Main characters reflecting the author

I do not know how many do it. I some cases it would be hard to. And truly what does Harry Potter have in common with his author? It could be the sense of right and wrong, the stubbornness, a love for white owls or may nothing at all.

   I tend to do it. Not copy my person into my main character, but give the person some trades that I have or just wish I had. Tara loves knives just as much as I do. Vanessa is shaped like me physically and has the courage I always wished for. Luka is a loner like I so often am. I have an unnamed character in a short story that loves wolf the way I do.

   I believe that I put in trades that I know from myself to make the person more real. A main character must have good and bad sides to them to be real to the audience. In my opinion writers base everything on stuff they have seen, read, heard or experienced. That is properly also why so many writers are still reading, listening and in our time watching stories unfold.

   I have no way of tell the world who it is to stand face to face with the fear of spiders or heights or claustrophobia, because I encounter my fear everyday. I am afraid of humans. It is odd I know, but I like a clean fifty-centimeter bubble when I am out in the world. I get uncomfortable when strangers talk to me. I know as a writer one must be able to create mostly any character and I do, just not for the main character. The extras can have all the phobias I can think of, because I have seen them in other people, but I have no idea how it is to meet a fear once in a while, having it creep up on you. This is why none of my main characters have fear of snakes, birds, stairs or other things like that. I can do death, loneliness, any social phobia and maybe even love.

   Characters are like soap bubbles. You blow then very carefully but once they leave you they do as they please. Some stay some float away to burst – so actually comes back.

Picking the style

I got an idea last night when I had gone to bed (at 4 am local time) - it almost ruined my sleep.

   I have been doing some research today and some of the groundwork. I am still trying to pick the format to tell the story in. I would like to try doing a journal/dairy/blog-form, but I do not like the limitations.

   Maybe it is because I watch so many movies and tv-series, but I like to make conversations. Talking is the way we get most information these days - when it is not from reading. Having only one perspective to tell from is to me a challenge, but a fun one. I mostly write in third person. It gives a nice freedom to move perspective and be all-knowing.

   Tamora Pierce's new series about Beka Cooper is the best journal formed books I have read. I have my doubts that I can do as well with the style.

   I have read books like Starbrow and Twilight and seen how one can write a great story from the 'I'-perspective, but I am not sure that I can do this story in that form. I have been thinking if it is possible to mix. I have never seen it done, but maybe it is possible.

   There is still some ground to cover with the characters, the layout of the location, society structure and such. That will by me some time.

   I will put on a movie or three and begin on the maps.

Beginning

Beginnings are hard!

Or are they? I have a lot of beginnings in my folder and a few endings stored in my head. I find the middle part hard. Getting from the beginning till the end.

When reading I do believe beginnings are hard. Sometimes it is worth working through them - but I have had to give up once or maybe twice.

This is my beginning on a blog that (hopefully) will help keep at my writing and not be distracted to easily. The distractions are many and various. I love any great story - I do not discriminate against format. Movies, books, tv-series, comics, plays, music, pictures... So there is a lot to distract me. I hope it will help to air out any frustrations I might encounter.

I do not share my ideas on storylines and plots. Most of my writing is in Danish anyway so there will not be many quotes and stuff like that.

It is time to get started!