Comments on: My Heroine Hell https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/ Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4216 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:46:47 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4216 Lacey – she IS fabulous. I really like her now. The naughty minx. 🙂

Maisey – sounds like you do kind of the same things as me. I’m certainly finding that the elements I thought were incidental are now turning out to be critical. Yay for pantsing! 😉

]]> By: Maisey https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4215 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:36:29 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4215 Jackie, I love my heroines, and yet they DO give me the most trouble. My heroes usually get hit with the light end of the revision stick while my heroines have been known to be the root of all issues with a MS.

Why? Just why you said. Giving her flaws and depth, a goals and strength and weaknesses, and still keeping her likeable is…HARD.

I start with character motivation and conflict. However, it seems like I start emphasizing elements I didn’t think I would as I write, and as I find ways to tie the hero and heroine’s conflicts togehter. So I plot…ish…enough to get me going…then it changes.

]]> By: Lacey Devlin https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4214 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 06:23:15 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4214 LOL to the “no they are not cartoons” bit 🙂 She sounds fabulous even if she made you work through 39K to get to her.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4213 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:29:30 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4213 Natalie – yes, that’s exactly it! Readers ARE harder on the heroine than they are on the hero. I wonder why that is? A blog post maybe… 😉
Well, interestingly, now that I’ve figured my heroine out, I am coming to love her very much. I know I wouldn’t mind being her right about now…*nudge, nudge* 😉

]]> By: Natalie Anderson https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4212 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:37 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4212 Hugs JAckie – yes, heroines can be so hard! The one that just went thru was my hardest of all – so tricky to try to do something a little different and yet still keep them sympathetic! Think readers can be harder on heroines than they are on heroes… but I’m sure you’ll work it out and have a wonderfully interesting, vibrant, sassy gal we all wish we could be!

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4211 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 06:14:01 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4211 Kerrin – a woman after my own heart. 🙂 Yep, it’s not until I write the whole thing that I figure them out. That rewrite can be difficult huh? Just had to cut 7k – not a happy thought. But glad you like the sound of my heroine. She’s pretty cool…now… 🙂

]]> By: Kerrin https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4209 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:05:26 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4209 very cool heroine! glad to hear you have given her a goal!
Um, i do the background notes thing, conflict, movitation, what they want, what they can’t have etc.
But then i don’t really ‘know’ them until i start writing them. So like you it’ll be dirty draft finished before i have a real handle on them, then i go back and tweak or majorly rewrite.

]]> By: Jackie Ashenden https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4208 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:36:10 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4208 Joanne – I wish I were more organised like that. I’ve tried doing that, I really have, but it just doesn’t work for me. I feel constrained and the characters don’t come to life. Spoken like a true pantser eh? 🙂

Aimee – I’ve got better in that I do have the conflict worked out before I start writing. And a rough outline of their history and thoughts about their character arc. But the details only become apparent when I start writing and sometimes this changes other things. Sigh.
But yeah, I love writing heroes. Men are so much simpler! 🙂

]]> By: Aimee Carson https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4207 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:56:22 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4207 I have to know most of their history and their conflict in order to even get started. Additional tidbits come as I go, and things might get tweaked, but I can’t write a thing without that core conflict.

I’m with you. I find the Hero much easier than the Heroine.

]]> By: Joanne Coles https://www.jackieashenden.com/my-heroine-hell/#comment-4206 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:13:49 +0000 http://jackieashenden.com/?p=345#comment-4206 I’m a planner. Have to plan everything before I start to write otherwise I stall to a halt really quickly 🙁

So character sheets have to be filled in (my own version of these), I have to know their weaknesses and what their character arc will be.

Once I’ve got a rough scene outline, I’m ready to start writing. Wish I was this organised about everything in my life!!

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