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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-10-07 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2105 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2105 ⌋

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cassandraoftroy: Chiana from Farscape, an alien with grayscale skin and hair (Default)

Re: Ranting about your main characters

[personal profile] cassandraoftroy 2012-10-08 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes when a writer is trying to flesh out details about a character's personality or backstory, they will have the sense that there is a specific right answer to a particular question about that character, even if the author hasn't figured out what that answer is yet. Finding that answer feels less like "making it up" and more like "discovering it." I've had that experience, with characters supplying personal details about their history and preferences that I didn't know were true until I wrote them. Sometimes I've tried to name a character, and the impression I had of that character in my head "rejected" a bunch of names until I hit upon the "right" one. It didn't feel like, "Yes, this is the name I like best for this character, I think I'll use that." It felt like, "Aha, that's your name, isn't it?"

Re: Ranting about your main characters

(Anonymous) 2012-10-08 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What you said sounds logical and normal. What OP said does not. They're similar concepts it's just that OP seems to have taken it a bit too far.