I have this darling character, okay, I have several darling characters, okay and some not so darling. But hey, they're mine...all mine. They pester me. They taunt me. They whine, and complain and demand my attention. "Write about me next."
"No, you had your turn."
"She's done with you, it's seriously my time!"
I lie in bed--and each torments me with their stories. There's the abused wife suffering from the loss of her premature baby, the pyschotic shrink, the cowboy and his cadillac, the teenager who doesn't know she's adopted. Sometimes it's my elven child and her dragon who haunt me while I'm drifting off to sleep. Let's not under-estimate the villany of the wizard who would make her his bride in order to take her powers. Then there's man with the mysterious past come to heal a broken family.
So where do these people come from? My head, of course. Do any of you fellow writer have that same problem? Certainly, you do. That's what makes us writers. So what do you do when you have more than one story screaming to be written? I'd love to hear how you decide who gets your attention.
I'm glad my characters don't shut up, though, otherwise I'd have nothing to write about. So put me in a padded cell...
...just let me have my laptop, please!
I am a writer. As long as I can remember, I've loved the way words sound, look, feel. Words have power to build, power to destroy. With words I create my own realities. When you read my words, we take that journey together. Thanks for being my traveling companion. ~Betsy Love LDS Author
I joke with my husband all the time that a padded cell would be just fine as long as I could have my laptop or a notebook and lots of pens.
ReplyDeleteI've seen those padded cells when I worked at our local hospital. They don't allow pens, pencils, and especially anything that might shock them without permission. lol. Stay sane enough to write, ladies. I plan on it.
ReplyDeleteI love your characters. They are varied and interesting. Hard to come home to reality with fun stuff like that swimming around in your head. Grin!
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ReplyDeleteYou are an amazing writer! The fact that your characters pester you proves it. Do you really want them to quiet down? ... What would you think about? LOL
Sorry, no help with the order of story priorities ~ not my field. (smiles)
I feel the same way about my characters! They're always badgering me to get their story told. But then they help write it, so we're sort of even. Go see my blog too at murph4slaw.blogspot.com
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