I don't even know what my characters are going to say. I just put them in a situation and they say stuff.

I try to detach from the whole thing as what I would do would always end the movie too soon.

@ Christian Re: "I just put them in a situation and they say stuff." That's cool place to be in. I'm envious :P


For me SOMETIMES my characters speak. One of the coolest writing experiences I had was when I felt what one of my chacters was feeling. Happened while writing "Revenge of the Fat Chicks" (Act I of which is availible on the GITS Club, but I digress) I could feel her pain. Her struggle. That character's name is Billie Whamms.

Most of the time I'm trying to get the place that Christain seems to channel so easily (jealousy surfacing again), but it's a process. When the plot's developed and I'm working off an outline, I have experieced fictional character deviation. I'm sure at some point the people in loony bin will have a more elaborate, clinical/medical-ese name for it, but until then let's just call it fictional character deviation -- and leave it at that!

Personnally I like it when the characters come alive in your mind. That's when you get to experience things that normally wouldn't in real life.

Patience. Perserverance. Believe in yourself. Realize that as a writer you aren't ALWAYS going to have ALL the answers on a given day. Try to chip away at your writing. Keeping adding peices. Then try to fit those peices in your story's master picture.

That's how you handle the extreams in writing. Sometimes, as Leonardo DiCaprio says in "Titantic," you feel like, "I'm king of the word." Other days you feel like a mis-guided shlock who'll never write anything worth reading again. Those are wild extremes indeed. A topic well-worth devling into for those who call themselves "writers."

- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA