Current Work in Progress Is Fun
Currently I am working on the third book in the series 'Deadly', DEADLY DELIVERANCE, and I tuly love this part. Almost as much as I love the edits and revisions that come back from my editor.
My characters have come to live with strong personalities and great conflict and neither the hero nor the heroine know exactly what to do about it. I really like them the way they are so will continue to let them be in the driver's seat.
There is so much the character can do, if you make sure each one has a goal, motivation and conflict. Just outlining your characters for plotting is fun since you can make them be anything you want, i.e. short & fat, tall and thin, color of hair and eyes, the antagonist or protganist and last of all you get to choose their names. Once this process is finished you start to put your characters to work.
Sometimes, or I should say most times, the characters take over and begin to have a personality all their own, i.e. they have a drinking problem, etc. Never intended and never in the outline but in the building of the character's peronality some things rear there ugly heads and that's when the writer needs to take control and rein them back into the character they want them to be. One redeemable, likeable by everyone or the antaganist; one liked by no one and better known as the bad guy.
Which will it be? Only time will tell.
My characters have come to live with strong personalities and great conflict and neither the hero nor the heroine know exactly what to do about it. I really like them the way they are so will continue to let them be in the driver's seat.
There is so much the character can do, if you make sure each one has a goal, motivation and conflict. Just outlining your characters for plotting is fun since you can make them be anything you want, i.e. short & fat, tall and thin, color of hair and eyes, the antagonist or protganist and last of all you get to choose their names. Once this process is finished you start to put your characters to work.
Sometimes, or I should say most times, the characters take over and begin to have a personality all their own, i.e. they have a drinking problem, etc. Never intended and never in the outline but in the building of the character's peronality some things rear there ugly heads and that's when the writer needs to take control and rein them back into the character they want them to be. One redeemable, likeable by everyone or the antaganist; one liked by no one and better known as the bad guy.
Which will it be? Only time will tell.
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