My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

  • -- Ruta Sepetys 芦丁

我的妹妹和弟弟都是作家。我们一直在讨论故事和情节。我喜欢和我丈夫讨论故事的构思。

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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

首先是一个想法。然后,角色开始从这个想法中进化出来。最后,角色占主导地位:情节只是这些人可能会做什么或会成为什么人的一个功能。一切都得从他们的个性中流淌出来;否则,它就不会在情感上吸引人,也不可信。

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

我为我的角色准备了一个精心制作的日历,详细记录了每件事发生的日期。我一直在修改。它给了我自由,让我可以复杂地构思我的故事,知道它至少会在时间轴上站得住。

My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

我哥哥是波音公司的航空工程师,我开始想,‘我哥哥每天工作九个小时……要是我每天工作九个小时当演员呢?”

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

我有一个比我小的弟弟。我妈妈是图书管理员,所以从她那里,我有了阅读的品味。