So I'm writing a book based in Wonderland. And obviously I'm drawing on characters from Lewis Carroll's original works (both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass), but I'm also thinking I'll need to create my own characters, so I have a big enough cast, and enough people to play roles that don't really fit Carroll's original characters. Do you think that's okay? Should I limit my number of original characters? Should I take v v minor background characters from AiW and TtLG and make them my own? What are your thoughts?
I think you should do all of it
Yeah. Especially using background characters.
LOL line I v much appreciate your acknowledgement of my post thank you
but like
IDK
maybe the minor characters thing is too much work? like to choose a minor character and really develop them and bring them into the spotlight is a lot of work, but might also limit character creation?
It could.
You could do OCs that are based off background characters with out being the background characters (idk if that makes any sense .-.)
like…. keeping the names and creating whole new characters?
ALSO I'd like to clarify- the characters that you think of when you think Alice in Wonderland- I probably have them already. Alice, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, The Cheshire Cat, all those…. I have them all.
when I say background character I'm talking like….
bill the lizard
who no one remembers
or like
characterizing the walrus and the carpenter from Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum's story
or the dodo bird
I am talking seriously background characters
not side characters
What about the griffon?
No, I don't have the griffon, but I'll look at putting it in
Do you have the flowers that no one likes but I kinda love?
Also you could maybe do like a POV rom those pencil/hammer bird-thingamajiggs.
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Do you have the flowers that no one likes but I kinda love?
I don't but I'm also not sure how to put them in.
My AiW telling is kinda dark lol. We open on a rebellion overthrowing the Queen of Hearts, and she basically gets beheaded, and then Alice gets put on the throne, but thanks to a childhood association with Peter Pan, she's like… well, she's obsessed with finding a way to stay young and then you have the Jabberwocky who has provided her with a way to suck the youth out of the hearts of criminals, but she's being presented with people whose crimes are v minor…. not exactly Disney-movie lol. She's a bit of a tyrant. But she's not as unreasonable as the previous QoH, so no one really minds? Or cares? And yeah, lots of political turmoil. Also another subplot by the Knave of Hearts to get the throne. So. Not sure how flowers come in lol.
Also you could maybe do like a POV rom those pencil/hammer bird-thingamajiggs.
That is a very interesting idea! I hadn't thought of that! I might use that for a scene in Tulgey Woods
Kat, that sounds sensational. Please let me know when you publish.
Kat, that sounds sensational. Please let me know when you publish.
I will lol. It's gonna be my nanowrimo project. I'm just doing a crap-ton of development because knowing me, it will not be done in a month if I do not come up with the plot and all the characters beforehand.
Thanks! Now I'm thinking like maybe the bird is watching her the whole time, or you could do random segments of it's POV to take a break from Alice. Whatever you do, it sounds cool.
yeah, not entirely sure what POV the entire story is from lol. I just know it's not first person. But the last chapter is. Maybe the first one (which is kinda prologue-y) too. But like. Yeah. It's gonna be fun lol
Also it's crossed over with Peter Pan I can't remember if I mentioned that
I'm so excited about it lol
I can see why! It sounds so cool!
Ok now I really need to read this.
DO YOU GUYS WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT
TALKING ABOUT IT LETS ME FIGURE MORE STUFF OUT
OKAY HERE WE GO IT'LL TAKE A BIT
