Characters in fiction.

For me the characters are the candy, the entertainment, added to a story, which already exists in my mind or on paper. Have you ever watched a film where you have already read the book, the actors rarely echo your expectations. No Fault on their part.

This is the nature of imagination.

I have envisioned those characters as I wished them to be. I once wrote a short novel where the characters were sketchy. Male, female, old, young as was necessary for the telling of the tale. Luckily the book was still moderately successful and so I was able to ask people what they thought of the characters in after sales talks. I realised those that read the book became the characters, those that were short made the characters short, those that were Asian, the characters suddenly had Asian features and so on.

Our imagination is fabulous.

Gone are the days of Dickens (though I love him still)

Characters now can be all we wish them to be. I am going to attempt such an idea again and see if it truly works. I think that it will.