Casting fiction
When I read or write fiction, I always "see" the action in a vivid cinematic fashion, like a movie in my head; I thought everyone did that, but I have been informed that this is not the case. Huh. So am I the weird one, or the people who don't have movies in their heads when they read/write?
Anyway, for me, one of the most fun parts of prepping for NaNoWriMo or any fiction writing is the casting of actors as the characters. It must be frustrating for published writers who use this method to have completely wrong actors cast in film/TV adaptations of their work. (Please oh please let me have a chance to find out someday for myself.)
I've cast my two main characters and their parents* and siblings (and will start casting other characters tonight), my Contact Binary playlist is all fired up and ready to go in iTunes, and I'm trying to be more excited than terrified about attempting original fiction rather than fanfic this NaNoWriMo.
IS IT NOVEMBER YET? I WANT TO GET MY SPACE OPERA ON.
*Just so you know, Indira Varma and Thomas Kretschmann would have attractive offspring. Also crazy smart, although the genetic engineering had something to do with that - both the crazy and the smart. And what do you think you'd get from Claudia Black and Damian Lewis? Luckily for them, they had access to more advanced genetic engineering, so their offspring mostly escaped the crazy, although I suspect their daughter will take little comfort in that when a certain semimad scientist starts driving her around the bend.
(This entry was originally posted at my dreamwidth.)
Anyway, for me, one of the most fun parts of prepping for NaNoWriMo or any fiction writing is the casting of actors as the characters. It must be frustrating for published writers who use this method to have completely wrong actors cast in film/TV adaptations of their work. (Please oh please let me have a chance to find out someday for myself.)
I've cast my two main characters and their parents* and siblings (and will start casting other characters tonight), my Contact Binary playlist is all fired up and ready to go in iTunes, and I'm trying to be more excited than terrified about attempting original fiction rather than fanfic this NaNoWriMo.
IS IT NOVEMBER YET? I WANT TO GET MY SPACE OPERA ON.
*Just so you know, Indira Varma and Thomas Kretschmann would have attractive offspring. Also crazy smart, although the genetic engineering had something to do with that - both the crazy and the smart. And what do you think you'd get from Claudia Black and Damian Lewis? Luckily for them, they had access to more advanced genetic engineering, so their offspring mostly escaped the crazy, although I suspect their daughter will take little comfort in that when a certain semimad scientist starts driving her around the bend.
(This entry was originally posted at my dreamwidth.)