Hot Sunday!

[erastes]

Going to be the hottest day of the year so far today, they say, so there’s no way we’ll be going out for lunch. Dad and I won’t die for having a few Sundays at home, but it’s too hot to leave Aslan in the car. I’ll pick up some food on the way over there and we’ll have a nice steak and salad (with Jersey Royals!!!!) in the garden which will be fabulous. It will give Dad something to do, anyway, digging out the parasols. I’ll have to suffer the hayfever which is already making me sneeze like a mad thing. must get some more local honey later.

Dad’s (or rather, Mother’s, as she designed it) garden is so beautiful that I’m going to to take some pictures this afternoon. I’ve got lots of photos on my phone I keep trying to email to myself so I can share them with you all, but they never arrive at my email address. I think the only thing I can do is to email to my other phone and then use the link that orange gives to post them. Grr. I have no luck with phones at all.

I often see other authors sharing character sketches and the like from their WIPs – is that anything that you guys would be at all interested in? It’s not something I’d ever thought of doing, seeing as how an unsold WIP will be at least a year coming into print – more if it’s not even finished (and maybe never in the case of Junction X) but if you are, I can share some details from Mere Mortals – not too many, as it is supposed to be a mystery, but I show pictures of the house where they are living, and explain a bit about the three boys concerned. I suppose I haven’t done before now because I didn’t know them myself. 

I’m not the sort of author who knows their characters inside out when they start the book, they are generally a blank slate and as the words start flowing I find out about them – I like this approach because it means I find out about them at exactly the same pace as the reader.

I’m planning to stop mirroring these blog posts to my Erastes Blogspot, as I don’t think anyone reads it there. If there is anyone who does, can you comment on this, and I’ll keep posting. I’ve giving up entirely on my MySpace as I have exactly one reader there, and I know she reads my posts elsewhere.

Ok – off I go – have a great day, whatever you are up to.

Comments

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I’m not the sort of author who knows their characters inside out when they start the book, they are generally a blank slate and as the words start flowing I find out about them

I'm pretty much the same way. [nod] I'll often go back and do some rewriting toward the beginning once I've figured out what-all is going on with the main characters, if I need to plant some info earlier on, but I've never been able to fully flesh out my characters before I start writing. All the questionnaires and interviews and whatever all else have never worked for me; until I start actually writing the story, the characters just aren't, and any choices I made for or about them would be random.

Angie

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I've tried the questionnaire aspect as well, and it simply doesn't work for me, my pov is that you don't learn about any character all in once like snow falling off a roof, so it makes sense to show who and what they are in layers.

Nod nod.

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

I would love to read whatever you might feel like posting and am positively frothing at the idea of seeing where the boys live - I'm horribly visual. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well I may do it just for you...

:)

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

I want to see the house...and where they went on the boat to get to the house...and all that sort of thing... :)

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the pics of the garden.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

If you can't mail the pics to yourself and want to try mailing them elsewhere, you can send 'em to me and I'll forward them to you. But why wouldn't it send to your own email addy??

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I can't send them to any email address - don't know why...

:(