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All right. You knew it was coming.. ... After the last post, you know you did.
Yes. Emancipated hamsters.
I nearly devoted this post to NOT letting them take over your romance novel. But I have done that twice already with regard to secondary hamsters…oops.. characters.
https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/the-necessity-of-seconds/
Do you know I even menshied…NO. Not Harrison the Hamster…
Can we get this right please? So if you wanna know about that…go here
https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/knowing-youre-the-bellboy/
This post is about the development of hamster and hamster,
sorry, hero and heroine in romance writing. You see, no matter how sweet the little hamsters are…
kissing and that.. Please can you note…
his claw in her hair. Or maybe it is her claw in his, her being a bit of a beefer hamster? And him being kind of bouffoned?
The thing is, the point I am trying to make here–of course there is one–hamsters may look cute but even if Google doesn’t say so, my understanding is they will fight to the death over that last straw end, half a piece of peed on popcorn and who is having first turn of the wheel.
That is before we get anywhere near whose cage it is really.
The point is…imagine these hamsters were human, just for a second.
Okay?
I know I occasionally like to with my heroes and heroines…….
What are the hamsters doing? Well they are guarding themselves and their pissy little bit of turf.
Now, start imagining your hero and heroine that way.
Hmmm?
Enough said about what we need re character development arcs etc, etc, etc, and why?
With it, when writing it, should we let our hero and heroine go there willingly?
Or should we throw a few emancipated hamsters in their way?
shehanne moore 
Love the funny hamsters, Shehanne 🙂 🙂
I was misbehaving . listen I dm’d you on twitter, with my email address last night for coming on the blog. I dm’d one or two who said they got half a message. If you did not get it cane you contact me through my contact form so I can send the questions. I have them ready to go about your book and also plenty nice animals. x
Don’t you always misbehave! LOL It wouldn’t be you if you didn’t. 🙂 I replied to one of your tweets about coming on the blog and have just looked for the DM (I don’t look very often – it’s usually just spam!) and now I have your email. I will send you a message. xo
Just posted the question to you. We will bring out a few hamsters for the occasion.
“They are guarding their pissy little bit of turf.” Well said, Ms Moore. You have the uncanny ability to turn a serious lesson into a comedy. I am all in favour of throwing a few emancipated hamsters in the pathway of true love, and my current WIP has a horde of hairy, buck-toothed little monsters swarming all over the Irish countryside. Love your post.
Noelle, I did start out serious honest. But you know me. One of these days I will surprise you by turning a comedy into a serious lesson. But hell, how boring would that be?
Monsters eh? I hope it is not like midgie you once sent me picture of! I think they are more Scots than Irish but hey…
xxxxx for coming by
I shall never look at hamsters quite the same way again. Cute little furry things? No more. Now I see them for the seditious gangsters they really are. Thank you for enlightening me, Shey!
Then I have done some good Antonia!! That is why they live alone apparently…..
Ha ha ha like wolves in hamster skin if even possible.
So fun how you explain the writing process. SO much a writer dislikes their characters to be like that. Maybe that is why I am swinging a whip around in my writing. they learn the hard way to stay on track and who to listen to.
Protecting their turvies… I turn them topsy over when they bite me in the fingers.
But thank you for the clues.
Ranting…lovely to see you too. Well, making the characters like that but still characters we would want to red about is part of the fun. Seeing them get all that shit knocked out of them by the other is a good giggle and a good incentive for them to learn to stop behaving that way and be the real person they are deep down.
Tell that to a stubborn manipulated girly hamster. Can they be even more demanding. that is not protecting.. that is is. an all out war decleration
Good. All the more to write about then….
Very clever! And cute. I chuckled all the way through this one!
oh one must have a giggle! Thank you for coming by Shaz xxxx
What a great post, the hamsters were a real bonus 😀 Good points about the romance though, and throwing a few objects in front of the characters, possibly not hamster though!
Abso not. We don’t want the RSPCA shutting down your book. The emancipated hamsters either. This blog either. Glad you enjoyed. You gave me food for thought yesterday on your blog.
Loved, loved, loved this blog, Shey. The hamsters were adorable. I have had about a dozen as classroom pets. Watching them zoom around in those plastic balls is hilarious.
Aubrey!! Lovely to see you. Hamsters are something else. My younger daughter lived with someone at one stage and it didn’t work out. Like that when she phoned in floods of tears asking us to collect her the problem was the ‘shared’ hamster. Naturally I was wanting to see her right and I told her to bring it. To say Mr Shey had a fit would be an understatement.
This caused ‘Dad doesn’t want my hamster’ hysterics. So I did the ‘Of course he does. But I see it or I smell it and it’s out’ bit Well, that hamster was adorable. Such a character in every way. The bold escape attempts, the artistic arrangements of the different kinds of food, I was quite gutted when he died aged 3!
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