WIP The Movie Bloghop

Kyra Lennon and Rachel Schieffelbein are hosting a cool blogfest today.

This blogfest seems custom made for me since I'm having some trouble concentrating on my wip. The idea is to cast at least one character from your work in progress, post a picture of him or her on your blog and post at least one song that would be on the soundtrack. Kyra says that, if you've never imagined your book being made into a movie, your pants are probably on fire. I've checked my pants and there's not so much as a suggestion of smoke.

Before Interview With A Vampire became a movie, someone asked Anne Rice what actor she thought should play Lestat. Not only was Tom Cruise NOT even her last choice, she always thought of Lestat as a young Rutger Hauer.

Rutger Hauer

Huh? Him? WHY? I thought. He's so not Lestat (though I liked him in Blade Runner.) That's when I realized that authors should not cast their own characters. But I'm going to anyway.

That said, I have trouble picturing my protagonist. I know what she's like. I know how she feels and how she thinks. I know what would make her laugh and cry. But I only have a rough sketch of what she looks like. She's sixteen. She's tall for a girl. She's on the lanky side. She doesn't think much of her looks, so she doesn't think about her looks much. She's got short dark hair with long, in her face bangs. She's got a shock of white hair (natural) in her bangs. She wears dickies and t-shirts and bites her nails. She's actually quite beautiful - or she will be. She's a cygnet waiting to be a swan. She's also isolated by her ability to find things, especially things that want to stay hidden. It makes her lonely and awkward.

She actually looks a lot like my best friend Joyce did in high school. But if I post a picture of Joyce from high school here, she will probably never speak to me again.

So here's a bunch of pictures that give a rough approximate of what Mop (Margaret) from my wip Find Me looks like:

From Let the Right One In- Lina Leandersson

And what Lina looks like when she's not a vampire

Errata Stigmata from Love & Rockets

Gorgeous drawing of Hopey by Jaime Hernandez

And though I've been writing to the Downton Abbey soundtrack (which is totally inappropriate for the Find Me soundtrack!) I think one song that's got to be on is The Thin Man by Kristen Hersh. It's just so atmospheric and it matches the bittersweet ending I'm planning for Mop!

I'm actually SO GLAD I did this. I was apprehensive at first, about pinning the character down (which is why I did the bloghop, if it makes me nervous, I tend to want to do it!) But I actually am amped to get writing. This is a great exercise to add to the writer's arsenal of motivating tools. Thanks Kyra and Rachel!

So, how would you cast your wip? Also, go check out other's in the bloghop.

1.	Write Here, Write Now	2.	Chock Full of Words
3.	Theresa Paolo	4.	Leigh Covington
5.	Clare Dugmore Writes	6.	Use You Words
7.	Robin Moran	8.	Kelley Lynn
9.	Angie Cothran	10.	Juliana Haygert
11.	The Ubiquitous Perspective	12.	Melissa Hurst
13.	Larissa's World	14.	PK Hrezo
15.	magpiewrites	16.	Jenny S. Morris
17.	Emily R. King	18.	Cortney Pearson
19.	tara tyler	20.	Writing With Hope
21.	Twenty Something Fiction Writer	22.	Tracey Joseph
23.	Limey YA Lit Girl	24.	Stephen Tremp
25.	A. K. Fotinos-Hoyer	26.	Jaycee DeLorenzo
27.	4 Little Doodlebugz	28.	Jolene Perry
29.	Kelley Vitollo	30.	Thardrandian Thoughts
31.	Adjective, Not a Noun	32.	M.J. Fifield
33.	Jade Hart	34.	defcon's defunct delirium
35.	Ashley Nixon	36.	Fresh As A Daisy
37.	Circa: The Movie	38.	Entertaing Interests