If you haven’t guessed, I like having my characters talk and get into public debates. It happens in the comments of every ‘Ask a Character’. So, I wanted to make a post like this with the entire mental circus debating some issue. Just can’t think of a good issue.
I also wanted to figure out if there’s a way to let everyone in on it. What I mean is a way to have other people get involved with their characters. I know that could work in the comments, but that would only be me with my characters talking to everyone. At least for the most part.
So, any ideas on how I can get this to work? Even a topic for this experiment would be appreciated or the simple ‘it can’t be done’ comment. Maybe this would work better on the Community Storyboard.
Legends of Windemere 
Hmmm…. *taps cheekbone with forefinger and frowns*
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the subject of the debate could be a chance to air your beefs with your own genre… using your characters to play devil’s advocate also… interesting idea whatever you decide…
it would be a dull debate whatever the subject with the inclusion of characters I’m working on presently because they don’t have language skills as we know them…
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Good point about the genre discussion. Maybe I can start it off with my characters and others can step in. Skype was suggested, but I lack that ability and I’m not sure how that would allow people to join in throughout the day.
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another way to invite interaction with readers is by running a poll on your blog and collect points of views and have your characters take those stances… I’m not to sure about the Skype thing… not everyone wants to be seen… though they may be curious to see you…the man and mind behind the stories…
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I got an author picture for that. It terrifies enough children that I don’t have to risk a video. 😉
A poll would definitely work out. Maybe I’ll give the overall structure a test tomorrow and see how it goes with people using their characters in the comments. I’ll use a separate post to gather topics and make a poll the next day from the suggestions. Is that what you meant?
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ya something like that… 😉
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If you don’t want to do all the talking maybe you could just take a topic and then discuss it with other people,say on skype. It would be mental but say for ex everybody picks a charachter and you say a topic, then they say what they think!Sorry I’ve been up since 5,I hope is clear!
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Skype hasn’t been working for me lately. How would the Skype conversation get onto the blog?
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Sorry for the delay! I said skype because it’s the one I use most but everything it’s good. Then you can paste and copy as it is the conversation,do the editing and put it on the blog or wherever!
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I’ll try my best. Google Chat was recommended too.
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I have a character from Cannibal Hearts I’d like to submit– Chuck “Exquisite” Harwood, undead janitor and vice-president of Isidore Construction.
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Great. Any ideas how we can get this idea to work outside of the comments? I’m still having trouble with the logistics. Okay, I have no idea what I’m doing.
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Google or Yahoo chat, then edit the chat logs into a post. I’m thinking Michelle Proulx and Kira Lyn Blue would be good to invite as well.
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I’m going to make a public invite post today once I figure out a good time.
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Gather friends google chat copy paste
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I need to get friends? This is getting complicated.
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I’m sure you can find some around here somewhere
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With the different time zones, is there an easy way to do this? I can write a complicated story with strings that go into other series until it’s a vast web of a world. Yet, I can’t figure out how to get a handful of people together for a Google Chat.
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Announce the time and whoever can make it does. Simple really.
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Guess I’ll do that later today when I figure out the best time. Thanks.
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Uh . . . Google+ changed everything. I think chat is now hangout, but I can’t be certain.
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True…tell me if you want/need an extra talker!
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I’ll be doing a post later with a time and place. Need to sort something out to make sure I can make it.
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