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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
workshop wednesday - faces and names
Meet Dev from TEMPTATION. No, it's not perfect. I picture him having more golden hair and skin, longer hair. But the face is pretty close. 
And here's Teresa. I picture her hair as being wilder, wavier when it's down but the overall look is right.
When I'm working on a project, I almost always find an image that represents the main characters. Sometimes I cast the whole book in my head. I find it helps me to describe the characters better if I look at actual faces. I try not to make the comparisons because that's lazy and it might date the book, but in my head...
So how do you guys bring your characters to life?
And here's Teresa. I picture her hair as being wilder, wavier when it's down but the overall look is right.
When I'm working on a project, I almost always find an image that represents the main characters. Sometimes I cast the whole book in my head. I find it helps me to describe the characters better if I look at actual faces. I try not to make the comparisons because that's lazy and it might date the book, but in my head...
So how do you guys bring your characters to life?
Labels: Workshop Wednesday, writing
My current project is Clive Owen and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Mmm, Clive Owen. I love him. Maggie was so good in Stranger than Fiction. I'm totally buying that DVD.
I think it might read it, whatever it is, just cause you told me that's your mental image.
Kinda boring, but it works for me. lol
Arie was Hugh Jackman. Mathilda used to be Natalie Portman, a long time ago, but she morphed. By the end, she was just herself. She had no counterpart. Funny, that.
I tend to use the photos for physical descriptions, noticing particulars about their faces or stances to put across in the book. Then they take on a life of their own in prose.
It's not boring if it works for you, Cora.
And yes, Carrie, we totally share hot guy taste.
Y'know, if such genetic mixing were actually possible.
Funny you should mention that. Because the heroine in this story is incapable of having children. And unlike a lot of other romance writers, I'm not going to sell her out by having her suddenly become fertile on account of true luuuurve!
Twuuuuuuuuuu wuuuuuuuuuuuubbbbbb
Good on you, Jacq. I did the same with Your Alibi. No magical spermies can cure her infertile vagina, even if she loves the makers of the spermies.
But seriously, Amelia's just not a motherly type. I think she'll be much happier being childfree!