So much of my outlining and then the actual writing is figuring out personalities and relationships. Who are the PEOPLE in my stories? When I have a grip on that, oh man…the scenes start to come to life. But, it takes time. And a lot of thought.
I was just thinking about a relationship in my new book. A new one. With a new, very important character. It’s getting there.
What I realized, though, as I was thinking, was that I base a lot of my characters on other characters. I see them inside my head like a movie. Most of my best characters, however, are based on people. Real people.
You know…now that I actually think about it…that’s not strictly true. Some of my favorite, most vivid characters I based on a fictional person; another character. So…I guess it’s a mix. It’s not so cut and dry. I was thinking I was going to write about how basing my characters off real people might be the next step to getting better at writing them…but now I think that’s probably bullshit. I think it’s whatever works. I have to keep digging around until it feels right. Until I feel like I’ve met them as a person and they’ve given me the thumbs up that I got it right.
I worked my ASS off today. Long days. Whew. I got done what I needed to. And I have so much stuff to upload, I’ll have to go over the hill into the offices tomorrow…but no matter. It’ll be done on time. And that wasn’t a guarantee this morning. I was (only slightly) stressed about it. My confidence in my own hard work seems to be justified. I will meet my deadline.
Need to find that with my writing…
And in that regard…sleep. And tomorrow, I need to actually set myself some writing deadlines.
Night night.