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Nov 29, 2012 11:52AM
And aside the record shop, all the DJing in Time After Time... is that related based on experience?
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Denise wrote: "Sorry I'm late - new to all this (and am generally always late for everything) So, hello and - have I missed anything?"Hi denise! *waves*
Are all your characters fictional, or are they based on real people? Like, people you know, or people you have seen in the street, etc (:
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "And aside the record shop, all the DJing in Time After Time... is that related based on experience?"not really. I'm terribly unmusical really. Never DJ'd in my life - I'd be too cack handed and would drop the records!
Rosemary wrote: "Evening all, I'm here too, bit late, just been reading thru the posts"Hi Rosemary! *waving*
Marc wrote: "not really. I'm terribly unmusical really. Never DJ'd in..."
Been clubbing a lot then?
Katy wrote: "Are all your characters fictional, or are they based on real people? Like, people you know, or people you have seen in the street, etc (:"no they're not really based on people I know. I honestly believe all characters represent some part of the writer. In my case, usually the parts of me that don't get seen terribly often in the day to day. I learn about myself in writing characters that seem far removed from me, but aren't all that strange to me.
Katy wrote: "Are all your characters fictional, or are they based on real people? Like, people you know, or people you have seen in the street, etc (:"I also wouldn't feel comfortable putting real people from my life in my books. It would seem like an invasion of their privacy somehow. They wouldn't have a public right of reply if they disagreed with how I'd portrayed them
Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Marc wrote: "not really. I'm terribly unmusical really. Never DJ'd in..."
Been clubbing a lot then?"
Not really. Why pay over the odds for the privilege of having 50 songs of which I maybe would choose 3 to dance to? I prefer to throw shapes in my bedroom to my own playlists!
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)"who's Schwarzy?
Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?
What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? (:
Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)"who's Schwarzy?"
Arnold ! Sorry it's easier that way, I can't spell his name for the life of me !
Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"I do like the female main character Karen Dash from my debut novel. She's so tough and scabrously funny. But she'd terrify me in the flesh I think :-)
Marc wrote: "Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"I do like the female main character Karen Dash from my debut novel. She's so tough an..."
LOL! I think Karen would scare anyone!
Katy wrote: "What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? (:"It's weird, but every new piece you finish writing you think is the best thing ever, until the next one comes along. I can't really explain why I keep falling for this.
I think my favourite short story is one called "If It Were Thee" which dealt with a lot of ideas in just 900 words. I was very proud of that one.
Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"If I don't like a character, then I guess it means I don't like part of myself! I've written unpleasant characters, but they have to have some redeeming humanity about them, or the reader will despise them
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)"who's Schwarzy?"
Arnold ! Sorry it's easier that way, I can't spell his name for ..."
Doh! Got it! Am I a fan? Yes and no. He's brilliant doing the limited range of roles that he gets cast in. But he's probably a bit old for them now, plus being Governor of California soemwhat dented his cred in my eyes!
A quick drive by to shout 'break a pencil' before getting the kids to bed. Just chill and enjoy it. *It helps to imagine Lorraine in her underwear ... but then that's also a general rule.
Denise wrote: "Marc wrote: "Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"I do like the female main character Karen Dash from my debut novel. She'..."
she's interesting, because clearly she's smart and tough, yet she's really stuck and also very constrained by the world she moves in
If you could choose to be a character in anything you've written, which would it be?(:
What is it about writing that makes you most nervous or uneasy?
Darren wrote: "A quick drive by to shout 'break a pencil' before getting the kids to bed. Just chill and enjoy it. *It helps to imagine Lorraine in her underwear ... but then that's also a general rule."
I'm eating cold chips in the breaks. Not sure how that fits in with your recipe for success!
Marc wrote: "Doh! Got it! Am I a fan? Yes and no. He's brilliant doing the limited range of roles that he gets cast in. But he's probably a bit old for them now, plus being Governor of California soemwhat dented his cred in my eyes! "Yeah, I must admit the digitally enhanced him in the latest Terminator (or was that earliest?) was kinda weird !
Marc wrote: "Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"If I don't like a character, then I guess it means I don't like part of myself! I've ..."
I think some characters can be despicable - so long as there are others in there that you do care about. Books I have abandoned are ones where I really don't care about any of the characters.
Will wrote: "What is it about writing that makes you most nervous or uneasy?"editing! I hate it. Never know if I've been ruthless enough. For me all the fun is in that blank sheet of the first draft. Second draft onwards - and this is for me, not necessarily all writers - the creativity has largely gone out of it and it's quite a dry process.
Darren wrote: "A quick drive by to shout 'break a pencil' before getting the kids to bed. Just chill and enjoy it. *It helps to imagine Lorraine in her underwear ... but then that's also a general rule."
DARREN YOU CHEEKY BOY !!!
i get the go back in time and change the future (present for the time traveller) bit but where did the "repeating/extending the same scene over based on one small thing different happening" come from? i have done NLP and rehearsing conversations yet to happen in different ways is one of the techniques, as is going over conversations that have happened and working out what you said/did wrong and how you could have changed the outcome... is this something you thought about wrt to that part of the book?
Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)"who's Schwarzy?"
