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dim writer
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When you do revisions do you do
cut and Paste?
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mary rosenblum
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When needed. Or cut. Like
entire scenes and chapters. Or put in new scenes and chapters...
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mary rosenblum
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it just depends on what the
story needs.
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mary rosenblum
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I so most of the slash and
burn on the first revision..
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mary rosenblum
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and focus on characterization
on the second revision...
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mary rosenblum
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once I have my events set up
to my satisfaction.
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mary rosenblum
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It's a good idea to use one
revision to focus ONLY on your characters.
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mary rosenblum
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Don't let yourself get
distracted by language or plot problems.
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mary rosenblum
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Fix the plot problems first,
do the language tweaks after.
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mary rosenblum
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Just pay attention to your
characters.
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mary rosenblum
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Ask yourself all the way
through...is this what she would really think here?
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mary rosenblum
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How would he feel right now?
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mary rosenblum
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is this really what she'd say?
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charie'
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How do you make your characters
memorable (larger than life) and still keep them real?
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mary rosenblum
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It's kind of a process of
turning a bright light on them.
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mary rosenblum
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You give the readers clues
that let them know more about your characters than they...
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mary rosenblum
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might learn about some
stranger...
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mary rosenblum
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But you can deftly focus
reader attention on the character's body language or reveal that occasional
thought...
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mary rosenblum
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so that we see that person's
reactions, feelings, and thoughts clearly enough...
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mary rosenblum
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that we have the insight of
old friends even though we've only known this character for a few hours.
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mary rosenblum
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That's what creating real
characters is all about, really.
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mary rosenblum
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Turning a stranger into an old
friend in a couple hundred pages.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions
you have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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charie'
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Is that why character quirks or
flaws are so important?
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mary rosenblum
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Sure.
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mary rosenblum
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That flawless perfect model of
the Good Wife, the Timid Child, the Stern Boss...
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mary rosenblum
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are like plastic dolls.
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mary rosenblum
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their hair is painted on,
their clothes are part of their molded bodies. They're fake.
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mary rosenblum
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But if you give them real
hair, zits, bad temper once in awhile, a stubborn streak...
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mary rosenblum
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they're much more like Uncle
Joe who is not plastic at all.
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dim writer
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Do we make old friends into Pov?
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mary rosenblum
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Well, your POV character is
the one you really want to develop to the point that the reader feels very
intimate with that person...
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mary rosenblum
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as long as your POV is your
main character.
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mary rosenblum
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Usually that's true, but not
always.
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mary rosenblum
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What you do, to make that
character real, is to give the reader clues...
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mary rosenblum
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so that reader can figure out
what your character is really like.
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mary rosenblum
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when you TELL the reader Joe
is a nice guy, he likes dogs, and is really good about taking care of his
elderly mother,...
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mary rosenblum
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we don't really take your word
for it.
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mary rosenblum
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We believe best what we figure
out for ourselves.
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mary rosenblum
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That's the key.
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mary rosenblum
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Let the character do things
that let the reader evaluate his/her personality.
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mary rosenblum
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If your character, for
example, is having a bad day and stomping home after snapping at the clerk
in the convenience store...
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mary rosenblum
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where he just bought his
sixpack of beer...readers are thinking, huh, not too great a guy...
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mary rosenblum
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They're starting to write him
off as kind of a jerk.
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mary rosenblum
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And then, as he crosses the
park, where the kids are playing ball, he notices the really runty kid who
has been left out of the...
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mary rosenblum
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pickup game, and he puts the
sixpack down, grabs up the ball as one of the older kids loses it...
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mary rosenblum
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slam dunks it, grabs the
rebound, and passes it right to the runty kid...
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mary rosenblum
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readers will get the
impression that even if he's acting kind of rough around the edges...
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mary rosenblum
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he might actually have some
compassion and might be more complex than he seems.
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mary rosenblum
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So they add that clue...okay
he's gruff and not very polite..
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mary rosenblum
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but he sized up the playground
situation and helped that loner kid out.
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mary rosenblum
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You keep offering clues like
that and you let the readers build that three dimensional character in
their minds.
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dim writer
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So you can't make a mc bad to
the bone?
