#meanwhile in novel land i was daydreaming earlier about what felix and dorothy would look like at 60 with grey hair and boring lives LOL | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

loverboydotcom · 10 months

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my very strong philosophy that i need to perceive my characters as real people in order to feel like i can write them at the depth a novel needs + i try to see expand my view of them as far as possible so they have a life an existence that a novel only snapshots a part of + this being a big part of my writers identity bc my relationship with my characters is very important to me is still very real but also very funny now because i've realised when it comes to short fiction i do not give a fuck like that. like i put everything into my characters bc i think making complex characters/relationships is my best skill but they are nothing but names to me (and i barely name my protagonists cause i just dont give a fuck if its not needed) and shadows reflecting an idea i thought was cool. like the way with novels i'll say felix and beau and dorothy are my best friends and they've just granted me access to their stories and i can't imagine how i'd go through life without thinking about them and their lives...then with short fiction the characters are just dolls that i throw out once i'm done with them

#like i feel for them but with my novel characters i can envision them and their life expanded beyond the story #whereas with short fiction characters i feel like im only meant to know them for this moment. like i dont want to go further #meanwhile in novel land i was daydreaming earlier about what felix and dorothy would look like at 60 with grey hair and boring lives LOL #ghost of a 1970s leather daddy was fun because the ghost was like. the only character #the pov was more of a disembodied collective voice that represents a group of people living together but also can be applied #to the wider community #omg when i write an essay on a 300 word piece #between us girls is fun because the pov is also collective but fragmented in a way to give each character their moment #and i feel for them in the sense that i feel like i could write more and get to know them like novel characters but im not going to LOL #i feel like we know just enough about them for the fleeting vibe of the piece to work BUT I WONT SAY ANYTHING ELSE #and the way i dont name so many protagonists....like i just dont give a fuck like that #the way i see flash majority of the time is i'm so tunnel visioned on less of the character and more what they experience #their name doesnt matter unless it's important to the experience of the story

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