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I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a tv series. this would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. and so's a good writer. and i got to listen to people for almost 20 years. that serves me well, i hope, when i try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. what's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by chapter 29.
Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind the jocks - once we came up with these key characters in a cloud of marijuana, the whole thing just came together. one of the things i'm really proud of is how much of a high-school yearbook it is in its look, so much so that hunter publishing had the art director, david kaestle, and i come for years to their annual convention and do a little talk on how not to do a yearbook.
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. and when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. a low-profile, low-resolution revolution. comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. those with something to say. they communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. using ink instead of pixels. sending messages in living, breathing space. pens scream louder into the void. even if permanent ink is not aptly named.
The black mountain poet i like most is the early creeley. those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. i think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. it fits our time, the culture.
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
No sir. the first thing is character.
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