Joyce Carol Oates - On Writing Characters

Its time the writers wake up and smell the coffee

Check out what I nave written.
Its so true and its global.

Its Christmas and its happening and We in Canada are not so controlled by the Jews and most of us hate George Bush and Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton anyhow.

As someone who's never read anything by a female author (yes, it's true... Not even Karin Boye), what would you recommend? Oates?

@ToniMaples: Here I come looking to see if maybe Oates has something interesting to say and someone mentions Dan Brown...? Go away please.

I've wanted to be an author since I was 10. I'd been working on a story for kids. Now, I'm finally going to get my book published! I can hardly wait. It's going to be available on Waterstone's and Tesco's websites (in the UK), hopefully around spring 2010. I've always wanted to show that I'm good at doing something, even though I'm autistic. Hopefully it'll inspire other people like me to follow their dreams. =o)

I just write whatever comes.

@Rimfairy
What's up Jordan!! Did you ever eat that nickel? Look Behind you, out the window...

attn: all writers world-wide

I want to know when is Dan Brown going to work
with Jeff Fisher and Jane Bowell since the Davinci Code is true.

The site is called JesusChristLovesForeverAmen blogspot

Toni Maples
Alberta Canada
tonimaples hotmail

I got an email from a man named Richard Saskle.

characters make the story, without them, readers don't become attached to the book, causing them to lose interest, and causing them to never by another one of your books.

Michael Crichton is an exception, and an anomaly.

very well done!

I am currently reading "Blonde" and I hate reading it because I have the tendency of getting lost into the world of the story.

Literally, Joyce Carol Oates has the ability to suck you into the story and place you into the life of the main character-I love her, she is extraordinary. Her writing is mesmerizing.