http://www.passionatecritters.org/2009/05/24/easy-or-hard/ Romance Writing Critique Group Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.passionatecritters.org/2009/05/24/easy-or-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Jenn Mon, 25 May 2009 14:46:08 +0000 http://www.passionatecritters.org/?p=252#comment-308 I agree about getting to know them, Silke. I thought I knew my heroine, but I guess not. I actually knew some of my secondary characters better. I also think I tried to fit her into a mold and it doesn't fit. Lessons learned! :) I agree about getting to know them, Silke. I thought I knew my heroine, but I guess not. I actually knew some of my secondary characters better. I also think I tried to fit her into a mold and it doesn’t fit. Lessons learned!

]]> http://www.passionatecritters.org/2009/05/24/easy-or-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Silke Mon, 25 May 2009 08:25:42 +0000 http://www.passionatecritters.org/?p=252#comment-307 Last year at SoCNoc, I started a novel where I thought it would be hard to write. I didn't like the hero, because he's the bad guy in several other stories. I thought it would be difficult to write, because I didn't really emphasize with him. You could have knocked me down with a feather, when I looked up 60k words later and there he was, full of life, and not at all how I expected him to be. I always have trouble with heroines. They start off all well and good, and then turn into doormats. They are hard for me to write, but Mason? Mason flew from my fingers onto the page, alive and most definitely kicking. She wasn't a doormat. Again, a huge surprise for me. I loved writing that book, it was truly fun to discover what happens with those two. But the one prior to their story? Ugh. It's hard. Soo...sooo hard. I might start that one over, for SoCNoC this year and hope I have another "Wow, this is writing itself" time. But I doubt it. :) I think the key is to get to know your characters. I knew my hero, even though I didn't like him. I'd known him for several books. It made things a lot easier, and allowed me to make him more threedimensional. Last year at SoCNoc, I started a novel where I thought it would be hard to write.
I didn’t like the hero, because he’s the bad guy in several other stories. I thought it would be difficult to write, because I didn’t really emphasize with him.
You could have knocked me down with a feather, when I looked up 60k words later and there he was, full of life, and not at all how I expected him to be.
I always have trouble with heroines. They start off all well and good, and then turn into doormats. They are hard for me to write, but Mason? Mason flew from my fingers onto the page, alive and most definitely kicking. She wasn’t a doormat.
Again, a huge surprise for me. I loved writing that book, it was truly fun to discover what happens with those two.
But the one prior to their story?
Ugh.
It’s hard. Soo…sooo hard.
I might start that one over, for SoCNoC this year and hope I have another “Wow, this is writing itself” time.
But I doubt it.
I think the key is to get to know your characters.
I knew my hero, even though I didn’t like him. I’d known him for several books.
It made things a lot easier, and allowed me to make him more threedimensional.

]]> http://www.passionatecritters.org/2009/05/24/easy-or-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Jennifer Bianco » Blog Archive » Easy or Hard? Sun, 24 May 2009 08:26:47 +0000 http://www.passionatecritters.org/?p=252#comment-305 [...] Current Mood: ConfusedToday I’m discussing how some books practically write themselves while others run and hide at Passionate Critters. [...] [...] Current Mood: ConfusedToday I’m discussing how some books practically write themselves while others run and hide at Passionate Critters. [...]

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