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February 05, 2008
TOO LATE Week Eight! Plus Commentary!
Click on the link to read this week's installment and then come on back to read the commentary below the cut!
My favorite way to write is to really put a lot of research into the characters and then just let them do their thing and try to keep up with them while chronicling what they're doing. It's really great when a character surprises me with a turn of phrase or doing something that I myself wouldn't do.
The molasses bit in here was one of those great moments. I was very much writing Mann as Marlowe so I tried to have him come up with ways of phrasing things that people normally don't do, like turning "Slow as molasses" into "You ever pour molasses?"
But it was here that Meghan did something I didn't see coming. Once I had Mann ask her that question, I stopped and thought on what her background was, and realized, you know, she probably hasn't. Hell, I never have either. That moment in there was one of my favorites in the book and I still get a chuckle out of it on every reading.
Also of note: The Boston Molasses Disaster. I'm totally going to write a graphic novel about this some time in my life. I came across this while I was thinking on the whole molasses thing. Yes, I put that much research into every little line. It's a miracle I get anything done at all.
Posted by Schamberger at February 5, 2008 10:06 PM