This month’s topic is: Your characters come from your mind, sometimes
interpretations of
other people you've witnessed or met, but can you create character lives without revealing something about yourself? Have your characters ever taught you something?
This one had me thinking. In Don’t Go I wrote in
character based on some I didn’t like and some of the things they did. It was
very cathartic. I guess in some ways it revealed something of myself an how I
handled situations – in writing not real life. In Hunted at he beginning I put
myself in the heroine’s position to get the feeling of how she’d react, so
again I guess that reveals something of myself and how I would react in similar
situations. other people you've witnessed or met, but can you create character lives without revealing something about yourself? Have your characters ever taught you something?
Because we are writers and have to make our characters
come alive for our readers I think some of the feelings, emotions and reactions
have to so come from us. So yes, I think my books do reveal something about
myself.
Have my characters ever taught me something? This one’s a
little trickier. Do my books teach me anything? Absolutely. Every book I write
I research so I’m always learning something. In my Hawkins Ranch series, I
learned a lot about ranching and the Blackfoot nation. From my characters,
maybe. In Hunted, I wrote the story but maybe I learned you can’t do everything
alone and sometimes other people do have good input. In Targeted, again it’s
what I wrote, but sometimes we don’t always want what we think we want.Skye Taylor http://www.skye-writer.com/blogging_by_the_sea
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I LOVE the research part of the book and we do learn so much as we strive to make our characters come alive. Good post.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Skye. I agree we learn so much from our research.
DeleteWriting is such a wonderful occupation, isn't it? We get to learn so much by doing research, and we even get to live in someone's else shoes for a while, even if my heroines always have something of me. I don't think I could relate to someone drastically different from me.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Marie. Writing is a wonderful occupation, if not a challenging one. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteI've also learned amazing things from the research I do for stories.
ReplyDeleteEmotions are universal human traits, and while we all react differently, I think enough similarity remains for everyone to understand feelings and reaction authors develop in their characters, even when based on their own responses.
I think that's an excellent point. There is a universality of similar emotions, but we react differently based on our own history.
DeleteBeverley, this is a bit of a different take from my interpretation of the topic. You explained how you learn from being a writer. I saw my characters as being my teachers.
ReplyDeleteBoth are true, right?
Different people will always have a different interpretation based on their own individuality and I agree - both our interpretations are right. And we're both learning.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about a person I didn't like once, and then we were thrown together in a big project at work. As I got to know him, the character I was writing about became more and more sympathetic. Strange things happen when we write. I think that it can be hard to pinpoint, but that in some way our characters do teach us something. Of course that means we're actually teaching ourselves as we write.
ReplyDeleteGood point - that we're actually teaching ourselves as we write. I like that.
DeleteI learn a lot when writing books because, generally, my muse likes exotic places which require research. (If only I had the budget to visit them. LOL) Sometimes, I learn something from my characters, even if it's a struggle to get it on the page and how to overcome that. :)
ReplyDeleteMarci
I agree, we always learn when we research and sometimes from characters, but that's harder.
DeleteBeverly,
ReplyDeleteI found you statement on the 'universal emotions. an excellent point.
Thanks Connie, and thanks for dropping by.
DeleteI have also felt a scene was cathartic...both in books I've read, and in books I've written. It's really wonderful for me, when writing a scene helps me to deal with some issue in my own life. I can only hope that it helps others as well.
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool that you can work out your own issues with your writing.
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