Exploring the characters is an interesting process. Interesting because things floats out of me that I didn’t know about, but feel so natural that it amazes me that I didn’t know about it all the time.
Makes any sense?
Well, let me explain.
I started with the names of the four main characters in one of the stories. I looked in one of those on-line databases with names and their etymology and wrote down every name that had a meaning that I felt suitable for the character.
Suddenly one name felt better than the others. Much better.
Then I started to do the same with the surname. The combination of the two names had to fit well together as a second requirement.
One character I got the name right on first try, the other took longer time, but on the whole it went rather smoothly.
Then I started to write about the characters. I started with the current situation and then went back in time.
And although I only knew the first sentence when I started to write, my fingers hardly left the keyboard, and yet filled the whole page.
Of course in some aspects one character is rather natural opposite of what I have written for another – like if one have had a childhood under small circumstances, the other have had wealth – but characters in a story are constructed to fit the needs. The job is to make them come alive.
And I do feel them come alive as I write about them, constructed or not. And that is the interesting part: Creative flow.
I just love to write.
2 comments:
You made my day with writing this. It's so interesting and entertaining how the proces of your writings flows and how you bring you characters alive. That's a very important point and it shows that you are a great writer and creative soul!
Thank you very much. You've made my day.
I hope you've had a great weekend, my friend.
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