[stylist] using multiples in characterizasion

[Barbara Hammel]

Vejas, I'm more of a poet, but when I dabble in some story writing--I do 
more making up stories in my head because that's how I go to sleep--I love 
multiples, too.
I'd say you can probably do whichever you like.  If they like the same 
things, you might want to have each be more talented at something.  I've a 
set of twins who are autistic so they don't have much interest in anything, 
yet, between the two of them they make a more complete person than they do 
alone.
My husband has a niece that had twins in which one died shortly after birth 
and when I met her for the first time as an eight-year-old--and not knowing 
she was a twin--I could tell she might have been one.
They are each their own unique personalities but it seems to me that 
something's missing if one has died.
Barbara




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-----Original Message----- 
From: vejas
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:16 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] using multiples in characterizasion

Hi,
In my writing, I often like to use multiples, such as twins,
triplets, quadruplets etc.
For anyone else who uses multiples in their writing, how do you
do it? Do you make it so that each is their own individual
person, even if they're identical? Also, do you be careful about
the number you use (because I'm interested in really high
multiples.) Because what I think is, if you had a story about
identical sextuplets who all like to do the same things, it's
almost like, what's the point of having all one six if they have
a similarity?
Vejas

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