Comments on: A to Z Challenge: L is for Listening to your Characters https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/ Sat, 16 Apr 2016 20:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: JHWinter https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-383 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 20:37:49 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-383 In reply to Rowena.

You are really having to listen to your characters/subjects for this A to Z Challenge! It would be amazing to read the letters they could write back to you with answers to your questions, wouldn’t it? I always thought you had a wonderful idea for the challenge. Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Rowena https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-382 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:17:18 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-382 Great topic and I was kind of relieved to read it because I’m not feeling quite as crazy writing letters to dead poets, asking them questions and then getting answers pop in my head out of nowhere, which may or may not be the answer to the question I’d asked. These letters are mostly non-fiction and include a fair bit of memoir but the whole thing is deliberately organic.
The other thing I’ve found is that putting these poets together in alphabetical order has been quite interesting. There is the common thread that they’re all poets and ones I’ve related to, but there’ve been taken across 35 years and my interests have changed. I’ve gone more from the English romantics and some real dark angst poets to Asian poets and Kahlil Gibran, Rumi. So the switch between poets can be quite choppy and unpredictable. I didn’t put out a list beforehand either to keep the suspense. Some of the poets have committed suicide and John Lennon was shot so alot of intensity to deal with and quite a few ethical issues too. My head has been very full. Thanks again xx Rowena

]]> By: JHWinter https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-381 Sat, 16 Apr 2016 03:22:32 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-381 In reply to Katy Walker.

That can definitely be the case sometimes. I’m somewhere in the middle (leaning more toward being a Pantser though). I like to have notes written up about some of the characters, potential scenes, the possible climax of the story, etc. This gives me a general direction, but also allows things to be fluid enough to change them if I need to.

]]> By: Katy Walker https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-380 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:38:57 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-380 I am definitely a panster so far. But, now that I am rewriting parts for a 3rd time, maybe I need to give my characters a little bit of direction. They are CRAZY.

]]> By: JHWinter https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-379 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:08:09 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-379 In reply to Patricia Lynne.

I just write down ideas/concepts for a story before I start. I don’t have anything set in stone though and it makes for a book that is much more fun to write, because I don’t even know where it will take me. It always ends with something very interesting though 😉

]]> By: Patricia Lynne https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-378 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:50:45 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-378 My characters do this to me all the time. It’s why I can’t plot. That and because the time I did plot a story, I lost the will to write it because I knew what would happen so where was the fun?

~Ninja Minion Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, Indie Author

]]> By: JHWinter https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-377 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:24:26 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-377 In reply to Crackerberries.

Thank you for stopping by! Our characters are pretty intuitive when it comes to how the story should go. It’s best we listen 😉

]]> By: Crackerberries https://frizzybee.com/a-to-z-challenge-l-is-for-listening-to-your-characters/#comment-376 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:27:58 +0000 http://blog.jhwinter.com/?p=421#comment-376 This is so true about our characters… we have a plan and they somehow take over the plan we have set and go in their own direction. Great post for today’s L Challenge. It’s always when we don’t listen to our character that things go wrong… thank you for sharing this today, it will help me where I’m stumbled on my own L Challenge. Cheers!

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