Comments on: Hey–TV Is My Process

By: Yoga

Yoga — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:08:53 +0000

This advice is really going to help, thanks.

By: kh

kh — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:51:19 +0000

wtg selena

By: Chris Marie Green

Chris Marie Green — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:13:45 +0000

: ), kh.

Okay, it’s time to announce the winner of the book!

Selena, you’re it!

Thank you all so much, and I hope your holidays are wonderful.

By: kh

kh — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:59:31 +0000

thati is good with the pics in magazine, people watching is fun

By: Chris Marie Green

Chris Marie Green — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:54:29 +0000

LOL, Lori! I’ll just say that’s it over 20 hours a week….

Selena (Hey!) and Pati–I used to do a lot of catalog cutouts to create characters. Sort of like paper dolls but I couldn’t change their clothing, LOL. It really is a good idea-generator.

By: Pati Nagle

Pati Nagle — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:28:48 +0000

Selena – I use catalogs and magazines to find “wardrobe” for my characters, too. Also I will sometimes cut out a picture just because it’s interesting, and later use it in a collage.

By: Selena Illyria

Selena Illyria — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:35:04 +0000

Catalog shopping or rather page shopping. Just flipping through a catalog or look at a website of clothing can give me an idea of a character’s wardrobe choices and their personality. If it’s not clothing its furniture.

Sometimes building their external world i.e. clothing, furniture and vehicle choice can help tell me who they are as a person. Even listening to music can tell me their emotional state of mind. Watching movies can be good because the atmosphere of said movie could help create something similar in the book you are writing. All these little things are great tools to me.

By: Chris Marie Green

Chris Marie Green — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:35:26 +0000

Hey, all! Great to see you, kh and domynoe, and Pati–that’s interesting about “people watching” during online poker. (I forbid myself from trying it though, because I know I’d get sucked right in, LOL.) I keep telling myself that I’m going to take a day off sometime to go to Disneyland, sit on a bench near Main Street, and do some people watching. Of course, I’d need to bring a big old notepad with me….

By: Pati Nagle

Pati Nagle — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:35:53 +0000

Chris –

I use online poker (free games – I don’t play for money) as down-time. Something about engaging the analytical part of the mind allows the creative part to wander and pick flowers and come up with ideas. There are also “sparks” around – things that make me think “what if…” – such as the creative handles other players choose and their chat during the game. Since I’m a people-watcher, it’s a convenient people-watching forum.

By: Lori Devoti

Lori Devoti — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:45:31 +0000

I challenge you to a “too much TV” duel! You can’t watch more than me. I get ideas from TV–especially reality TV, or maybe it is more characterization. But it definitely is part of the process somewhere.
Other weird things I do to help the process is free cell or Mahjong on WebKinz. There is something about working through a puzzle that helps get my brain back to work on the book.
Lori