Now I'm on Page 157, writing my novel, The Prince of Newport, and I realize that I wasn’t taking my characters seriously enough. My protagonist Link thinks the antagonist, Walker Lang, killed his friend Jeannie, whom he loved.
I was forgetting that and allowing Link to joke around with Walker, not to put him at ease, but just because I forgot his anger and fear and suspicion. I got to thinking that the character feels the same way I do. I could learn something from the pop-fiction writers in this regard. Their characters are usually very consistent.
When the character is angry, he needs to stay angry, I think, until something happens that changes his state of mind.
BTW, this novel is going fairly well, although my eyes get tired staring at the monitor all the time.
-- Roger
© Copyright 2011, Roger R. Angle
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