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mary rosenblum
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Oh you can make a very evil
character, dim. That particular character would probably be my protagonist.
:-)
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mary rosenblum
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I'm not a fan of Extremely
Nice people in my fiction. :-) They mostly tend to be a bit on the warty
side. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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But you can also make an evil
person who seems very nice and polite on the outside...
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mary rosenblum
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and slowly let the readers
realize that this person has a really ugly other side.
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forest elf
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Even Frankenstein's monster and
King Kong had soft spots, didnt' they?
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mary rosenblum
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Oh yes.
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mary rosenblum
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And realistically, most 'bad
guys' don't think of themselves as bad guys.
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mary rosenblum
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I think the most chilling 'bad
guy' you can have is someone who utterly lacks compassion.
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mary rosenblum
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Causing harm to another person
simply doesn't feel wrong.
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forest elf
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Of course not. It is probably
someone else's fault they are forced to do bad things ... in their point of
view.
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mary rosenblum
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Sure.
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mary rosenblum
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Of they don't think of the
person they harmed as a person.
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mary rosenblum
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So they robbed that store.
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mary rosenblum
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One of the novelettes that is
a prequel to my Drylands novel and is part of the collection coming out in
January...
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mary rosenblum
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is hardly a 'good person' in
that novelette. He's a thief.
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mary rosenblum
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He ends up being a major
protagonist in the novel.
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charie'
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A hero can do bad things for a
good reason
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mary rosenblum
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Ah, he starts out doing things
for bad reasons. But you get to see him evolve.
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forest elf
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Like Robin Hood?
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mary rosenblum
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Yeah, that's a character type
that shows up pretty regularly in fiction. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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We like it a lot.
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builder guy
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What if the vilan is a real life
relative tweeked to fiction
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mary rosenblum
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Weeeellll, ask yourself what
will happen if that relative recognizes himself/herself, builder. If the
answer involves hospitalization, maybe rethink?
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mary rosenblum
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A lot of creative nonfiction
writers put family members in their stuff all the time. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I have often thought I'm glad
I'm not related to one or two of 'em. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Some time ago, a big name
writer put a former girlfriend...who was an editor...into a story in a very
nasty way.
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mary rosenblum
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And of course, everybody in
the business knew who it was. And why.
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mary rosenblum
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And it was an ugly thing to
do.
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mary rosenblum
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That writer lost a lot of
respect...mine included.
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forest elf
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I don't use my family's
personalities in my stories. But I have used their names. My MC's best
friends are twin girls. I used my niece's names for them. Alyssa &
Amanda.
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mary rosenblum
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You can certainly do that, and
it's kind of a sweet thing to do if the girls think it's cool. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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A lot of these inside jokes
lurk in published fiction.
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mary rosenblum
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And those in the know laugh.
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mary rosenblum
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Very rarely does the ugly side
of this game show up.
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mary rosenblum
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A writer friend of mine has
featured a couple of my dogs as characters in his fiction. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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But it can be distressful for
someone to see a portrayal of himself/herself up on a public stage.
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mary rosenblum
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I don't recommend using real
people as characters.
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mary rosenblum
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One real issue is that you
know that person and you know he/she would or would not do this...
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mary rosenblum
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and your character can be
tough to work with as part of your story.
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mary rosenblum
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Myself, I prefer to create my
character after I have my story idea figured out.
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mary rosenblum
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That way, I can create a
character who will suit my plot.
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mary rosenblum
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Rather than come up with a
character and then have to find a plot that will fit the character.
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mary rosenblum
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Although I certainly do it
both ways.
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mary rosenblum
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That's an issue with series
books, by the way.
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mary rosenblum
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You have an established
character, so you have to find plots that fit your character.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor We're talking about characters
tonight. I've published seven novels (number eight will be out in November)
, more than 60 short stories, and will do my best to answer any questions
you have. If you're new here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a
Question' button or the 'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the
top of the screen in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send' bar won't
reach me! Or you can use /ask and type your question into the regular send
bar if that works better for you
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mary rosenblum
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You know, I have a very good
character exercise for you.
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mary rosenblum
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Write yourself a nice action
scene or an intense dialogue between characters...
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mary rosenblum
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and then reverse the gender.
