tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343732055246275702.post8697850998075854776..comments2024-01-09T00:31:38.876-06:00Comments on Marion Sipe Illustration: Thoughts on Creating Character VoiceMarion Sipehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13018535641577067069noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343732055246275702.post-82259032052998066202011-05-29T17:59:20.132-05:002011-05-29T17:59:20.132-05:00Huh. That's really cool. I generally obsess....Huh. That's really cool. I generally obsess. The more I think about the characters, the more I know about them. So, by the end of the book, I feel I know them pretty well. There's always more to learn though. Yay for sequels! :-DMarion Sipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13018535641577067069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343732055246275702.post-61009848570164253002011-05-24T07:23:27.635-05:002011-05-24T07:23:27.635-05:00I don't really know.
I always have to adjust ...I don't really know. <br />I always have to adjust the first parts of the story, because characters always develope while I'm writing. But it's not like at the end I really know them and not before. <br /><br />For some of them it is like that. That was the case for Justin, Adam's brother, for example: I understood his deepest reasons only in the last few chapters of the trilogy, so now I'm filling in all the (so numerous!) gaps. Some of them even take longer. Angelo is the only one character I'm not sure about. I know what kind of person he is, but even now that I finished the first draft and strated the second, I'm not really sure about his motives. <br /><br />For most of them, it comes a moment of reveletion, like the dialogue between Mat and Adam. And that could come any moment. It's like a door opens and suddenly I see everything clearly.Celebcùenhttp://www.rohirrim.itnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343732055246275702.post-11867781609045309172011-05-23T15:28:01.244-05:002011-05-23T15:28:01.244-05:00So you don't feel you really know them until t...So you don't feel you really know them until the end of the first draft then?<br /><br />I start with a image in my head of who they are, but the details of that person--and sometimes even the big stuff--don't really penetrate until I go back over it. I just write, and the characters develop over time, and then I always have to go back and fill things in!<br /><br />I'm so glad Blood and Michael (and Mat and Adam!) are talking to you!Marion Sipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13018535641577067069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343732055246275702.post-89268721927422029502011-05-23T15:01:25.095-05:002011-05-23T15:01:25.095-05:00Hi Mary :-)
It’s a nice post, especially because ...Hi Mary :-)<br /><br />It’s a nice post, especially because you work so different from me. Yes, my case is the one you suggested last: my characters usually start speaking to me while I’m writing the first draft. That’s actually one of the best part of the first draft for me (first draft sucks you blood, you know). <br /><br />The nicest experience is when you put a character in and he/she just do everything by themselves. Happens all the time to me. <br />For example, in my current WIP, I put in one of the… well he used to be ‘one of the characters’ but now he’s one of the more important. Adam: he started off like a weird guy, maybe a bit lost. Let’s say I just used him for plot purposes. And one of the other characters, Mat… well, let me tell you how much I love Mat! He started out like just one of the musicians and then he took up a big part of the story, and one of the more fan to write. <br />But this is not the point. About halfway through the trilogy, Adam and Mat have a conversation about Mat’s problem with alcohol and Adam offers an agreement to him, such that if Mat accepts, Adam won’t fire him.<br />Well, I don’t know what happened, I never planed it, the two characters just spoke to each other and… I don’t know, they changed while I was writing and especially Adam came out from that conversation completely changed. So changed, in fact, that now I’m reworking the first novel I can’t even recognise him. <br /><br />So this is what I usually do: I let the characters find their own way, then when I rewrite I know their true selves far better than I did when I started the story, and I just adjust their first appearances to what they finally became. <br /><br />This happens also with characters I know quite well. For example, Blood and Michael are basically the same characters they were in ‘Give in to the Feeling’, still there’s so much more about them now, so much I discovered while writing, even if I had thought I knew them so well.Celebcùenhttp://www.rohirrim.itnoreply@blogger.com