Re: A new AR anecdote?


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Posted by John Lambert on July 08, 2006 at 20:06:22 from 24.80.117.76 user John.

In Reply to: Re: A new AR anecdote? posted by PeterH on July 08, 2006 at 19:49:41:

Most fiction writers create characters partly from real life, partly from their own imaginatios, as you say, Peter, but also from a combination of real people. They take certain character traits from one person, add an incident or two from someone else's life and throw in a few comments from somebody else. They ferment in the writer's brain for a while and out comes a character to fit the plot of the novel. But wait! Sometimes the character takes over. He says, "No, I don't want to do that." "I would never say that." That's not me at all." I don't know if this is a good thing or not. Should a writer let some of his characters take over? Did this happen to AR? I sometimes think that female characters are easier for a male writer to "create". Maybe this is why Titty has a specail appeal - at least for me - she is the one person AR seems really to have made an effort to understand. Her stint as caretaker on the island in SA and the wax effigy incident in SW immediately come to mind. Although he certainly lets us enter into his other characters' minds, it is Titty who appears to have been his favourite. I know she was based on a real girl, but who knows what changes she went through in the fertile imagination of AR. This topic would be fruitful ground for a major psychological study and lie far outside the scope of this site.


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