Tane
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Robyn Carr:
Your book have very endearing characters. When you start writing stories, how do you imagine your characters and give them life?
Robyn Carr
I wish there was an easy answer, but the process of characterization is long and complex. Writing teachers have written whole books about how to characterize. I'll give you two rules of thumb -- consistency and with respect to human nature. By the middle of the novel the character should be identifiable by what he says and how he says it and it should not contradict what is universally accepted as human nature. But like I said, it's something I'm still studying and learning after 40 years of writing!
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Andrea O'keefe
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Robyn Carr:
The characters in your books seem so real. When I finish a book or the series is over, I feel disappointed. I want to know what happens next! Do the characters always end up as you expected when you start writing a series? Has there ever been a character that turned out different from your original plan? When you are writing and developing your characters, do they feel like friends or family to you?
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Oct 10, 2016 01:23AM · flag