Don’t you just love quirky sayings?
Stressed off my scone is one of my favorites. It’s completely random and brings to mind a very English woman incapable of taking on an itty bitty scone.
Children tend to pick up on the sayings of their parents without realizing it. I once repeated a phrase so commonly said in our family unit that I didn’t even know I’d said it and was completely put out when my friend started laughing hysterically.
I believe these little sayings make a character more human, more relatable, more real. A cardboard cut out wouldn’t be stressed off its scone.
I love a completely deranged character, the more flawed a hero and heroine the more I want to read. Give me a woman who’s accidentally tazered her boss or who’s marched down a highway in a beaver suit and you’ll have a hard time getting rid of me.
What do you do to make your characters more real to you?
10 comments:
My mum used to always say 'are you out of your Chinese mind?' meaning 'are you mad?' After I came to realise she was speaking a corrupt version of 'are you out of your tiny mind' an English saying! Hahaha.....
Lacey, you must write one about a heroine in her beaver suit. You MUST! Okay? ;-)
What a great saying, Lacey - I've never heard that one.
One of my favourites is someone getting out of their pram. I said that to my boss once and he looked at me as if I was mad and asked me to explain - it lost something in the process.
Now him I could have cheerfully tazered - on purpose!
Love it Lacey. You're my kinda writer for sure.
Now where did I put my beaver suit?
I love it Gaelikka! There's nothing like a corrupt version of another saying to make you smile :D
Sadly the beaver suit has been done but the good news is that the author has done a far better job than I ever could :) so I'll introduce y'all to another of my favorite authors next post :D You'll love her!
Tazering my boss... hmm a fantasy perhaps? Teresa's with me, anyone else? ;) A jail cell full of quirky writers could be a lot of fun..
Beaver suit???
LOL.
Best I can do on that front is that I once told off one of the middle school children for playing chicken in the middle of the road - except I forgot I was wearing bunny ears (I should add that I was collecting Easter goodies for the tombola at the first school). I guess at least they weren't light-up sparkly ones...
And I love that phrase "stressed off my scone" - I honestly had never heard that one before you introduced me to it :)
LOL Kate!
If only I could have seen that! I think we need to get you bunny ears that are sparkly and light up for next time :D
Love the scone expression - and I'm with everyone who wants to know more about the beaver suit...
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We've got some brilliant ones over here, Lacey. My favourite has got to be:
She's like a bag of cats.
Used to describe someone cross. Or the expletive, holy hand!, short for (of course) holy hand of God. (used in a shocked voice when something awful happens. Hee Hee!
Just wait until I introduce you to the beaver suit Suzanne, you're going to love this excerpt its one of my favorites!
I love them Sally! I think all good sayings should be worked into a book and shared with the world just for their giggle factor ;)
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