Hmm I think this could be a loaded question today. I guess it would be a loaded question any day. Can a question even be loaded? It's not like they are guns or you know, have to go number 2. Would this count? I went off topic as I tend to do. A trait it may be. Heck, I haven't even got on topic yet to get off topic. And if I am never on topic can I even get off? Hmm better get on with it before I hurt your head...or mine. Yeah, probably hurt that a long time ago.
What personal traits have you written into your character(s)?
Well with the blog and the books, I think I have gotten many of them in there. Heck, the many may be even closer to all of them in there. I did go all meta with one novel, so I think that took quite a few of them off the list there. Plus, the ones I write in first person I find more of my traits seep in then in third person. Although the latter has a few in there too in just about all of them. Except for maybe the novel I wrote thanks to a past WEP entry. That one was just out to lunch. Don't think I'm a serial killer. At least not this week. Speaking of...
Winner. Winner. Chicken dinner. I guess it was good that I sat my arse down and typed that post out, huh? And that makes 3! Not that I'm counting, yeah, maybe I really am. Shhh...
I think it is clear, or maybe blurry if you need glasses, that my traits may seep on through in just about anything. How about you? Got any traits you stick into your writing? Blog? Resumes? Ads for love? Hey, I won't judge...too much.
Each trait can hold some weight.
Well with the blog and the books, I think I have gotten many of them in there. Heck, the many may be even closer to all of them in there. I did go all meta with one novel, so I think that took quite a few of them off the list there. Plus, the ones I write in first person I find more of my traits seep in then in third person. Although the latter has a few in there too in just about all of them. Except for maybe the novel I wrote thanks to a past WEP entry. That one was just out to lunch. Don't think I'm a serial killer. At least not this week. Speaking of...
Winner. Winner. Chicken dinner. I guess it was good that I sat my arse down and typed that post out, huh? And that makes 3! Not that I'm counting, yeah, maybe I really am. Shhh...
I think it is clear, or maybe blurry if you need glasses, that my traits may seep on through in just about anything. How about you? Got any traits you stick into your writing? Blog? Resumes? Ads for love? Hey, I won't judge...too much.
Each trait can hold some weight.
#1?
ReplyDeleteThis is much easier than it used to be.
Deletehaha - That is true Adam. I miss Hank.
DeleteThat it is indeed
DeleteWhere is Hank anyway?
DeleteSeems to be away at his bay
Delete#2
ReplyDeleteI seem to be #2 and I am sensing some deja vu. I think personal traits may pop up here and there, coincidence or something more?
DeleteHave a great day at your hideaway.
Yeah, more like forced. No coincidence or something more. Just what we do at our shore.
DeleteNumber 2 but no blue suede shoe.
DeleteNot today, anyway
DeleteWe got some neighbors who always seem be be loaded, they’ve no character at all!
ReplyDeleteMust not be enough room left
DeleteNot touching the line about never on topic and getting off...
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's why there isn't much of me in my characters. I write all third person.
haha don't want to reach out and touch? Wise.
DeleteThird person is a bit easier to stray away from one's self.
Loaded...hehehe. My hubby is load with gas especially at night. I think you know your pussy cats well. I think we all put a bit of ourselves into things we write.
ReplyDeletehaha the gas has to come on out. That we do.
DeleteGood to know there’s no serial killer in you. There are parts of me in my main characters too.
ReplyDeletehaha yeah, that is a good thing not to have in one's self.
DeleteI would think some traits would come through in a writer's writings. After all, they know those traits so well, why not write about them?
ReplyDeletebetty
Yeah, just let them flow and out they go.
DeleteAnger and resignation these days!
ReplyDeleteWith a side of passive aggressive?
DeleteCongrats on the WEP win.
ReplyDeleteIs there any of the Cat in your characters?
Oh there may be. One character is Orlin in my series, so that is easy.
DeleteMy writing is loaded with furs and purrs :-)
ReplyDeleteFine way to be
DeleteNot a serial killer, maybe a cereal killer - eat a bowl of Fruit Loops lately?
ReplyDeleteNope, not in decades.
DeleteWe all have gobs of traits, some to use and some to forget. Those we hate should be used first because they're probably the most interesting.
ReplyDeleteTeresa C.
That they probably are.
