{"id":2269,"date":"2018-07-17T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2018-07-15T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T12:37:07","slug":"its-all-in-your-my-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/its-all-in-your-my-head\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All in Your (My) Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0Gore Vidal<\/p>\n<p>That feels true to me. \u00a0My stories build up in my mind, crowding out everyday thoughts. I think of the mass of characters I&#8217;ve invented as <em>real<\/em> beings. They must be real; they have names, personalities, quirks, and boyfriends as well as moments of joy and disappointment. I talk with friends, including my imaginary characters and come close to sending them birthday cards each year. Then I remember they don&#8217;t age; they are perpetually the age I leave them when my books end.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder what happened to my characters in the years following the end of my story. Would they marry? Have a family? Change jobs? Move to a new town? That&#8217;s for someone else to unravel. For me they stay frozen in time and place as I left them.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe as writers we have a special crazy gene. I choose to think like Gore Vidal that I have a repertory company in my head. That way I&#8217;m never alone for long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead:<\/p>\n<p>Remember the next random drawing for a VISA card will be Sept. 30th. To enter send me a copy of the review of <em>Tasman-An Innocent Convict&#8217;s Struggle for Freedom <\/em>that you have posted to Goodreads or Amazon. Details on my website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. \u00a0\u00a0Gore Vidal That feels true to me. \u00a0My stories build up in my mind, crowding out everyday thoughts. I think of the mass of characters I&#8217;ve invented as real beings. They must be real; they have names, personalities, quirks, and boyfriends as well as moments of joy and disappointment. I talk with friends, including my imaginary characters and come close to sending them birthday cards each year. Then I remember they don&#8217;t age; they are perpetually the age I leave them when my books end. Sometimes I wonder what&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-development","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}