{"id":215,"date":"2012-08-11T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/08\/11\/sas-game-on-blog-tour-by-kyra-lennon\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T07:26:00","slug":"sas-game-on-blog-tour-by-kyra-lennon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/08\/11\/sas-game-on-blog-tour-by-kyra-lennon\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS: “Game On” Blog Tour, by Kyra Lennon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Share A Saturday” is a weekly chance for you, yes YOU, to come on my blog and talk about whatever you want, so long as it’s related to writing\/books. For more information, such as if you’d like to “share a Saturday” with me, please see below!<\/i><\/p>\n

Kyra Lennon was born on the South coast of England, and to this day, still lives by the sea. Fiction writing has always been her passion, but she also has numerous articles on a variety of topics published on prolific websites. <\/i><\/p>\n

Blog: http:\/\/kyralennon.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

When I first started writing Game On, the only characters I had in mind were Leah and Radleigh. Being a complete pantser, I had the loosest plotline imaginable and learned more about where the story was going, and where the characters were going, during the writing process.<\/p>\n

What surprised me the most when I was writing, most especially about Leah, was just how much depth she has. On the surface, she\u2019s a British girl living in America, doing a job she loves. That\u2019s it, that\u2019s all there is to see at first glance. But dig just a little deeper, and you\u2019ll find a wealth of baggage and self-inflicted pain that she has been carrying around for far too long. Part of her journey in Game On is trying to figure out if she can \u201cunpack\u201d it, or if she\u2019s destined to carry it around forever.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019re probably a writer too, so you will already know just how important it is to give your characters depth. But this doesn\u2019t just apply to the main characters. Think about the ones around your MCs. Do you really know who they are? Think about how J.K Rowling wrote her characters. She knew everything about every single one of them. I\u2019m pretty sure if you asked her Harry Potter\u2019s grandmother\u2019s shoe size, she\u2019d know the answer! Of course, you don\u2019t need to know quite that much, but you should at least know some of their background. The minor players in your own lives have their own pasts, and those things affect the way they interact with you. The same is true for the characters you write, at least it should be if you want people to believe in them.<\/p>\n

I can honestly say, I have never had more than one trait or \u201cthing\u201d planned for any character I\u2019ve ever written when I first begin a new story. It sounds like a very sloppy way to approach writing, but it hasn\u2019t ever really failed me. These people pop up in my head, and with one very basic idea as a starting point, they guide me through the rest of the story. They tell me what to do, who they are, where they\u2019ve been and where they\u2019re going. Quite often, they give me this information when I\u2019ve had a different idea, but in spite of my efforts, they usually win and they are always right!<\/p>\n

What I\u2019d like to know is, how do YOU approach the creation of new characters. Do you really flesh them out before you begin writing, or do you let them guide you?<\/p>\n

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If you’d like to participate in a Share a Saturday, feel free to contact me at my email, hildred @ gmail.com (no spaces) or through any of the other ways to get a hold of me through my Contact page.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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