Comments on: surprise! http://giveagirlapen.com/uncategorized/surprise She'll write a book to go with it... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AmberInGlass http://giveagirlapen.com/uncategorized/surprise/comment-page-1#comment-912 AmberInGlass Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:15:03 +0000 http://giveagirlapen.com/?p=1327#comment-912 All the time. I'm not one to set down and make outlines either. Instead, I'll create some characters and get them pretty well developed in my head, as far as personality, behaviour, and all that. Then I give them a setting and I set off writing. Sometimes I have a vague idea as to what direction I want to take the story, but how the characters get there is always up to them. And yes, more often than not, it really surprises me how they do it. All the time. I’m not one to set down and make outlines either. Instead, I’ll create some characters and get them pretty well developed in my head, as far as personality, behaviour, and all that. Then I give them a setting and I set off writing. Sometimes I have a vague idea as to what direction I want to take the story, but how the characters get there is always up to them. And yes, more often than not, it really surprises me how they do it.

]]> By: Jamie http://giveagirlapen.com/uncategorized/surprise/comment-page-1#comment-908 Jamie Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:18:22 +0000 http://giveagirlapen.com/?p=1327#comment-908 YES! I was writing and this guy just appeared in the doorway... turns out he's my favorite character in my book and the sequel will be HIS story! YES!

I was writing and this guy just appeared in the doorway… turns out he’s my favorite character in my book and the sequel will be HIS story!

]]> By: suzanne http://giveagirlapen.com/uncategorized/surprise/comment-page-1#comment-907 suzanne Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:16:18 +0000 http://giveagirlapen.com/?p=1327#comment-907 I find sometimes I THINK they are doing things they want to... but then I realize I have been guiding it all along. (Kinda Like With Kiddles?) Those are the portions that come out in the rewrite. At least for me. Those are the square pegs in round holes, they just take longer to notice. The problem is staying subjective. I went to a class taught by a published novelist and he said that very same thing. Let your characters do what they want to do. And I was like "p'sha... I ALWAYS do!" and then an agent read my book and said "do try to let your characters do what they want to do..." and I was like: "WHAT?" So, sometimes we can convince ourselves that we are leaving them be when we really aren't! ;) I find sometimes I THINK they are doing things they want to… but then I realize I have been guiding it all along. (Kinda Like With Kiddles?)

Those are the portions that come out in the rewrite. At least for me. Those are the square pegs in round holes, they just take longer to notice. The problem is staying subjective. I went to a class taught by a published novelist and he said that very same thing. Let your characters do what they want to do. And I was like “p’sha… I ALWAYS do!” and then an agent read my book and said “do try to let your characters do what they want to do…” and I was like: “WHAT?”

So, sometimes we can convince ourselves that we are leaving them be when we really aren’t! ;)

]]> By: Sarah http://giveagirlapen.com/uncategorized/surprise/comment-page-1#comment-903 Sarah Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:04:09 +0000 http://giveagirlapen.com/?p=1327#comment-903 My characters totally have minds of their owns. They say and do things I'd never do in a million years. Strange, this world of fiction writing. :) My characters totally have minds of their owns. They say and do things I’d never do in a million years.

Strange, this world of fiction writing. :)

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