Comments on: Creating Credible Characters—Introduction http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/ Thu, 17 May 2012 03:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Starlight Writer http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-16593 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:06:52 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-16593 What a great question! I read way too much to list my favortite characters in books, but my tv and movie time is limited, so I only spend it with Richard Castle from Castle, and Walter Bishop from Fringe, and The Doctor from Doctor Who.

These characters are vivid and funny and very lifelike….I’d love to meet the characters (not the actors) and chat.

Love your blog :)
Maryellen

]]> By: Critical Reading: As You Read (Characters) « KayeDacus.com http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-6323 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:44:04 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-6323 [...] characters as you read. If you need a refresher on what makes characters credible, check out the Creating Credible Characters [...]

]]> By: Cynthia Hickey http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1987 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:45:29 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1987 I love Jaime and Claire from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series. Neither of the characters are perfect, but Jaime is the eiptome of a gentlemen, nevermind he was born over two hundred years ago in Scotland. Claire is wise, abrasive, and smart. Gabaldon brings her characters to true life and their love for each other spans two hundred years.

I also loved Scarlet O’Hara. For the same reasons. She wasn’t perfect, was sometimes mean, and made bad choices.

These are the type of characters I like to read about.

]]> By: » Carnival of Christian Writers #9 June 2007 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1982 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:10:40 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1982 [...] Dacus begins her series on “Creating Credible Characters” with her introductory post on her blog Write Place, Write Time where Kaye teaches the craft [...]

]]> By: CeeCee http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1744 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:31:27 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1744 POV question: Is it advisable to write more than one first person POV in one novel? Thanks

]]> By: Michael http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1737 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:42:39 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1737 From TV:

The Doctor (Dr Who) – Ten actors have played him and the character is still going strong. He’s iconic in the UK and is one of the best realized characters. He is a universal hero, who uses brain rather than brawn to solve most things and has a deep sense of right and wrong tempered with compassion. That said, he’s a person you want as your friend and not your enemy, as many various monsters have found out over the years…he always finds a way to beat them.

Captain Kirk – Heaven help me, I love Kirk. He’s just so all-around awesome. A leader in every sense of the word. These days it’s easy to make him out as more aggressive than he was…he was knew the time and place to use force, but more often than not used a good bluff or the talents of his crew to help him solve a problem. Best captain the Trek shows ever had or will ever have.

Fonzie – Dear heavens, I’m warped for life since this was one of the first male role-models I saw on TV. But he was so great–a confidence, a swagger and just an all around guy. He was the big-brother we all wished we had. Also, he was cool because he used brains over brawn…if you think about it, you rarely saw Fonzie get into a fight…he used his reputation alone. Plus he got all the girls…and that time when Richie was in the hospital and he wasn’t afraid to cry or pray….

]]> By: kndacus http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1736 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:38:59 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1736 Oh, Patricia, great example! I always loved Clair on the Cosby Show . . . and with as funny as Bill Cosby/Dr. Huxtable always was, I did wonder why someone like Clair would have married him. He was just lucky, I guess.

]]> By: PatriciaW http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1734 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:57:42 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1734 Clair Huxtable. Contemporary, educated, well-spoken, cultured, financially comfortable, loved, loving, sexy, creative, smart, compassionate, fashionable — all the things I’d love to be. Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable doesn’t work for me completely so I’d have to pair her with someone else but then she wouldn’t be the same Clair, would she?

I love the men and women in Francis Ray’s Garysons series. Lots of the same characteristics I noted above, both the men and women. Add in strong family ties.

I have yet to fully flesh out one of my own but I’m working on that.

]]> By: Jennifer http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1732 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:27:25 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1732 Favorite Character: I love the characters from my favorite books (too many to list). I love them because they seem so real. They’ve got flaws, good and bad traits, they’re strong…they’re real.

I loved my characters so much from my Abigail books that I made it into a 7 book series because I didn’t want to give them up. I love my other character (from a different idea/novel) Avrina. If I don’t love my characters I can’t write about them. It’s so important to me that they be ‘real’ and that I can feel passionate about them, that I could want to be their friend…

]]> By: Nashville is Talking » Quick Nuggets To Go With Your Morning Coffee http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1726 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:26:13 +0000 http://kayedacus.com/2007/06/12/creating-credible-characters%e2%80%94introduction/#comment-1726 [...] Who are your favorite fictional characters—from books, TV, or film? [...]

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