Comments on: How readers see a character https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24753 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:51:00 +0000 #comment-24753 That’s what I don’t understand either.. what is it that makes women make fools of themselves over men ?

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24752 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:34:00 +0000 #comment-24752 Kanani – another odd thing I found out – just like real life, I suppose, was this: the reason one person wanted to strangle Ligea was the very reason that most people liked her. She’s a hard woman in the beginning, then makes an utter fool of herself over a man (Yeah, well, which one of us hasn’t been there, eh?). This particular reader felt she had let the side down…

]]> By: Kanani https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24751 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:54:00 +0000 #comment-24751 Nice insights, Glenda. And incredibly healthy, too.
I suppose that a well-fleshed character is like a person. Not everyone will like it, responses from strangulation to adoration means that you’ve got a character who has a range of human emotions!

Characters evolve. When I first started with mine, she was really flat. At some point… can’t remember when… I understood the growth curve that she had to have. From point A to point B. And everything that happened had to influence her own evolution. It’s been a challenge, and there are times when I want to shelve the whole thing.

But I know I can’t.
Yours in the 2nd draft,
-K

]]> By: bibliobibuli https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24750 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:14:00 +0000 #comment-24750 this is great! i agree, i enjoy wanting to strangle characters!

i blogged about an argument i had with paul bailey about one of his characters here

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24749 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:23:00 +0000 #comment-24749 My daughter went berserk with the camera, Anghara! I have something like 20 shots I could use now …

And I would love to meet Harlan Ellison. Is it really possible to be as awful as he seems?

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24748 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:27:00 +0000 #comment-24748 Glenda, do you realise you have posted no less than TWO absolutely perfect photos in the last two posts – perfect for the purpose of publicity, the same reason you were chasing portraits a while back? That one with you sitting there with a laptop by the ocean, that one’s a beaut. Keep these, in case someone else wants pictures of you!

And I thought Ligea had strangleable moments, but those were precisely what made her a “real” character for me rather than something I found “in a book”. In real life, there are precious few human beings whom you don’t want to strangle at SOME time.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/09/how-readers-see-character/#comment-24747 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:16:00 +0000 #comment-24747 Oh no! Does that mean my characters are cardboard??? *ggg*

That was an odd one. I love Ligea, I think she’s hugely sympathetic and doesn’t prompt any urges towards violence.

Unlike Harlan Ellison, who has become a character in a very bad soap opera which needs to be cancelled sooner rather than later. Sigh.

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