30 days of Writing: #11
Sep. 9th, 2010 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathriel11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
Hard question! I love to write all my characters, otherwise I wouldn't write them- I don't think a character that you don't enjoy writing is one people will enjoy reading. I have the most amazing time when I was writing the first draft of The Poppet and the Lune- the patchwork girl was such an an interesting character to write, and her story flowed out from me as easily as breathing.
I had a blast writing Ana and Kyla in The Heirophant because, even though Ana was sometimes boring, Kyla was the fun one and together they were that kind of ridiculous-best-friend fun that is soothing (and hilarious) to write.
Malcom has always been great fun to write because he's so bad-ass, as in the most important, powerful person in the universe, also a teenager who seems to always know more of what's going on than the rest of us.
My least favorite characters to write? Well, they've generally been the characters I don't know too well, and in correcting that I find they're much more fun to write. I've learned that characters who are boring but necessary don't necessarily have to be boring, so I try to keep them interesting for my potential audience's sake, as well as my own.
I don't really like writing the skeezy bad guys who do awful things. Makes me feel gross for having imagined them. But when a story wants to be told, it gives me the players and I put them down on the page.
Hard question! I love to write all my characters, otherwise I wouldn't write them- I don't think a character that you don't enjoy writing is one people will enjoy reading. I have the most amazing time when I was writing the first draft of The Poppet and the Lune- the patchwork girl was such an an interesting character to write, and her story flowed out from me as easily as breathing.
I had a blast writing Ana and Kyla in The Heirophant because, even though Ana was sometimes boring, Kyla was the fun one and together they were that kind of ridiculous-best-friend fun that is soothing (and hilarious) to write.
Malcom has always been great fun to write because he's so bad-ass, as in the most important, powerful person in the universe, also a teenager who seems to always know more of what's going on than the rest of us.
My least favorite characters to write? Well, they've generally been the characters I don't know too well, and in correcting that I find they're much more fun to write. I've learned that characters who are boring but necessary don't necessarily have to be boring, so I try to keep them interesting for my potential audience's sake, as well as my own.
I don't really like writing the skeezy bad guys who do awful things. Makes me feel gross for having imagined them. But when a story wants to be told, it gives me the players and I put them down on the page.
