But I take that to an entirely different level. With all of
my books set in the Louisiana bayous, I draw from my experience living there to
create realistic settings and characters, which can lead to a lot of questions.
Like “do you really know those people you write about?”
Sure, I know them all. In my mind. Well, except for the
drunken Father Thomas in UNLUCKY. I used to golf with him when I was a
teenager, but that’s a whole other story.
When I’m writing and especially when I go back to read a
rough draft, I always think “these are people I’d like to see in action.” Mind
you, I’m fairly positive I wouldn’t want to be “in” most of the action, but if
I could have a bleacher seat with popcorn and maybe a frito pie, that would be
stellar. If I could have a beer with them afterwards, then that would be even
better.
As a reader, my favorite books are the ones that I put down
and wonder what the characters are doing until I can get back to it. They are
the books that when I get to the end, I wish I could spend more time with the
people I’ve grown to know and love. The first writer that I can remember who
really drew me in that way was Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her depiction of her
childhood in one of the roughest areas of the US is nothing short of
incredible.
What writer makes you want to leap through the pages and go
“on screen” with their characters? Can you remember the first time it happened?
Or the last?
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9 comments:
Growing up for me it was all the Enid Blyton books. I wanted to be the one having all the adventures. The characters were so very real & I could totally picture myself there with them. I re-read them all so many times - the Secret Seven and Famous Five books especially.
When I was young the first books that I read were the Anne of Green Gables series in hardcover from the library. I was captivated with the setting and the wonderful characters and found it unforgettable.
My first experience of that was the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and for the same reason you mention. I read a bit of everything dependent on mood. My most recent read making me wish I could hangout at the coffee shop with the characters is from Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampire series. Would so not want to experience the action but am with you on the popcorn and bleacher seat for that kind of thing.
My first enthralling book experience was reading Daphne DuMaurier's novels. I felt so engrossed within the pages that no author so far has managed to interest as much.
I love Nalini Singh and the moment I started the 1st book I've read by her I wanted to be there. She writes such compelling books!
Growing up it was Ann McCaffery. Even though she had a fantasy world and sci fi settings, I could still picture them in my head and her characters always seemed so real to me :) Congrats on the newest release and thanks for sharing!
The first I read was from harlequin, about prince and princes and always dream how is I am a princess and married with prince and life together happily ever after :)
Two authors spearheaded my love of the romance genre Nora Roberts and LaVyrle Spencer. Both wrote beautiful descriptions that made it easy to visualize their characters in my head. I started reading romances around 1980.
There are many that I could list, but I'll just name three. Linda Lael Miller, Sandra Brown, and Nora Roberts. Not sure when the first book I read made me not want to put it down, but these three are on my constant reading list.
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