[stylist] using multiples in characterizasion

[vejas]

How could you tell yrrt-niece was a twin before you knew?
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:30:59 -0600
Subject: Re: [stylist] using multiples in characterizasion

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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