<![CDATA[Word Weavers]]>Freewebshttp://weaversofwords.webs.com/blogweaversweb.htm<![CDATA[Repost: Loving your characters]]> So... I went to see "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" today.
First of all, fabulous movie as always. I just love the Harry Potter
series and love reading J. K. Rowling's stuff as I see her develop as a
writer with each passing book. Now that she's through with Harry
though, I do hope she finds another world to enchant us with and sticks
to her craft. The idea of her being a 7 hit wonder... well, that's
just disturbing.
Anyway, I digress... like I usually do.
I
was watching the movie and just completely sucked in and listening to
the comments of people around me through the scenes and enjoying it.
She's created such an awesome world as did J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S.
Lewis and Melanie Rawn. I name those authors only or my list will be
much, much too long. The thing that is constant with them is their
characters and the struggles they go through. They have created such
memorable characters that when one of them dies, the reader feels it.
The emotion is only a part of it. Getting to know the character makes
up the rest, in my opinion.
So the point of this blog is to get
some feedback. How "in to" your characters do you get? Is it wrong to
think of them as real people if only in your mind? If a well loved
character dies, do you cry or just think to yourself, "Oh it's just a
made up person, they aren't real".
My characters I really get in
to. A couple of them are based off of friends of mine so yes, that
adds to it. Kayta for example is me. So is Nightshadow and Sorcha.
Three women with different traits and personalities, yet at the heart
of them all, they're like me. Kayta is strong, knowledgeable and a
born leader. So am I. Nightshadow is my assassin, sometimes heartless
and vicious, but really does care about what people think of her deep
down. Also like me. Sorcha is the pyrate, ruthless, bloodthirsty but
at the core of it all would help someone in need should the need
arise. Again...::points to herself::
While most of you would
read these personality traits and say, "Nah, Mel... you're not vicious
or ruthless" you didn't know me way back when. ;) How much of
yourself do you put in each of your characters? I believe there is a
little bit of yourself in each and every character you create. Even in
the bad guys. Nightshadow is my evil side, the side that I could never
let loose and have to keep reined in on a very tight leash. She's the
part of me that I am actually allowed to let loose only in fiction.
And fiction is where she will have to stay. I could never, as a human
being, do half the things she does even if I wanted to because I have a
conscience. Nightshadow lost hers a long time ago. ::Chuckles::
So, again, how much of you is in your characters and do you think the memorable ones are what truly sell the books? ]]>http://weaversofwords.webs.com/blogweaversweb.htm?blogentryid=22951092007-10-05T19:45:00-0100<![CDATA[Welcome!]]>Well I sure hope so! Welcome to the Blog Page of the website. Here we hope to at least post something once a week, perhaps twice a week if we're ambitious enough and if we're not busy pounding away on the keyboards in our mad attempts at either editing or writing the next great novel. ::Chuckles:: Feel free to discuss anything here. We look forward to sharing lots of info here. For starters, we now have a Yahoo! Group. Of course it is called WeaversofWords at the moment, but that is quite all right. It will be a much faster way to get information out to you and reliable as well. We know you won't miss an email, but you might miss a bulletin and I sure don't want to sit and send out messages to over 600 people one at a time. Do you? Then you are hired!! :) We're also going to provide more info on our site. So, we hope you will frequent us often and if not you, then perhaps your readers. I'm sure they'd love to get a glimpse of you here in a comfortable surrounding. Enjoy our site, our MySpace profile and our Group. We do these things for you, you know!