tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post9222682025914647315..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Identifying with our characters. And sometimes not. By Jo CarrollKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-86521594827368057862015-02-25T14:12:38.343+00:002015-02-25T14:12:38.343+00:00that's the brilliant (or one of the brilliant)...that's the brilliant (or one of the brilliant) things about writing, isn't it? Spreading wings you neverknew you had, through your characters. Super post.Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-68161311815160316712015-02-24T18:13:16.219+00:002015-02-24T18:13:16.219+00:00Thank you all - I can see why crime writers draw t...Thank you all - I can see why crime writers draw the line at murder! And I have done scary things by accident (a memorable encounter with a tiger springs to mind) do can draw on that. But some of my characters are far more intrepid than I am - or maybe they are how I'd like to be!JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-32214851398890373782015-02-24T12:49:48.458+00:002015-02-24T12:49:48.458+00:00yes I can only think of one crime writer who has c...yes I can only think of one crime writer who has committed murder... we can't all be expected to do it! however, your exciting travels, Jo, can obviously feed into your fiction to make it vivid and believable - whether you gloss over the problems of queues etc to move the plot along, or use the holdups and snags to create tension or set up encounters. And you can as all of us can, claim it as a business expense!Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-32862908136451850332015-02-24T11:05:57.170+00:002015-02-24T11:05:57.170+00:00Fascinating post and certainly food for thought. I...Fascinating post and certainly food for thought. Identifying too heavily with some of my characters could have a few adverse effects. As writer of crime novels I think I will leave killing people to the pages of my books. However, it made me wonder if there is more I can do to identify with some of the other characters to understand them more clearly. Wendy H. Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04022089775887274043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-1359765311476441742015-02-24T10:56:17.478+00:002015-02-24T10:56:17.478+00:00An intriguing question: should writers do their ow...An intriguing question: should writers do their own stunts? <br /><br />I know that some writers think so - Michelle Paver, for instance, won't write about any aspect of Stone Age life unless she's sharpened a flint or skinned a bison or lit a fire with dried yak bones at first hand.<br /><br />Me, I'm more of the Lawrence Olivier school of thought. As he said to Dustin Hoffman, who ran up a flight of stairs in order to get suitably out of breath for a scene in Marathon Man, 'Have you ever tried acting, dear boy?'Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08191176209084540085noreply@blogger.com