'Casting' your novel - Page 5

WriteMinded · 01-20-2013, 09:12 PM

As I write, a picture grows. Sometimes I come to visualize someone I know or an actor. Colin Farell with blue eyes for my (so far) favorite MC, Liam Neeson in a later book. However, I don't build my character accordingly. It works the other way around.

The men are always clear to me, the women not so much.

cmi0616 · 01-20-2013, 09:35 PM

I don't usually do it, but I knew I wanted to write a book with a hippie character in it after watching Goats with David Duchovny.

Becky Black · 01-21-2013, 01:33 PM

I rarely do it, but must admit that one of the main characters in my most recent draft just happens to look exactly like an actor named Tyler Hoechlin.

TheWordsmith · 01-22-2013, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Sieglinde

I do that a lot. My current WIP's two leads look like David Tennant and Misha Collins.

Well, yeh. I could cast them in anything ... well, maybe not cement! But, I couldn't use them as characters in my work. Too limiting. But I do like your train of thought!

heza · 01-23-2013, 12:03 AM

The only novel I've "cast" anyone in I cast with real people. Not people I know, just people I've seen: a motorcyclist getting pulled over by a cop in the parking lot of my gym; the kid who works the drive-thru at the chicken place I like.... that kind of thing.

01-20-2013, 09:35 PM	#102
cmi0616 practical experience, FTW Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: With you in Rockland Posts: 1,143	I don't usually do it, but I knew I wanted to write a book with a hippie character in it after watching Goats with David Duchovny. __________________ "Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live."- Charles Bukowski Goodreads- let's be friends!

01-21-2013, 01:33 PM	#103
Becky Black Making up for lost time Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Posts: 1,306	I rarely do it, but must admit that one of the main characters in my most recent draft just happens to look exactly like an actor named Tyler Hoechlin. __________________ Writer of m/m romance. My novels are available from Loose Id. See more details in my Absolute Write Library thread.

01-23-2013, 12:03 AM	#105
heza New kid, but determined! Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 1,316	The only novel I've "cast" anyone in I cast with real people. Not people I know, just people I've seen: a motorcyclist getting pulled over by a cop in the parking lot of my gym; the kid who works the drive-thru at the chicken place I like.... that kind of thing. __________________ WIPs Untitled <-- Supernatural MG (drafting) Tobias Tinker <-- Clockpunk MG (on hold) Freak Town <-- Paranormal YA (on hold) Huntington House <-- Paranormal YA (on hold)

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01-20-2013, 09:12 PM	#101
WriteMinded Derailed Join Date: May 2010 Location: Above Paradise in California Posts: 1,996	As I write, a picture grows. Sometimes I come to visualize someone I know or an actor. Colin Farell with blue eyes for my (so far) favorite MC, Liam Neeson in a later book. However, I don't build my character accordingly. It works the other way around. The men are always clear to me, the women not so much.