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This week: Character Selection Edited by: Gaby  
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Hello, all! I'm Gaby and I'm your editor for this issue of the Mystery Newsletter. It's also good to be back on the site after a bit of a hiatus and to hop on the same newsletter bandwagon you left a few years ago. Sometimes, we all need to recharge. Thanks for having me and reading this.  |
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Character selection for stories and novels comes rather easily to some people. They sit down, put their fingers on the keyboard or grab pen and paper and start typing/writing. The words flow, the characters come alive, the descriptions are perfect. Are you that person? Well, that is wonderful for you, but some of us require getting to know a character before deciding on their future.
As writers we do a lot of people watching. The neighbor across the street who slams his car door shut, you wonder about him, don't you? What is he like? How does he treat his family? His kids? The two dogs they have? Are they all like that? Perhaps they're just loud and grumpy by nature or perhaps there's more to it.
What about the young couple who moved in next door just recently with their daughter? They seem to have it all together and yet, something seems off. Who in their right mind would move onto a property that doesn't have a house on it and still live there? Seems a bit off, right? They talk a lot about money and big numbers, nevertheless you don't see much truth to that. Are they hiding something?
Once you talk to someone or observe them on a regular basis, you can surmise a lot of things. If you take people's behavior, it comes easier to put a face to it. Or does it?
When it comes to my own writing, every story is different. I tend to see a person through their behavior, their every day chores, and that's how I get to see their face clearly. If I'm to work from scratch, imagine my character first before giving them a personality, my story can take me in a direction I don't wish to go.
While much of my writing is rather hidden from view on the site, there are stories there where characters come alive rather quickly but there are also those with characters who mock me because I don't know what to do with them exactly. I have yet to truly meet them in order to point them in the right writing direction.
Some writers do a collage of pictures. Random people or those they see on television and that is how they put their characters together. Their personality is more important but I'm not sure I'd be able to massacre a bunch of random pictures to create a single person. Thinking about creating a character that way makes me feel like I'm someone with an illness that should be locked away, but that's just me and my imagination. It tends to travel down the darkened corridors of my mind rather frequently.
What about you? How do you select the right character for your story?
'til next time!
~ Gaby 
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