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Please share what inspires you, has touched you or is in some way memorable for you. I'm very fond of quotes by writers that give me a peek inside their skulls, like this one. :)
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. - Doug Lawson
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go. - Doug Lawson
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Permalink Reply by scribbler on
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"Don't say the old lady screamed- bring her on and let her scream." Mark Twain
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Permalink Reply by Sean Noonan on
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This sounds exactly right. My characters tend to have a life of their own in the stories. They become real in my imagination, either that or they are wooden and need to be brought to life.... sounds familiar somehow.
My favourite character is possibly Grumphspawn, who has been about for over ten years already but has just recenly made it to the written word. He has redeemable qualities and a very large ability to imagine too.
Who is your favourite book character and why?
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
Get out there and live a life! Then you'll have some experiences to draw upon for your writing.
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Permalink Reply by Kay Elizabeth on
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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.- Benjamin Spock
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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak." - Baruch Spinoza
And before anyone shouts at me, I'm reading that as meaning mankind, not the gender. :)
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Absolutely agree ith his one. My life experiences give me good material and references for writing even for the childrens stories. So live life to the full and have fun.
scribbler said:"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
Get out there and live a life! Then you'll have some experiences to draw upon for your writing.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Transforming Dreams into reality is so much fun and very rewarding don't you think?
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Permalink Reply by Callie Leah on
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That is a very good philosiphy, and I agree with it, almost completely. I mean, you could go out and climb a mountain, then give the best descriptive scene about climbing a mountain, but if you are a writer who mostly writes fantasy, like me, then it's not very easy to go out and meet a unicorn. :) I understand the phrase completely, but I always have a tendancy to point out little things like that. Sorry.
scribbler said:"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
Get out there and live a life! Then you'll have some experiences to draw upon for your writing.
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Rodin
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Even if you write fantasy you need to have experienced life. If you've never felt joy, despondency, exhilaration, fear, trepidation, anxiety, anticipation and so on how can you write about them convincingly?
If your character meets a unicorn or even is a unicorn and you have never experienced whatever feeling you want to convey them as having, will it read as being authentic? Not as much as if you, the writer, had experienced that emotion yourself and can transfer that to the page. :)
Callie Leah said:That is a very good philosiphy, and I agree with it, almost completely. I mean, you could go out and climb a mountain, then give the best descriptive scene about climbing a mountain, but if you are a writer who mostly writes fantasy, like me, then it's not very easy to go out and meet a unicorn. :) I understand the phrase completely, but I always have a tendancy to point out little things like that. Sorry.
scribbler said:"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Henry David Thoreau
Get out there and live a life! Then you'll have some experiences to draw upon for your writing.
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Sean, i think your question got lost in this thread because it was off topic. It would be better to add a new discussion and ask that if there's not one already on that. :) I don't have an outright favorite myself.
Sean Noonan said:This sounds exactly right. My characters tend to have a life of their own in the stories. They become real in my imagination, either that or they are wooden and need to be brought to life.... sounds familiar somehow.
My favourite character is possibly Grumphspawn, who has been about for over ten years already but has just recenly made it to the written word. He has redeemable qualities and a very large ability to imagine too.
Who is your favourite book character and why?
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