are part of the story as a viewer. I start writing my main characters on
separate ‘character files’ for them. I write down birthday, height, weight,
education, where they live, family members, what they like to eat, who they
don’t like, how they were raised, and I keep going until I have constructed a
real person. It is critical for the character to be real to my
readers. If the reader can’t identify with or connect to the character they are
reading there is little chance they will read the book or buy it.
The same thing goes for locations. If you can visit where you are writing
about, that’s the best. Locations that you can’t visit means some research by
watching TV about a place or using the internet in Wikipedia may give enough
information about a location to use it. How accurate is the documentary you are
using? Try to get as good a feel for any place as possible. Keep your research
up until your story locations are well rounded like your characters.
I love using my imagination. For those of you who read my book you know I
constructed it to a modern day age. Along with this came an idea of the enter
working of a vampire government or hierarchy like a type of subculture. If you
should be writing about modern vampires you had better know or have access to
someone knowledgeable about this in the world today. It doesn’t matter what
subject, you had better educate yourself on your subject or it will sound
foolish or false.
So, I research and develop my story from information I had heard of or found
in my research of the story line in modern days.
Use this as an exercise in searching out your writing environment and make it
real to the reader – write that down.
See ya in the funnies my noble reading buddies.