I have been thinking a lot about love, attraction, infatuation, promiscuity versus virtue and pretty much all things involved in what makes a relationship spark and thrive in order to articulate it through my character, Julia. I am creating a woman so immensely different than who I am that I feel it necessary to really consider things from an entirely different perspective. I have a rather traditional view of what’s right when it comes to matters of romantic love, but my character might not. I think about how she would interpret situations in an often opposite way from how I would. What would entice me might repulse her, and vice versa. When offered the apple, would my Eve take it? I think she might.
It’s quite a fun exercise: I get to entertain the devil-on-my-left-shoulder’s opinions, but not act on them. I can play a whole scenario out through writing but never have done anything even remotely wrong! And as a bonus: others can enjoy reading about it. I think it’s a win-win, don’t you?
(Drawing courtesy of Rae to the Gina's blog)
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