{"id":1644,"date":"2012-01-25T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:29:59","slug":"picturing-the-way-we-falls-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/picturing-the-way-we-falls-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturing The Way We Fall<\/i>‘s characters"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m getting ready to write a new story, I often have a much easier time figuring out the characters’ personalities and voices if I can form a picture of them in my head. Some characters arrive with a distinct physical presence — I knew what Cass from Give Up the Ghost<\/i> looked like before I was totally sure what her story was — or immediately bring to mind a particular actor or public figure. Others are more ephemeral, so I browse through scores of photos online until an image clicks. Either way, by the time I sit down to write, I can “see” all of the major characters.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to find out how I “saw” some of the main characters from The Way We Fall<\/i>, click on the links below to see the pictures.<\/p>\n

Kaelyn<\/b><\/p>\n

The Kaelyn in my head looks a lot like actress Carmen Ejogo. She’s younger, and her hair would be un-highlighted, and she’s not actress-level pretty. But otherwise, that’s her!<\/p>\n

See pictures of Carmen Ejogo here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tessa<\/b><\/p>\n

I’ve always pictured Tessa as looking quite a bit like actress Bonnie Wright, but I didn’t actually track down a specific photo of Wright until I was putting together this post. It was a little hard to find one that completely fit my image of Tessa. She needed bangs, and she shouldn’t be wearing a noticeable amount of make-up, and she’d look fairly serious. I’d say this one comes the closest<\/a>, though my mental Tessa is a little paler and has more freckles.<\/p>\n

Gav<\/b><\/p>\n

My image of Gav is a composite — his face reminded me of actor Logan Lerman, but his hair was light brown and curly. Rather like Shawn Ashmore’s<\/a>! Mash them together, and you pretty much have Gav.<\/p>\n

Leo<\/b><\/p>\n

Leo only appears in The Way We Fall<\/i> in flashback, but he’s so important to Kaelyn I needed a visual impression of him. My searching brought me to actor Jang Geun Suk. I wanted to be able to see both the happy-go-lucky side<\/a> of Leo and the more serious side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That may be how I<\/i> saw the characters, but I’m sure every reader pictured them differently. I’d love to know, how close were my images to what you imagined?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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