tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post7741702186141301356..comments2024-03-08T05:24:28.285-05:00Comments on Nevets.QST: Writing Persona - Another Character?C. N. Nevetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-31863226999626252802009-05-13T04:40:00.000-04:002009-05-13T04:40:00.000-04:00A friend and fellow writer once asked me why I put...A friend and fellow writer once asked me why I put one of my characters through so much harm (physical, mental, emotional), and when would I ease up. "Where's all this coming from?" she asked.<br /><br />I shrugged. I have no idea. However, my characters do seem to endure a lot of trauma.<br /><br />Bored and annoyed with the same story being told with just the names and settings changed over the course of a few manuscripts, I asked the 70-something writer when he'd write something new. "When I'm done writing about alcoholic, randy old lawmen," he said.Keanan Brandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12638962927055276969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-10607420179587688662009-05-11T00:17:00.000-04:002009-05-11T00:17:00.000-04:00Deb, I definitely you and RJ are teasing when you ...Deb, I definitely you and RJ are teasing when you remark upon that aspect of my writing over on Flashy Fiction. And well you should. There's no question what I write tends to be a lot darker than most of what the rest of y'all over there come up with.<br /><br />I'm not sure I phrased my post entirely right. I guess when I get down to it, what interests me at the moment isn't so much the Tom Clancy, Louis L'Amour, Robert Ludlum, phenomenon so much as, "What the crap does all this edgy, dark stuff have to do with my actual personality?"C. N. Nevetshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375714948653196993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-73193866438664786862009-05-11T00:12:00.000-04:002009-05-11T00:12:00.000-04:00That's an interesting question. I mostly identify ...That's an interesting question. I mostly identify with the pieces I write in some way because, as a young adult, I either had those same issues of heartbreak, insecurities, etc. OR I WISH I had had the funny, cool experiences I write about. So in some ways my writing is me. In other ways, it's not. That's what I like to write. I guess readers take what they want to. Does that make any sense? <br /><br />I know I've teased you on the Flashy Fiction pieces, but I truly don't see you as macabre individual! You are a talented writer who is very good at that style. That's what you like to write. <br />People characterizing you by what you write are like people who think actors really ARE the characters they portray in a movie.Deb Markantonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09504649268821803688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681522276752048718.post-72400967491983081832009-05-10T23:56:00.000-04:002009-05-10T23:56:00.000-04:00Pimp Tag = Meta.
Hmm. Well, I know a lot of reade...Pimp Tag = Meta.<br /><br />Hmm. Well, I know a lot of readers that have a very specific picture of Jane Austen in their head from her heroines. Most readers expect Stephen King to be a huge creep. As rational (thinking) humans in a vastly random world, we try to categorize and separate our experience into bite size portions.<br /><br />And, yeah, <I>avoids conflict like the plague</I>, I do that too.B. Nagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620736939701035617noreply@blogger.com