tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432926003979183753.post1362621121200428380..comments2015-08-08T14:36:12.294-07:00Comments on Jewell Parker Rhodes: Writing Lessons: Creating Character, Part 2Jewell Parker Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918241016820913753noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432926003979183753.post-46516703431950394872009-09-23T14:43:50.408-07:002009-09-23T14:43:50.408-07:00Dr. Rhodes, I just recently found your book Voodoo...Dr. Rhodes, I just recently found your book Voodoo Season. I love New Orleans, and the book just was an immersing experience. I loved the characters, the history. I just received Yellow Moon today, and decided to look in the Internet to see if you were writing something new with these characters. I am so happy to hear you are writing a third installment in this series. Please keep writing - I can't wait to read some of your other works. I am ordering Magic City and Porch stories next. Thank you for such wonderful stories!akarinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07213379151020134021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432926003979183753.post-63419224757828072072008-09-10T12:27:00.000-07:002008-09-10T12:27:00.000-07:00Julia,Oh, yes, the characters become very real – y...Julia,<BR/><BR/>Oh, yes, the characters become very real – you are birthing them as a writer. The characters, in turn, are giving you life experiences you never would have had.<BR/><BR/>I find characters might my life bigger, my heart broader – I am more human because of them.<BR/><BR/>Re: failure – because you CARE about writing, you get afraid. I still do!<BR/><BR/>I am so happy that the ancestors are with you!<BR/><BR/>To all writers, you must nurture yourself and your creativity. Do what you can...when you can...and honor the process.<BR/><BR/>JewellJewell Parker Rhodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918241016820913753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432926003979183753.post-28494220177925979142008-09-07T21:51:00.000-07:002008-09-07T21:51:00.000-07:00As I go back and re-read my ms I am learning thing...As I go back and re-read my ms I am learning things such as you teach in your Writing Lessons. I am understanding this "feeling" that tumbles around in my gut, making me anxious as it seeks its way up into my chest pricking me, encouraging me to continue conversing with my characters. At first I thought I was becoming too invloved in the "fantasy" of it all, now I realize it is "normal" to really embrace them, love them, rejoice and cry with them. Writing has always been my passion, but I was afraid of failure. Until I began calling out the names of my Ancestors, and they began to answer. The words began to tell a story and their faces, lives, habits and behaviors began to breathe. <BR/><BR/> Ashe, <BR/> thechifferobe@att.netJulia Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376752026146582321noreply@blogger.com