Novel Story - Creating real characters in the novel - the dark side Go

One of the best interviews I have ever heard of the letter was sent to writer Jennifer Cruise Spring 2003 Writers Retreat Workshop. She gave the same speech again at the Romance Writers of America national conference later this summer, and it was equally inspiring second time. She talked about going all-out in your letter. Dig deep. Living in your story. Bringing your characters live. She talked about something I had never thought of: to dark places.
"You have to go to dark places, she said," put the story of your people. "
What this means: The dark places?
As a novelist, every story you write each character that you create a part of you. This does not mean your characters are like you, or vice versa. No one wants to be like the "bad guys". Half the time we do not want to know how to do our good. You are crazy, go to all these adventures, will conflict with each revolution. Who wants that!
Even if your characters are unique individuals and they do not like you, there is a part of himself in them. They draw on parts of themselves to create ... even the wicked. Part of what contributes to their conflict comes from something in your experience or your feelings and thoughts.
This is the part of the writing of the novel Icky. Few of us enjoy dredging up these emotions. Sometimes we do not even know when they come, they are buried deep. They would pay a lot of money for a psychologist to guide you through this process, and at least then you would be in a safe place! By writing a novel, you're on your own.
To access the proverbial dark places, you need to calm your soul. You must understand who your characters are really thinking. Draw deep into their lives. Sometimes writing in a newspaper, one of your characters asks hard questions and write the answers to your point of view of character is helpful. Talking into a tape recorder, asking questions and responding to the voice of your character can also help you access to the dark places.
If you stop liking reactions when they start to make themselves uncomfortable, that is exactly the time to continue. You are on something. Resist the urge to protect your character - and himself - that the uncertainty of real life intrusion into your fictional world of peace. The possibility to your characters be themselves - their self-icky - you give them life. You make it real for your readers. They create the basis for a novel of your readers will not be able to put down. The characters live after the last page is read. Your readers are again more.
It is a journey sometimes frightening. If you can bear it, your work reflects the risk by took place on dark places. They reach a level of honesty and emotion, that the page is skipped. You touch your readers a very real way. You do not know how or why your work speaks to them so much, but they value. You never know how the experience of reading what you brought back to move from the dark places. That's what that means, "the story to bring to the people."
As a novelist, if you succeed, if we are to dark places, never afraid to return.