my best beloved theme of manlove. It's such a break from concerning myself with being a woman, and a boringly straight one at that. BWAH. <3333
But there again, as a character I want to be believable, I have to have sympathy for her as well. that is a difficult perspective. i've ended up with more characters i wouldn't let in my house if they were freezing to death than not, but OH NO look at that i'm writing their stories from their POVs anyway. *sigh*
Harrrr, I like that very much about your writing - your characters have a lot of grub going on (I'm looking at YOU, Kyung Lee) and yet I simply want MORE of them on the page, because they're frankly bloody amazing to watch.
While lots of things make me think, 'Ooh, I could use that in something', when it actually comes to the discipline of sitting down and putting words in order, I'm mostly inspired by my family - either the recent memories of my grandfather, who published two biographical books and always asked about my wordcount and ENDLESSLY asked what Blood Rising was about (I really couldn't bring myself to tell him, though I reckon he'd have been understanding if I had); my grandmother, who, when as a teenager I said I wanted to write a book, said, 'well for goodness sake get on with it and don't fanny about for twenty years like your cousin [insert name here]', which must be a family trait! - or by my own family: Bloke, who is happy for me to disappear off to write while he entertains/feeds the children on his days off, and the Boy, who finds the fact of my writing fascinating, and who now writes his own rather wonderful tales. Even Little R will come and see what I'm doing, and asks, 'did writing cheer you up while you were waiting for me to
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It's... essential. It's the same as being given advice for a life issue - listen to it all, and then use the bits which are useful! But more than that, I know I'm not the only person in these parts who finds it easier to believe something negative than something positive in someone's reading, but if you accept critique, you have to accept the good stuff too
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She gets up two hours before she's due at work, eats a breakfast of quinoa porridge and fruit and then jogs to the office, where she has a two-minute shower and gets changed for the day.
Every hour of daylight she is professional and hard-working, smiling at clients, encouraging colleagues and generally being a model employee/employer.
Then she jogs home again to a healthy tea of pasta, steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.
Or... at least, this is what she would say in her 'Life in the Day' interview, were she famous enough to be asked.
It's half true, but ENORMOUSLY boring, she thinks to herself on Saturday morning, enjoying her second bacon sandwich of the day and boiling the kettle for a good strong coffee.
It's not that she'd be embarrassed to tell the world about her actual hobbies, but she has sponsorship to think about, and the crazier element of the general public, so... so she logs on 'in-private' and catches up with what 'her' handsome men have been up to over the last seven days before arranging their next meet-up.
Oooh, I like her! I love that she has this 'secret life' that is, to her at least, way more interesting than her real life. And that some of her 'real life' is not true too. Fascinating study, my love. ;-)
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BWAH. <3333
But there again, as a character I want to be believable, I have to have sympathy for her as well. that is a difficult perspective. i've ended up with more characters i wouldn't let in my house if they were freezing to death than not, but OH NO look at that i'm writing their stories from their POVs anyway. *sigh*
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While lots of things make me think, 'Ooh, I could use that in something', when it actually comes to the discipline of sitting down and putting words in order, I'm mostly inspired by my family - either the recent memories of my grandfather, who published two biographical books and always asked about my wordcount and ENDLESSLY asked what Blood Rising was about (I really couldn't bring myself to tell him, though I reckon he'd have been understanding if I had); my grandmother, who, when as a teenager I said I wanted to write a book, said, 'well for goodness sake get on with it and don't fanny about for twenty years like your cousin [insert name here]', which must be a family trait! - or by my own family: Bloke, who is happy for me to disappear off to write while he entertains/feeds the children on his days off, and the Boy, who finds the fact of my writing fascinating, and who now writes his own rather wonderful tales. Even Little R will come and see what I'm doing, and asks, 'did writing cheer you up while you were waiting for me to ( ... )
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Every hour of daylight she is professional and hard-working, smiling at clients, encouraging colleagues and generally being a model employee/employer.
Then she jogs home again to a healthy tea of pasta, steamed vegetables and chicken or fish.
Or... at least, this is what she would say in her 'Life in the Day' interview, were she famous enough to be asked.
It's half true, but ENORMOUSLY boring, she thinks to herself on Saturday morning, enjoying her second bacon sandwich of the day and boiling the kettle for a good strong coffee.
It's not that she'd be embarrassed to tell the world about her actual hobbies, but she has sponsorship to think about, and the crazier element of the general public, so... so she logs on 'in-private' and catches up with what 'her' handsome men have been up to over the last seven days before arranging their next meet-up.
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A five-minute wonder, this one!
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