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U is for Understanding.
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I can’t believe we’re to U already. I’m going to miss all of your helpful tips. Well not really. I am subscribed!
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He-he. Thanks for stopping by, Jacqui 🙂
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I definitely love getting to know my characters. Even my villains surprise me. If you watched the movie “The Man who Invented Christmas,” my process is very similar. I talk with them, get to know them, follow them through events.
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Sounds great 🙂 I had an argument with one of my characters this morning — lots of fun! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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I haven’t written fiction (meaning actually completed the tale) in many years. Developing characters was the most fun. Once they were established, they wrote themselves.
The View from the Top of the Ladder
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Great post, Ronel! Can you arrange a lunch date for me and Sam Gamgee? Rosie can come, too, if she wants! 😉
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Thank you 🙂 I can try when I do my annual rereading of The Lord of the Rings 😉
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It is true about using people we meet for our characters. Having a full time job, especially where there are a lot of people, and diverse, gives me a lot of ideas and characters. If only I didn’t have a full time job that takes up a lot of my time! *chuckle*. Paradox of my life. 🙂
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He-he. Notebooks filled with characters… I’ve found that it’s all about time-management and routine to make the hours in a day work for you 😉 And still I have a closet full of notebooks, binders and papers with ideas.
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Time management and no “Montecasino-addiction”. Ha-ha!
I know that one day, I can use those journals, as much as you will be have published books with those ideas taken from those notebooks and napkins (he-he!) put together and mixed with new stuff. 🙂
I have this crime story developing in my head from some observations at work, involving me. I can’t wait to get over my want to gallivant so I can sit myself down and write. There is one problem, the character based on me cannot be the MC because I plan to kill her… unless… ah, I’m thinking of something. Luckily, it’s one idea that cannot escape me because I interact with the characters on a daily basis. Me thinks I’m no romance writer. 🙂
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You can always add a romance subplot 😉 Killing off characters is so much fun! As long as the ones the characters are based on stay oblivious to their own roles in the story…
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Yes! 😋 I guess if I can write well enough, they wouldn’t have a clue. 😂
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