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12-09-2018, 05:44 PM | #1 | |||
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How do writers create characters?
And what's the process for making these characters? |
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12-09-2018, 05:57 PM | #2 | ||
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That's like asking "How does a person live their life?" the answer is different for everyone.
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12-09-2018, 05:59 PM | #3 | |||
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12-09-2018, 06:00 PM | #4 | ||
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I was using an example of something that is different for everyone. There is no one process to creating a character, just as there's no one way to live life. |
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12-09-2018, 06:03 PM | #5 | |||
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What's your process?
Last edited by Behind_You; 12-09-2018 at 06:03 PM. |
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12-09-2018, 06:15 PM | #6 | ||
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12-09-2018, 06:17 PM | #7 | |||
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12-09-2018, 06:20 PM | #8 | |||
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Hurry up Rob, don't leave us in suspense.
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12-09-2018, 06:21 PM | #9 | ||
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You can't rush art.
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12-09-2018, 06:35 PM | #10 | |||
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Dezzy > Rob
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13-09-2018, 08:21 AM | #11 | |||
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tbh Dezzy can explain this better than Rob i think
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13-09-2018, 12:40 PM | #12 | ||
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13-09-2018, 12:41 PM | #13 | |||
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13-09-2018, 12:43 PM | #14 | ||
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I usually just start off with a scene or a moment or some sort of important strand related to a character and build from there. With Black, the starting point for the main character and the story as a whole was the idea of a person selling his soul to the Devil for revenge and then I just built everything from that point. What would motivate him to do that? What was his life like up until that point? What would his personality be like having lived through his troubled past? It might not work for everyone but it works for me, start of with a strand of a plot, a moment, a scene and build from there. |
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13-09-2018, 01:46 PM | #15 | |||
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Thank you for sharing
Have you ever been stuck in a character role? |
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13-09-2018, 01:59 PM | #16 | |||
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Create a character and destroy a career in one thread
#freetheHarsmschapelone
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13-09-2018, 02:54 PM | #17 | ||
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Do you mean have I ever been stuck thinking of characters? Yeah, there's a character in my book called Lorelei who I pretty much changed dramatically in every draft of the book because I couldn't decide who I wanted her to be. |
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13-09-2018, 03:17 PM | #18 | ||
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13-09-2018, 05:12 PM | #19 | |||
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No stuck in a character role they take over your life and you become a totally different person
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13-09-2018, 05:15 PM | #20 | |||
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it’s a mad, mad world
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i once tried writing a book but i got a severe case of writer’s block which put me off, so i left it
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13-09-2018, 09:38 PM | #21 | ||
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I don't think that's ever happened to me tbh, writing certain scenes left their mark on me whilst I was working on the book but I managed to put it to rest once the book was done.
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13-09-2018, 09:40 PM | #22 | ||
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You've just got to force yourself to write, even if it's **** you can revisit it later. getting the foundations of a book down is like 80% of the work. It's easy to tune up the writing later.
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