#WordWeavers 28/2: Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

Yes, except for the villains, and no, absolutely not. I made enough bad things happen they'd be well within their rights to make "God is dead" happen with their own hands.

#WordWeavers Feb 28
Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

I think Sujay would be the best hang, though not after she becomes Maya. The only ones I'd tell I was the author would be the Curtises so we could muahahahah together.

#WordWeavers Feb 28
Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

🤣 A good portion of my characters could squash me like a bug. Most of them are highly moral people though. I could probably elicit sympathy telling what my world was like. Maybe they'd welcome me to stay. 😀

#WordWeavers Feb 28: Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

I wouldn't mind meeting some of them -- I like to write protagonists who are good people! -- but, uh, no way I'm telling them I'm the author. I put them through a lot.

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#WordWeavers 2/28 - Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

I'd like to meet them, but telling them who I was would be more of an existential crisis than either one could handle. Ethan would be more approachable--he's used to strangers coming up to say hello--but Christophina might be harder to talk to.

#WordWeavers 30. Do you write scenes out of order? If so, how do you decide their arrangement?

i have tried writing scenes out of order, but i find disguising the seams between different sections takes more work than simply writing from beginning to end. so i write mostly in order now.

provisional notes, on the other hand, can be written in any order. i had my ending planned before many of the middle sections, for instance. but many details needed to be changed, in order to fit with everything that came before.

#WordWeavers answering 2/29. What is your greatest fear about your characters?

This may sound really weird, but:

That after I publish nobody will read my books, so my characters will essentially die.

They're just so vibrant and alive in my own head! They're very real to me.

But once I hit 'Publish' they're not only mine. They need to be read by others to continue to exist. They need other heads to live in.

If no one reads my books, what happens to them? I still have them, but is it enough?

#WordWeavers Feb 28. Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

No, not really. I'm happy for them to live in my head. If I ever did meet one, I definitely wouldn't tell them who I am.

30. Do you write scenes out of order? If so, how do you decide their arrangement?

Almost never. I have some scenes I want to write later, like the end, or some fight, or love scene, in my head, but they have to remain there until their time has come.

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#WordWeavers 28Feb—Would you like to meet any of your characters? Would you tell them who you are?

I know my characters already, have created them and encountered them on the computer screen day after day.

They and I live in different realities. The gap cannot be bridged by "telling them who I am." It doesn't work that way.