Re: Characters with their own ideas.

Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Tina Hall" <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

This is to people who are, one way or another, comfortable with
the idea that characters (seem to) have their own head, (as if)
alife.

At the rate I'm progressing in the trilogy, I'll soon get to
the point where I got stuck. [...]

My problem: They even deceive me. Have done so in the past, and
now I wonder whether they're still hiding something from me.

[...]

Sounds like if the characters are hiding something from you, they
may just want to surprise you. Take it in the spirit in which it
was given, maybe?

I don't mind when they surprise me. I'm constantly amazed at how things
turn out to just fit without prior planning. I'm so used to that that I
rely on it happening (rightly).

The problem is that I'm _stuck_. I don't know what the next line to
write down is.

There's a brief conversation, then the character's thoughts go rambling.
(Perhaps even evading what happens next, how should I know?) And then it
ends. Stops dead.

So, with knowing his folks are deceivers, I got to wonder what he might
be hiding from me, and how to get it out.

--
Tina
WIR: Seasons & Elements trilogy, a serial in three parts.
WISuspension: Magic Earth series, a serial in six parts.
Posted to Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.composition.

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