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owlmoose

30 Days of Writing: Characters, again

Jul 21, 2010 18:27

I'm starting to feel like a lot of these questions are about characters and characterization; I hope it's not getting too repetative.

Onward...

9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.As a fanfic writer, for the most part I'm not "creating" characters as such: the names exist, and so do the faces, and in ( Read more... )

fanfiction, 30 days of, writing

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auronlu July 22 2010, 02:21:20 UTC

I'm nodding my head a lot with your answers and saying, "We are the chorus and we agree, we agree, we agree, we agree" because you've said everything in such a coherent fashion ( ... )

owlmoose July 22 2010, 02:44:07 UTC

The plethora of minor characters is definitely helpful, and I've taken advantage of them, too. Sometimes I wish I had known about fandom's aversion to OCs before I wrote AGL and populated it with so many. On the other hand, then I might never have invented Kal, and I am not ashamed to admit that I love Kal. ;)