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mary rosenblum
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I use that in writers
workshops a lot.
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mary rosenblum
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It's a great way to focus
yourself on the 'world view' of your character.
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mary rosenblum
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Because big surprise, your
male and female characters are not going to think the same way.
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mary rosenblum
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Or use the same references or
notice the same things.
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builder guy
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Family plot's are plentiful,
when does it become redundant?
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mary rosenblum
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Well, redundant means
repetitive, so if they're all different, keep at it, builder. :-)
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janecj333
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It's funny you mention that. I'm
rewriting a scene in another pov, and the gestures and comments have to be
changed so dramatically.
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mary rosenblum
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That's good, Jane. They should
be different
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mary rosenblum
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Another good character
exercise.
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mary rosenblum
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So the same thing...write an
action scene or an intense conversation...
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mary rosenblum
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and then do the same scene
from the other character's POV.
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mary rosenblum
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That's particularly useful if
you do an action scene...
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mary rosenblum
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becuase of course, your other
POV will see different things...
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mary rosenblum
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he/she is not standing in the
same places as the first POV...
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mary rosenblum
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and it really makes the nature
of POV clear.
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sss1208
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what does POV stand for
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mary rosenblum
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Sorry. Point of View.
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mary rosenblum
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Thats' the character through
whose perspective you tell the story.
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mary rosenblum
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One thing to think about if
you have a story that seems to be stuck...
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mary rosenblum
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is whether or not you are
using the 'right' character.
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mary rosenblum
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Try telling the same story
through another character's POV.
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mary rosenblum
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You may find that this
character makes a better POV.
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janecj333
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I'm also reducing the number of
pov characters as there seem to be too many. I'm using what I consider
omniscient to replace some.
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mary rosenblum
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Jane, I wouldn't recommend
omniscient.
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mary rosenblum
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You may be succumbing to a
very common misperception...
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mary rosenblum
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that we NEED to know what that
character is thinking.
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mary rosenblum
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We need it far less than we
usually believe, when we're first writing fiction. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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There is almost nothing you
cannot reveal without going into that person's POV.
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mary rosenblum
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No, you won't be able to do so
as specifically...
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mary rosenblum
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your readers will have to
guess and it won't be exactly what you know that character is thinking...
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mary rosenblum
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but it'll be close and that
way you preserve your POV
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janecj333
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ok, maybe it's not
omniscient...it's more of a scene without any pov. Just actions, dialogue,
description of terrain.
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mary rosenblum
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Sounds more cinematic...
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mary rosenblum
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taht is visuals with nobody's
thoughts.
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mary rosenblum
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Omniscient is thoughts of all
the characters whenever needed...head hopping in other words.
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geezer
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I just read a book that had
patients in a mental hospital. The author head hopped. Each time there was
a jolt but it added to the wierdness of the scene
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mary rosenblum
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Well, it can.
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mary rosenblum
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I've read some extremely
omniscient stories that worked well. They tend to be plot driven.
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mary rosenblum
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BUT...that does not mean it
will work for YOUR story. :-) It's hard to pull of.
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mary rosenblum
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YOu have to have something so
powerful that the weak characterization is compensated for.
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janecj333
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In fact, my realization is that
the reader DOESN'T need to know what certain characters think, and is
really just an unnecessary distraction.
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mary rosenblum
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That's exactly right.
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mary rosenblum
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You can have that character
reveal just about anything you need the reader to know...
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mary rosenblum
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without knowing what that
character thinks.
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mary rosenblum
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Well this has been fun Oregon
hour.
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mary rosenblum
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I'd better get out and feed my
sheep before this biiiiig black cloud lets go.
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mary rosenblum
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I"ll post this in the
usual place:
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mary rosenblum
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Writing Craft: Forum
Transcript.
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janecj333
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If I write, "It was hot.
Damn hot. " and nobody's thinking it (in a scene with no pov) but
everybody knows it, is it cinematic or just standard narration?
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mary rosenblum
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Narrative.
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mary rosenblum
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If we are in one POV, then
we'll assume it's her/his thought.
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mary rosenblum
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If it's cinematic, it's your
voice.
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mary rosenblum
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Thanks for coming all, and
good night!
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