Okay, dude, I have basically been writing the same novel for close to a year. I wrote and finished one and the one I am writing now is virtually identical to this one except the sexual anxiety is concentrated and aesthetisized. Mine is about seven men (in their late twenties and early thirties) who come together under the same roof. The problem is, I can't seem to come up with legitimized personalities. Sometimes they all sound the same to me.
So I'm wondering, how do you differentiate all the personalities from the others? It was easier for me to do it before because the previous novel had about seven people, three girls and four guys, which made it easier.
That so totally helps. I printed out what I already have and went through with some corrections - I found a lot of inconsistencies between what I wrote in the beginning and what developed. It was pretty fun correcting little details. It makes a lot of sense to let their histories speak for them. What's really hard is coming up with idiosyncrasies that can speak for the kinds of things that have shaped them. I always fall short. I'm pretty okay in the dialogue department, pretty good with introspect, but when it comes to memory or a scene that acts as a memory, I always feel like I'm writing in a template form. I have no idea how to convey memories outside of the framework I've developed over the past couple of years. It makes memories that feature relationships between males and females seem tedious and repetitive.
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So I'm wondering, how do you differentiate all the personalities from the others? It was easier for me to do it before because the previous novel had about seven people, three girls and four guys, which made it easier.
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