Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

A lot of my MCs have similar habits - biting lips, cracking knuckles, etc. Probably because these are MY habits! ;) But I try to make all my MCs look different.

Just throwing this out there... all my books have a board... I have a problem. http://www.pinterest.com/nicolecastro...

*clicks link*
*stares*

Nicole, we really need to get your books made into movies ;)

Lol nicole :x I see a theme with those men hahaha :p


I love pinterest.

@Ken OK!!!!

@Bisky They're all hot as hell??? :D The House series boys are all related, so I tried to get guys that kind of have similar traits. :)

Ahh that explains it :] Viking has been compared to Jared leto. He wants to get buff so he can be on the cover of my book :P

Nicole wrote: "Just throwing this out there... all my books have a board... I have a problem. http://www.pinterest.com/nicolecastro..."

I have one for each of my books as well. It's a nice way to collect all those mental images in one spot. (Incidentally, I'm following some of your clips now.)

I write text to describe the movie in my head I have of each story- location, mood, characters but then wind up paring down the narrative to something much more sparse. It's like Ayn Rand being whittled down by John Steinbeck. Some of the details get lost, but there's enough left to infer that mental image. I don't like to tell my readers everything. I want them to engage, create their own mental images.

I don't like telling my readers everything, either. I read the Hunger Games book before I saw any movie clips of it, and I actually liked the arena better in my head. (I have only seen trailer clips, but from seeing those, I still like my mental version better-haha) :3

I tried that Pinterest and put a cast together for my story. :3 http://www.pinterest.com/josuelight/

Putting this list together helps push the anime pictures out of my head lol

@Nicole: tried the link, just got a 404 message. Too bad. Sounds like some people got an eyeful!

When I write a character they must be based on real people at least to start with that way they can really come alive. In some of my books my characters coming alive becomes a problem and they take over the book and decide where it will go and what will happen. That happened in my comedy Lazonby Trips the Light Fantastic when that happens I really get to love my people and hate the fact that the book is finished! No problems I can always go back and visit them.

I read somewhere that everyone you dream of you have actually seen before. I found a indie musician who looks just like the main character from one of my books and I've not stopped stalking him since. I need more followers. Notice me, dammit!

I totally agree with this. I usually have a person in mind, but since I also do graphic design (photo manipulation) I can normally create the final look of the character. But for my book, "Countdown to a Kiss", the main characters were stock images, that I manipulated and oddly enough they ended up looking like "real" actors: Tiffany Hines (from CW "Nikita" and movie, "Perfect Combination") and actor "Christian Keyes" from various Tyler Perry Movies. That wasn't the initial intent, but after seeing them, they'd make the best couple for a live-action trailer promo for the book!

@Bisky - It seems that the only people I dream about are those I've seen in person. That theory applies to me. I moved to university in late August, and a couple weeks ago I started dreaming about people from here.

@Kandie - Having realistic photos to represent characters can boost motivation a bit. :3 I can picture this man bleeding on a bed who has a real face, instead of a phantom I see in my head.

I've had someone offer to draw Blood and Emerald, its pretty freaking epic to see someone else's interpretation. I'd link his twitter but he has mysteriously dissapeared lol

Those of you with artistic ability hold a huge advantage over the rest of us. It's like Richard Dreyfuss' sculpture in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He could climb Devil's Tower because he know it's topography.

Kamil wrote: "I must confess something; i have some issues with the description of my WIP heroine's hair; since she wears wigs (as a sideeffect of a powerfull mahic spell she became bald)"

That sounds awesome!

I try not to be too specific about the look of my protagonist. I want readers to be able to identify with them and even imprint their own features on the character to an extent. Can be tricky how far to go (or not go) that way. You have to give a sense of the character's physicality, but do it in such a way as not to put anyone off. Too good looking seems cheesy. Too ugly defeats the purpose, except with villains, of course. A friend of mine gave me a funny tip once. He said if you're writing a character that's really close to a real person (male) and you're worried that you might get sued, just give him a small penis. That way no one will ever come forward and say, that's me.

Jonah wrote: "I try not to be too specific about the look of my protagonist. I want readers to be able to identify with them and even imprint their own features on the character to an extent. Can be tricky how f..."

Too funny, Jonah. I might do that intentionally, just to see the reaction.

Everything about this thread is gold. Bunnie onesies, small penises, totally classic.

Personally I like to plan things out in detail for my own brainspace and then getting less specific to describe them to the reader. The reader needs to know enough to get an image going, but is unlikely to care enough to read, y'know, multiple paragraphs of character description.

I got a Hello Kitty onesie for my birthday. Just incase anyone needs inspiration

:p

Maybe my character who loves rubber duckies could wear a rubbery ducky onesie, if there's such a thing... lol! x3

There probably is somewhere :P (they debated on getting me a pikachu one :p)

haha a Pikachu one would be awesome! lol

I've got chocolate all over it already :[

D8 throw it the washing machine! take it to the dry-cleaners! save the costume from the evil chocolate!! D8

Just makes me extra tasty ^_^