I have gone on the internet and used the faces of strangers for some of my characters. This might be cheating but at least I can picture them a bit more clearly. It is working as a starting point anyway. I though this was a cunning plan instead of basing them on people I know.
My villian was too obvious, he wasn't twisting his waxed moustache but it was close to that. I don't want more of a rounded character. So I've modelled him on Steven Merchant. Now I like him too much, I'm not sure he's scary at all. Oh dear. Steven Merchant why do you have to be so likeable?
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You steal faces from the internet, I steal names from graveyards.
ReplyDeleteReal-people names from gravestones seem much more plausable and interesting than made-up ones. Here's a few of my favourites:
John Shadrach Slinger; Alice Maude Wolfall; Charles Purdon Silly; Rimmon Clayton; Dolly Salliss; Oliver Speddy; Harold Muckalt; Bindloss Smith; Nellie Bell; Peregrine John Smart; Ninian Smart; Isabella Row; Jane Bailie. And some nice alliteration: Alice Arkle; Ernest Ellershaw; Clara Ann Airey; Henry Homer; Herbert and Harriet Hall and Maria Marriott.
Would you be able to base your baddy on a bully or suchsuch from school? Extract some revernge?
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You've had me reading gravestones now. You're right, you've got some corkers there. This is the way forward!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of basing your characters on someone you don't like and getting your revenge. I haven't tried that before. This could be great fun.