Comments on: Quite a Character

By: majorleague007

majorleague007 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:34:13 +0000

Ah, yes, nothing can quite match Psycho the musical.

By: L.R.

L.R. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:42:32 +0000

But it was rather a crossover between The Alamo and Fiddler on the Roof, so you’re actually not that far off…

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:40:27 +0000

I definitely misread that as,

“The Alamo, which also happens to be a musical. …”

Best musical ever, besides maybe Psycho.

By: L.R.

L.R. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:02:17 +0000

I’ve always wondered if it’s possible to write your own characters out of character (as opposed to writing somebody else’s characters, say, if you’re a TV writer picking up where someone else left off, or doing an adapted screenplay, or doing a sequel like “Scarlett” to “Gone with the Wind”) but I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that you can. (I think JK Rowling wrote a bunch of characters out of character in the final HP book.) They very quickly establish their own personalities, and to manipulate that to serve plot points can violate your own rules of characterization. And yet I don’t really quite understand how it is that character establish themselves in the first place. I don’t feel it’s always something conscious on my part. One more aspect of writing being magic, I guess.

I am SO glad I’m not alone in not being able to envision characters! It’s so annoying just having a blur for a face.

I think if I ever had the opportunity, I would insist on writing screenplays from my own books so I could meet all the movie people because that would just be cool!

By: curiousillusion

curiousillusion — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:05:56 +0000

Wow. I was reading this post and kept going, Yes!! YES!! First of all, I’ve heard that about writing characters, I find it so interesting but I suppose it makes sense… once you have an idea of how the 2 characters are, you can’t force them to do something that is against what you’ve created them to be.

And yes, I’m exactly like you when it comes to reading and thinking of characters. When I read, I don’t have a vision in my head of how they look, but when I see them in movie form, I know whether it’s right or not.

Love Anne Hathaway. If your book becomes a movie, you HAVE to let me meet her. Just once.