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Nov 3, 2009 - 05 06 |
This is my first time writing in the Chick Lit genre and I've hit a block. I just can't seem to get a feel for my characters beyond the usual clichés. On another forum I saw people were creating facebooks for theirs so they could interact with each other and develop them a little more, and I was wondering if anyone here had made profiles specifically for their Chick Lit characters or were going to? |
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Nov 5, 2009 - 12 38
I haven't done it personally, but I've toyed with the thought. I also contemplated creating a blog for my character but realized that would be counter-productive to my word count, so if she blogs, she's gonna have to do it within the confines of "nano_book.doc"!
I got stuck last night, and remembered reading a suggestion once that if you're stuck, take whatever last happened in the story and change it to the opposite. So I made the football team win their game instead of losing it, which gave me a whole after party wherein the MC got drunk and had a fight with the MMC, which ended in teh bedroom. That one change increased my count from 6000-something to over 9700. If you're truly stuck, try reversing whatever last happened and see if that helps! At the very least, it's words on teh page, which creating a FB account for your MC isn't ;)
Or, write a scene wehre she creates her own FB account. That's kind of the equivalent of writing her grocery list, but it's words, and it may lead you somewhere -- maybe she finds an old flame while she's adding friends? Conflict!!!!
----------Erin
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Nov 5, 2009 - 16 48
I love this idea because it does double duty - ups the word count while still helping you to get to know your character!
----------ML for US::PA:: Scranton
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Nov 9, 2009 - 07 28
Nice idea!
I like the idea of creating a Facebook account if you were writing a novel with no time limit.
In terms of NaNo I think it could seriously hijack your word count!
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Nov 13, 2009 - 19 45
Whether you did it for real and block-saved what you put up there, or faked it for NaNo, it could be a great way to see how your characters interact. Would she get hooked on Mafia Wars or that farm game? What would she forward? Which Harry Potter character would she marry? (She can't have Fred. He's mine.)
Does someone ask to friend her who may have some old stories on her that she doesn't want shared, maybe with embarrassing photos? Does an old bully write her, either to taunt or asking forgiveness? (Great article on this in a recent More magazine.) Does someone deliberately post something to make her look bad in front of her boss/boyfriend/mother?
You could even use it as a chapter-starting device: Put her latest update at the top of the chapter.