Arnold ! Sorry it's easie..."
Schwartzy! lol! He's a marmite character!
Katy wrote: "If you could choose to be a character in anything you've written, which would it be?(:"gosh, that's an almost impossible, since most of them have unhappy endings!
But I also think I am them, or they are me. Parts of me at least. I'm going to have to try and think of a proper answer to this question!
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Marc wrote: "Doh! Got it! Am I a fan? Yes and no. He's brilliant doing the limited range of roles that he gets cast in. But he's probably a bit old for them now, plus being Governor of California s..."*Digitally enhanced* for a body builder that's not good is it! :-)
Denise wrote: "Marc wrote: "Denise wrote: "Do you have a favourite from the characters you've created? Or any that you really don't like?"If I don't like a character, then I guess it means I don't like part of ..."
I prefer having unreliable narrators, those who keep the reader off balance. They're not necessarily despicable
Denise wrote: "Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Are you a fan of Schwarzy? I is very much so (no shame lol!)"who's Schwarzy?"
Arnold ! Sor..."
Or Fulham's goalkeeper!
Kath wrote: "i get the go back in time and change the future (present for the time traveller) bit but where did the "repeating/extending the same scene over based on one small thing different happening" come fr..."well it's a mixture of things Kath. I've written a flash piece where someone is desperately trying to recall a breaking-up conversation, and their memory is trying to get the words right in order to analyse them, but of course the words are jumbled, rearranged, lost etc. That's how we have conversations, again from my playwriting days.
But it's also a couple of scientific ideas, that of different choices leading to different outcomes that fork off into different worlds and different realities. And then the Butterfly Effect, which states that it's impossible to predict complex system because even a tiny change at the outset (the flapping of a butterfly's wings) can change all that follows after it radically by a chain reaction of knock on effects./ I was interested in structuring a novel around that.
Kath, your question got me totally confused ! I so don't get that time travelling stuff ! But at least Time After Time is rather easy to understand because it doesn't get lost in all the scientific explanations of it... Or I'm yet to get there...
Hi all - first time I've entered a live chat so v interesting to read everyone's comments.
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Kath, your question got me totally confused ! I so don't get that time travelling stuff ! But at least Time After Time is rather easy to understand because it doesn't get lost in all the scientific..."I wanted to keep the thing fairly straightforward in terms of the words, so it could let me be a bit more complex in the structure. When you write dialogue, it has to be believable that someone would actually speak like that. You can always tell unrealistic dialogue. So the discipline of that kept the language in check.
I did struggle with the rapping thing a bit, but I expected that, but I also found a lot of words that I didn't know in your book. It's been a while since I looked up so many words... How did you acquire your vocabulary?
Anne wrote: "Hi all - first time I've entered a live chat so v interesting to read everyone's comments."Hi Anne! *waves*
Hi Anne ! Welcome and feel free to join in with your very own questions !
Hi Marc, just wondered if your flash fiction just happens like that (arrives in your head in a flash!), or is it slower than that? Is there any difference between how you write a shorty and a novel, or do you approach them the same way?PS I wondered if that was what the butterfly was doing at the start of Time after Time!
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Kath, your question got me totally confused ! I so don't get that time travelling stuff ! But at least Time After Time is rather easy to understand because it doesn't get lost in all the scientific..."I like the idea of time travel - but don't think about it too much otherwise my brain explodes! I take it all at face value!
Marc, I can understand hating editing. We all hate it. Do you use an independent editor as well as DIY?
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Kath, your question got me totally confused ! I so don't get that time travelling stuff ! But at least Time After Time is rather easy to understand because it doesn't get lost in all the scientific..."time after time (well my opinion anyway) can be read on many different levels, there is scope to read it just as a good story and accept all the scenario stuff and time travel and just enjoy the ride. but there is also room to really think about the concepts and get in deeper. and then there are all the levels in between...
Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "I did struggle with the rapping thing a bit, but I expected that, but I also found a lot of words that I didn't know in your book. It's been a while since I looked up so many words... How did you a..."that's the weird thing. I didn't read as a boy, too busy playing sports. So i don't actually know. But one of my twins is exactly the same; never picks up a book, but he is so eloquent with a stunning vocabulary. Could it be genetic? I did always make sure I explained everything when they asked questions and I didn't simplify the language when I talked to them, so maybe that was nurture more than nature?
I am a good observer of people, so I pick up on their conversations. Also I'm an only child, so my parents always included me when they had their adult friends round. maybe these things contributed?
Kath wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "Kath, your question got me totally confused ! I so don't get that time travelling stuff ! But at least Time After Time is rather easy to understand because it..."Yea it definitely gives food to the mind ! Like do men honestly think that a world ruled by women would end up being like that !!??? ;)
Marc wrote: "Lorraine - Lover of Jellybeans wrote: "I did struggle with the rapping thing a bit, but I expected that, but I also found a lot of words that I didn't know in your book. It's been a while since I l..."I think so Marc. We never talked baby to our son, and he's always been more advanced with his vocabulary than most children his age :)
Questions, questions. You're obviously someone who weighs every word - do you have favourites you have to limit the use of? And, etymologies, how often in a page of writing would you consider the buried root of a word?
