I've been thinking about that recently: that sense of experiencing or meeting your characters. With all my novels, there's been a tipping point after which my characters suddenly feel lot more real, when the craft clicks into place and I no longer have to concentrate quite so hard to summon their voices. I've hit that point with Triverse…
I've been thinking about that recently: that sense of experiencing or meeting your characters. With all my novels, there's been a tipping point after which my characters suddenly feel lot more real, when the craft clicks into place and I no longer have to concentrate quite so hard to summon their voices. I've hit that point with Triverse in the last couple of months, with the places and the characters being suddenly more solid and real in my head.
I don't subscribe to the "they came alive and just wrote themselves!" thing, but I do understand the notion. It's when as a writer you properly understand a character, and you instinctively know how they'd react in any given situation.
I still slightly miss hanging out with characters from my earlier books.
I've been thinking about that recently: that sense of experiencing or meeting your characters. With all my novels, there's been a tipping point after which my characters suddenly feel lot more real, when the craft clicks into place and I no longer have to concentrate quite so hard to summon their voices. I've hit that point with Triverse in the last couple of months, with the places and the characters being suddenly more solid and real in my head.
I don't subscribe to the "they came alive and just wrote themselves!" thing, but I do understand the notion. It's when as a writer you properly understand a character, and you instinctively know how they'd react in any given situation.
I still slightly miss hanging out with characters from my earlier books.