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Behind_You 12-09-2018 05:44 PM

Character roles
 
How do writers create characters?
And what's the process for making these characters?

Marsh. 12-09-2018 05:57 PM

That's like asking "How does a person live their life?" the answer is different for everyone.

Behind_You 12-09-2018 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 10220911)
That's like asking "How does a person live their life?" the answer is different for everyone.

No it's not
Characters are most of the time made up by imagination but there must be a process

Marsh. 12-09-2018 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Behind_You (Post 10220917)
No it's not
Characters are most of the time made up by imagination but there must be a process

Yes, I'm quite aware. I wasn't suggesting they are real.

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.

Behind_You 12-09-2018 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 10220920)
Yes, I'm quite aware. I wasn't suggesting they are real.

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.

What's your process?

Marsh. 12-09-2018 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Behind_You (Post 10220933)
What's your process?

I don't create characters my love, but I've made my good friend Rob aware of the thread. He is an author. He'll come on and give us his process when he gets chance to. :love:

Behind_You 12-09-2018 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 10220967)
I don't create characters my love, but I've made my good friend Rob aware of the thread. He is an author. He'll come on and give us his process when he gets chance to. :love:

Okay thank you :)

Alf 12-09-2018 06:20 PM

Hurry up Rob, don't leave us in suspense.

Marsh. 12-09-2018 06:21 PM

You can't rush art. :nono:

RileyH 12-09-2018 06:35 PM

Dezzy > Rob :idc:

Nicky91 13-09-2018 08:21 AM

tbh Dezzy can explain this better than Rob i think

Tom4784 13-09-2018 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 10220967)
I don't create characters my love, but I've made my good friend Rob aware of the thread. He is an author. He'll come on and give us his process when he gets chance to. :love:

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Fetch The Bolt Cutters 13-09-2018 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Nicky91 (Post 10221834)
tbh Dezzy can explain this better than Rob i think

Jgfhj the shade

Tom4784 13-09-2018 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by RileyH (Post 10221025)
Dezzy > Rob :idc:

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Originally Posted by Nicky91 (Post 10221834)
tbh Dezzy can explain this better than Rob i think

:love:

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.

Behind_You 13-09-2018 01:46 PM

Thank you for sharing
Have you ever been stuck in a character role?

Crimson Dynamo 13-09-2018 01:59 PM

Create a character and destroy a career in one thread


:omgno:


#freetheHarsmschapelone

Tom4784 13-09-2018 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Behind_You (Post 10222082)
Thank you for sharing
Have you ever been stuck in a character role?

I don't understand the question.

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.

Marsh. 13-09-2018 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 10222048)

:joker::joker::joker:

Behind_You 13-09-2018 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 10222140)
I don't understand the question.

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.

No stuck in a character role they take over your life and you become a totally different person

Matthew. 13-09-2018 05:15 PM

i once tried writing a book but i got a severe case of writer’s block which put me off, so i left it

Tom4784 13-09-2018 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Behind_You (Post 10222400)
No stuck in a character role they take over your life and you become a totally different person

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.

Tom4784 13-09-2018 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Matthew. (Post 10222411)
i once tried writing a book but i got a severe case of writer’s block which put me off, so i left it

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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