I'm not insane, I'm a writer
Oct. 22nd, 2008 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pbrayWriters come in a wide variety of personality types, but at our core we're not quite like everyone else. We are creators. And sometimes the worlds we create are so powerful that they supersede the ordinary reality that others enjoy.
Take this morning for instance--as I was walking through the parking lot I was surprised by a 2009 Subaru Forester. "Oh, no," I thought to myself, "That's clearly not the kind of car John would drive. He must have bought one of the older models."
In mind mind, not only is my character John real, but the car he drives is very real. And it clearly isn't one of the prettied up new models. Fortunately I also know that John is frugal, so he would have bought a used car rather than new. Phew! One problem solved, at least for now.
Take this morning for instance--as I was walking through the parking lot I was surprised by a 2009 Subaru Forester. "Oh, no," I thought to myself, "That's clearly not the kind of car John would drive. He must have bought one of the older models."
In mind mind, not only is my character John real, but the car he drives is very real. And it clearly isn't one of the prettied up new models. Fortunately I also know that John is frugal, so he would have bought a used car rather than new. Phew! One problem solved, at least for now.
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Date: 2008-10-23 04:41 am (UTC)Sometimes while watching the news, I find myself noting what character would find interest in what story, their reaction to it, or what they would completely ignore. What would get a rise out of them.
A relatively new character has a masquerade ball to go to Halloween night, so I was online looking at pictures of costumes, ballrooms, and all things harlequin and Venetian, and everything was grand and beautiful, but it felt wrong and I said to myself, "She wouldn't wear this. She's not Asian, but her strong attraction to Asian things is all over her apartment! She would go for the ancient Chinese empress look, all golden, chrysanthemum festival and crouching tiger." Which works out great, as she's a rebel who enjoys sticking it to her husband though there's usually hell to pay. So. For this party, she's going off-theme.
I'm feeling ya, bray.
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Date: 2008-10-23 03:10 pm (UTC)I haven't quite reached the stage where I've spotted one of my characters in a crowd, but I'm sure it wil happen some day.
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Date: 2008-10-23 06:02 pm (UTC)I might have considered it, if I weren't much too shy to even consider asking a stranger such a question. I might also in that case have considered asking him if he had ever tried to turn himself into an owl. (Also, this is Toronto, where if you talk to strangers on the bus, except perhaps to ask if you know what time it is, they tend to start edging warily away from you.) I just stared at him a lot while trying to look as if I weren't...
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Date: 2008-10-23 01:21 pm (UTC)Patriciamus Prime has a nice ring to it...
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Date: 2008-10-23 11:38 pm (UTC)exactly... ;-)