Riley G.
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Roseanna M. White:
Hi, Ms. Roseanna! I've read your guestposts on GTW, and find them super helpful! I am working on writing a historical "romance" right now (It's a Jane Eyre type of story.) and I am having a bit of trouble finding a consistent voice for my heroine, also with fleshing out her flaws. (Her main flaw is lying) As a historical romance author, do you have any tips for finding the characters voices, and showing their flaws?
Roseanna M. White
My best advice is to identify the lens through which they view the world. What makes her HER? Does she love fashion? Math? Cooking? Stories (maybe, if she enjoys fabricating them for her lies, LOL)? That's going to be how she sees EVERYTHING. So Margot the mathematician saw everything in math terms...Willa the violinist as music...Libby the naturalist as their Latin names and as flora or fauna. So what is it your heroine is passionate about? That should color everything.
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Faith Marshall
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Roseanna M. White:
Since you're writing a WWII series, there was a group of women cryptographers that played a large role in the war, you like putting characters from one book in other novels, and at the end of A Portrait of Loyalty, Margot De Wilde was said to become a cryptography teacher... will she be in your upcoming series?
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