I have written how letting characters perform true to their nature (Stepping Forward. Characters that take over) helps me with consistency and allows me to get some surprises out of the books I write, too.
What enables them to perform this way for me is that I take the time to get to know them. It’s all about what they do, what they want and all the little things that make them tick. Character traits pop up out of them and I use them. Anything that flows from them gets grabbed up and used.
Letting characters perform helps me in other ways, too. Sometimes even before I get to know them.
Here’s a great example, although it doesn’t feature in any book. This was an exercise I ran simply to find out which direction to send this pair.
They are Khekarian Royalty. The girl is six. Her half-brother is fifteen. The story for them both was still forming, yet I could write nothing without understand at least how they felt about each other. I knew there was some animosity between them, but not its nature.
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