Thinking about characters today
1. I take a perverse pleasure in having characters who speak somehow other than plainly. Especially people with large vocabularies or courtly fancies. People who talk in riddles, or by some other design that is normal/human. But this morning, especially those people with vocabularies that mean I can actually use mine.
2. I really, really am apparently sold on characters whose reactions to fear or hurt is anger (regardless of whether it's lashing anger, or logical anger, or even tightly controlled dangerous anger). I notice it more as the situations happen to my characters. Where did that come from? Is it the fact that I'm never like that in person where it comes to fear and hurt?
If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.
-- "If You Were Coming in the Fall;" Emily Dickinson
2. I really, really am apparently sold on characters whose reactions to fear or hurt is anger (regardless of whether it's lashing anger, or logical anger, or even tightly controlled dangerous anger). I notice it more as the situations happen to my characters. Where did that come from? Is it the fact that I'm never like that in person where it comes to fear and hurt?
If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.
-- "If You Were Coming in the Fall;" Emily Dickinson