DeleteInteresting that your first person stories capture a bit more of yourself. I think all of my books have a bit of me in them.
ReplyDeleteThings seem to seep in somewhere
DeleteI used to be personal on the blog. These days it's just product reviews and pretty generic, but I still like to do it. Big congrats to you, on getting the top spot again!! Woot!!
ReplyDeleteI remember those days. Still kinda personal with pics as you and the kiddo try stuff out.
DeleteYour banner is everything. Is the alien flicking us off? Congrats on the win!
ReplyDeleteMore like getting ready to probe lol
DeleteGetting ready to probe? Ha ha ha!
DeleteHey, they gotta know what's up there, supposedly.
DeleteI'll take questions that are loaded
ReplyDeletewith chocolate
and I'll get bloated
but be happy
it's better than questions
loaded with crappy
stuff
That'd be more than
enough.
Crappy stuff can be tough. For with that gripe, you need plenty of ass wipe.
DeleteI've wondered how much of you is in everything you write. Do people ever say you might be a smart ass? In all the best ways.
ReplyDeletehaha been called that a time or two. Also a shit disturber gets thrown around a bit.
DeleteFirst off, congrats on the WEP win! YAAAAAY, you!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you aren't a serial killer... :)
haha yeah, you may have thought otherwise after that book, huh?
DeleteCongrats on your "Freely Caged" piece, Pat! And kudos to WEP/IWSG for honoring the less caged! Of your books that I have read, I've always thought that "Delivered" delivered you, closely followed by "Detoured." Not the boy stranded in the snow, but Martin, that is.
ReplyDeleteYou thought right. About 90% me in that character indeed.
DeleteThose traits do have a way of seeping in, even when we try to avoid it.
ReplyDeleteThat they do.
DeleteCongratulations on your win. How exciting. It's neat that all or almost all of your traits are in your characters. I might have one or two, need to look at the books and see.
ReplyDeleteThey all get in there in one way or another it seems.
DeleteThat first person does lead you into more personal exploration. Well, it should. It's the essayist's pov--or it used to be. Now it's up for grabs and we can do with it as we please. I love the freedom to explore like this. And speaking of exploring...here a great hurray for your WEP in June.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it does come off as an essayist's pov. Good way of looking at it indeed.
DeleteCongrats on your win! Traits on the blog? I guess normal (or maybe not so normal?) people traits? Whatever my family does to inspire my writing for that post is what gets tucked in there, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteSo family traits get worked on in, or at least what they do.
DeleteI guess first person narration lends itself to adding bits of ourselves a little easier! Congrats on the win, Pat.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it just comes off easier that way.
DeleteLook at you collecting all your wins along the way! :) Seriously, congratulations, Pat. Well deserved, for sure!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't a serial killer say they aren't a serial killer? hahaha
Elsie
haha wouldn't someone who knows that also be a potential serial killer? And I said just not this week. Coulda been last week. Hmmmm.
DeleteCongrats on your win. Happy IWSG!
ReplyDeleteThanks
DeleteCongrats on the win! I'm glad you're not a serial killer. lol
ReplyDeletelol yeah, wise thing not to be.
DeleteHuzzah on the win!
ReplyDeleteThanks
DeleteAlways good to scratch serial killer off the list of character traits. Heh.
ReplyDeletehaha but maybe scratching is a gateway to it
DeleteCongrats on your freedom ride for your Caged Bird Pat. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteFreedom ride works for the win.
DeleteHonestly, I don't see how an author can NOT write some of their own values and beliefs into a fictional world. Where else do our opinions Reign, lol.
ReplyDeletelol very true, have to let them win somewhere.
DeleteI can meow like a cat/and also like a feline, wear a hat. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
Two for one.
DeleteCongratulations on your WEP win!
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteHope you're enjoying your long weekend.
ReplyDeleteThat we be at our sea.
DeleteHmmm, I wrote about my kids, so I wrote about me
DeleteAnd that means lots of my personality
Wanted to change the law
From what I lived and saw
But now I just write to blow off steam
And I write some of the stuff I dream
PS: Congrats on #3
DeleteAt your sea!
Thanks indeed
DeleteSteam is the way at one's feed
Write and let it blow
And then you never know
Ha, I think everything one writes reflects something of the author!
ReplyDeleteThat it does.
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