That's now been done. I have two brothers who haven't seen each other in forty years, a blind girl, a character who made his living as a magician in the 1940s, a middle-aged, unemployed construction worker with a secret, one woman who sacrificed much of her life for her children, another who was never able to have any, an old man, a pond, a bench, and a random act of violence that changed everything.
Some people think I shouldn't share this kind of information on my blog, but I see no reason not to. Trust me, I have enough trouble following my own train of thought when it comes to piecing together each story, so if anyone believes they can steal something useful, have fun with that.
Back to the point: I've sketched out the main story line for my new novel, and now I have all the characters impatiently waiting to drag their sub-plots into the mix. They are an interesting group and each one will contribute an essential piece of the puzzle that completes this story.
My old characters from The Silver Compass are fading fast and these new ones have begun to dominate my thoughts. And am I having fun? Yup! My day job rocks.
21 comments:
All those characters are a terrific combination already! I can't wait to see what you do with them. :-)
LOL How do you think this up?!
Do you spend months putting together your thoughts for a new book or do you really do it in a two week time period?
I labor to come up with two half-way decent characters in one of my shorts stories.
Wooo! Such an exciting time!
I totally know that feeling! Isn't it great?! It's like falling in love again. :) I'm going through that right now with my new characters. It's so fun. Can't wait to see what you do with that interesting cast.
Great stuff, Holly! Enjoy the discovery.
Ha! I need to be drinking
before I can think up characters
that mesh together like that.
My problem is I never finish my WIPS! Starting them and dreaming up the characters is always the easy part for me. Somewhere around page 100 I always give up and get depressed.
You need to start charging these characters rent for taking up so much mental AND emotional space! ;)
I know what you mean about leaving characters. It's really hard to do.
It's really fun to create characters. The only problem is I have so many now I need to eliminate a few of my book will be nothing but descriptions of them.
LOL* I wish I could borrow your brain for a few days so I could get my characters sorted out!
It seems for months now they've been tangled in a free for all wrestling match and I've gotten nothing done!!!!
I love that stage of writing, where you get to play with new characters and think about all the different plot possibilities. Enjoy it!
It sounds wonderful. I cannot wait to read it! :*)
Sounds intriguing!
These are the characters for
The Keeper of the Pond then?
I love that imagery of shaking out the old characters and opening up a new bunch you can't wait to play with!
Can't wait to see the results :)
Holly, this is so exciting! Sounds like you've got another winneer!
Very cool.
You tell great stories. Don't knock that mind of yours! It might give you headaches but it gives me joy when I read your books.
A bench?
Cool.
Could you name it "ABenchPress?"
heh heh!!
:-)
THose characters rock!!
Sounds like it will be
a good book. (Sure enjoy
your blog posts.)
Sounds great. Like you I start with characters and go from there, but unlike you I have to do all of this by the darkness of night since my day job is needed in order for my family to eat, but someday ...
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