"I need drama..."

"A novelist and her main character"

"Listen to your characters"

Have you read As Winter Came and Went? No? That's a pity... You'd be able to understand more precisely what I mean with this cartoon!

"If it was that easy"

Another repost, because I'm lazy, because several of the new cartoons I've created will be just for the book, and because I'm hoping that I've got heaps of new followers since I first posted this one, who will not have seen it already!

"The scene I had in mind..."

This is, alas, a true story... That particular scene was meant to be intense and romantic... And it was ruined by a single typo...

What surprises me is that only one beta reader actually noticed it (thank you so much for having pointed it out, by the way!). I hope that the others did not see it because they were entranced by the plot and the emotions and such, not because they were so fed up that they just skipped this scene!

Still, I'm still feeling quite ashamed of myself, especially since I sent out ARC copies to reviewers containing this typo (*gasp*)! I noticed it yesterday, so it was just in time for Halloween (and I was duly horrified)...

"Why should I be just a horse?"

Should I say what happened next? No. You'll know what happened if you read the novel when I publish it!

"I should have a compensation"

 

"If it was that easy"

 

According to some writers, their characters appear to them, fully formed, ready to tell their stories and come to life on the page. I'm afraid it's not the case for me... Sometimes I think being a writer would be much easier if it happened that way! 

"I need drama"

 

Aren't writers cruel? When I think of all the sorrow and tragedies some of us (including me!) make our characters go through... We delight in pushing them to their limits and in putting obstacles in their paths. And readers are no better, for don't they enjoy reading about all these difficulties? 

"When were you written?"

"The special and wonderful relationship between a novelist and her main character" Part 2

Can other writers relate? As I mentioned in my post Introducing my novel, Dennys was meant to be only a secondary character... Yet little by little he took over the story, and the result... You'll see if you read my book (yes, I'm shamelessly trying to make you want to buy it once it is published)!

"The special and wonderful relationship between a novelist and her main character"

Now, I really like Dennys, the main character of As Winter Came and Went, even if he is, in more ways than one, something of an antihero. But I'm sure that if he could spring out of my laptop like a genie out of a lamp, this would be the sort of conversation we would have... Can fellow-writers relate?