...you're driving to work carrying on a conversation with them as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
I'm talking about characters.
So there I was, driving to work as I always do. Y'know how you drive to work for the umpteenth time to the point that you're not even using your conscious mind to do it? The drive is so automatic, so routine, that you could probably do it with just your autonomic brain functions? It was one of those kinds of drives.
And I found, almost at my destination, that I had been carrying on a conversation with the two women who comprise the main and primary/secondary characters in the novel I'm working on at present.
I've said this before, but for me, I know I've got 'em when I can hear 'em. Not see them--for some reason, I don't go in for the visuals as much as the sounds of my characters. But once I can hear them talking, using their own timbre and diction, I know I've got 'em.
Just a quick one today.
Be seeing you!
I'm talking about characters.
So there I was, driving to work as I always do. Y'know how you drive to work for the umpteenth time to the point that you're not even using your conscious mind to do it? The drive is so automatic, so routine, that you could probably do it with just your autonomic brain functions? It was one of those kinds of drives.
And I found, almost at my destination, that I had been carrying on a conversation with the two women who comprise the main and primary/secondary characters in the novel I'm working on at present.
I've said this before, but for me, I know I've got 'em when I can hear 'em. Not see them--for some reason, I don't go in for the visuals as much as the sounds of my characters. But once I can hear them talking, using their own timbre and diction, I know I've got 'em.
Just a quick one today.
Be seeing you!
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