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Okay gang, here’s something fun to do. At least I enjoy thinking about this.
Which of YOUR characters are you most like?
Sometimes this character is the one I like writing about most, because I can relate to their reactions, sense of humor, likes and dislikes. But sometimes this is the hardest character for me to write about because when tough circumstances come thier way and I write the scene so that they respond wrongly to the situation, then it makes me gulp because I can totally see how I’ve made the same mistake. (who knew that my own characters could convict me so much!)
So which of your characters are you most like? (I’m still trying to decide 🙂 unfortunately for my characters, many of them are a lot like me)
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Anna West, definitely. Mainly because I’ve based her (in part) of imaginings of myself in various situations. She’s an 18 year old girl in America 200 years in the future, and she is a Christian who works in the underground and, later on, in the rebellion.
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In the novel I’m working on, For Unknown Reasons, I find myself relating with the main character. Venice Klatbore is an eighteen year old girl (With curly blonde hair and brown eyes. Hmm…she even looks like me…) whose father is the ruler of their desperate nation. Set years into the future, this novel takes a dystopian look at a teenager who is faced with a series of questions that she /must/ answer.
Venice is witty and sarcastic (…not like me at /all/). Her roots run deep and she values her family more than any other earthly thing. She’d (probably) give up her life for her family if it came to that. (don’t know how I feel about voluntary death, but I’d more than likely sacrifice myself for the ones I love. Just make it quick and don’t use a sword.) She denies the things happening around her in order to keep her innocence (sometimes the reality of things is scary and it’s better to deny that you have to decide where you want to go to college than actually start looking at colleges). And she loves food, especially fine delicacies (anything that involves dark chocolate and pudding is basically a yes for me). And, some people may think that she’s being flirtatious, but honestly she just likes to have sarcastic conversations with male figures.
So, yeah. There’s that wordy paragraph.
My method is putting a bit of myself in pretty much all of my characters. There’s one who looks like me, one who talks like me, one who has some of my habits or expressions… it varies.
Jean and Cobalt are a sort of split of how I act in different situations.Oh, that is so hard. I really can’t pick a top one, but there are a few I am most like. Actually, there are a some that I’m not very much like at all. That kinda surprises me. The ones I’m most like though would be:
1. My MC, Edwin Brook. What he has gone through and his responses makes him different from me in many ways, but I the way he acts is very similar to how I would act if I were him. He represents me fairly well on my serious side.
2. Rameaux. One of my favorite characters since I started writing him, he is light hearted, but he is not a goof off. His version of fun is unique is mainly expressed through action along with speech rather than just speech and his general good nature. This good nature combined with his occupation as a bandit make him most peculiar. I don’t think my version of fun is exactly the same, but it is close enough that I feel a connection.
3. My scholar guy. I haven’t actually written him yet, but I have a good conception of him and I think there are many similarities. I like scholarly stuff myself and the research this character brings into the story is my own research plus conjecture and plays a major role in the plot.
4. Extor, a former investigator turned gentleman farmer. He shows a lot of my character along with my agrarian tendencies even though he only appears in the beginning and end of the book for short periods of time.
5. The son of my MCs archenemy turned actually archenemy. I haven’t written him at all yet, but I think there are some similarities.Then of course there are the numerous side characters. Really, there is no one to show my goofy side, but that’s good because my story is a serious story and that would ruin the feel.
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Ooh… that’s quite a question!
I don’t think I can answer that with just one character— I pour a varied amount of myself into every one of mine, pretty much. But a lot of my sarcastic characters bear many similarities to my personality, because I can be ridiculously sarcastic and witty in an odd, wacky, irrelevant sort of way. 😛 I also tend to relate more to those of my characters who are timid when it comes to physical dangers, (though I don’t have many of those characters) because I’m afraid of height, water, enclosed spaces, and fire.
I can also be extremely emotional… and that spills over into some of my lady characters as well…
But really there isn’t one character I could choose. I think all of them are based off me in some way, in some mood, in some sense… 🙂
Like I’ll take one of my own traits and exaggerate it to make it a personality.Nice question! I think the character who is most like me is the main character of my trilogy, Callie Nickly. There are a lot of things similar about us, mostly physical appearance and problem-solving strategies. In fact, Callie has been an extremely difficult character to write about because she has forced me to learn about myself! (That sounds really weird, I know, but writers are supposed to be weird.) 😉
@ivy-rose how does she problem solve? I’m interested.
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@Daeus In the beginning of the trilogy, Callie (age 14) problem solves in a speedy, impulsive way. She tends to act first, think later, but then seriously second-guess herself (even if she did the right thing) and think through every possible variation and how it would have “been better” if she had said something else or said it differently. As the story progresses and Callie gets older, she gets much better at processing before acting/responding and learns to stop beating herself up for responding in a way that she later realizes (as she mulls it over) wasn’t the perfect response. She learns that though it might not have been the perfect response (or action), it wasn’t a ‘wrong’ one. This all feeds off of one of Callie’s biggest fears that she struggles with for most of the trilogy; worrying about what other people think of her.
As strange as this sounds, Callie and I have kinda grown up together. I started writing about her when we were both thirteen. (The story started out as what would be a 5 page short-story, but it grew far larger than I could have ever imagined. And now, Callie and I are in our 4th year of working together.) 😉 She’s like the sister I’ve never had…enough like me to drive me absolutely crazy, but also has enough of her own personality to make her mysterious.
So there you go! That was a really long answer to a short question. Sorry!
You know what, that’s funny. I have a similar personality to that myself. I’m not that impulsive, but I always replay things to myself and see how I could do them better. The thing is, I seem to have moved more to replaying things that have never yet happened to me nowadays.
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Ooo very neat answers! I suppose I should answer my own question though…. tehehe 🙂
Like some of you it’s hard to narrow down because to some extent, Rolena is behind each of my character’s thoughts and reactions, but if I were to choose just one, I would say my most recent protagonist Katty Henning.
She has close ties to her family, has a very vivid imagination, is full of questions and loves to find answers, is very devoted to the task at hand (though she’s rather good at complaining) has a quiet manner unless around her family and likes to think up snarky replies, whether they come out or not.
She carries her self in the way I do, has a similar thinking style and mannerisms. I’ve really enjoyed writing about her and it cracks me up when I realize that she just did something I’ve totally done before!https://rolenahatfield.com/
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