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This is in general to other authors who write. Have you ever wanted to live the life of the characters that you write about? I often feel this way, especially when the character is like Christine in my 'Christine's Love' story. She personifies everything that I find fascinating in a female. On a side note, often when I write, I find that I place myself into the story and strangely enough, I seem to sense how they would respond...I find it strange but possibly it really isn't, as I am sure that other authors do this themselves. I'm sorry, I'm rambling...I really need to get to writing. :D Anon Allsop
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Yes and no.
Yes, I've wanted to live the lives of some of the characters in my head, while others, I'm glad I'm not!
For me, this is more about being able to enjoy aspects of living that I never really got to.
No, I don't tend to place myself into the story, except as fragments that make up parts of the various characters... Each character, once created, takes on a life of their own though, and they tell me what to write as though dictating to me a biography. And I'm just their biographer. I'm simply writing the biographies of people who don't exist.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
a lot of my characters are me
under slightly different circumstances, so I would probably want to be like them, if I could.
Dorothycolleen, member of Bailey's Angels
Living the life of our characters.
In one story of mine, "The Natural Slave", at the time, I very much wanted to live that life, and still would, but as time has passed, I realised that I was simply expressing the need to be loved and accepted at any price; to be touched, even if it meant pain and suffering felt worth it at the time.
I found a scene that I was writing in a story that is not yet released to be extremely difficult to write. It was about a daughter rescuing her father from the enemy, only to have him die of a heart attack. I was shattered, and still have not gone back to resume my work on that story.
Merry Christmas
Gwendolyn
I believe, when it comes to
I believe, when it comes to fiction, authors tend to write the story they want to live. Stories are vehicles that transport us, if only for a little while, to places real life can't always take us. And authors, more than anyone else, are driven to go places no one else has been able to take them.
Whaddaya think? Too corny? :)
- vessica b
Outside of TG writing I
Outside of TG writing I can't think of one of my characters whose life I would like. Some of them do things I would never do and I have sometimes been very cruel to them. Inside this magic circle I think that a lot of the more popular writing is about wish fulfillment. To write succesful work of this kind you probably have to want to be in it somewhere, that way you know that your readers will too.
My first TG heroine went a on journey that I would have loved to take in her place at that time. Since I started my own journey that has become less important to me and now when I write for this site (about once a year) I am seeking to explore other aspects of the subject.
New story coming soon.
Tess.
The strangest journeys start with a single step.
The strangest journeys start with a single step.
My characters feel like
My characters feel like family, but I have not entertained living their lives. My life is what made me me. I don't regret one moment of my life. The way I am inspired is that the characters tell me where they want to go. I may be relaxing when the ideas for the story come.
Living vicariously through our characters
To be perfectly frank, some of the situations I've thrust upon my characters don't bare thinking about. I'm really glad they are just fictional, or I'd probably end up getting lynched.
Perhaps it's because I'm not really into writing lovey-dovey stories that makes me glad I'm not them. Okay, they may get what they wanted in the end, but on the whole, they have huge platefuls of nastiness to navigate through before they get there and I'm not going to put my hand up for any of that.
I'm a pretty sick puppy as any of my characters will attest.
Stick with what you've got's what I say or find someone else's stories to live vicariously through as other than a couple of mine, my characters really do get far too much to contend with to make it comfortable - at least they do for me.
I don't just look it, I'm totally pleased with what I've got thank you
I agree, concur, jibe... YES!
I found it inevitable.
In my first story here, I named the main character after myself simply because she reacted to everything the same way that I imagined I would react in those situations. I ended up with a character that I not only wished to be, but a person that I wanted to meet and hang around with.
The girl in me...
She's always there and she's embarrassed to admit that she's
somewhat narcissistic (personality-wise).
Based on me?
No way!
I'm not TG. I just have a head full of information given to me by a girl I met at work. She took the time to tell me all the why's and wherefores of going through SRS and I was there to see her blossom into a very beautiful young (well, thirty-something) lady.
My characters are a hotch-potch of people I've met, some of whom have just one redeeming feature - the one I used in the stories, so forgive me if they don't seem wholly real.
I don't just look it, I'm totally stealing everyone's traits
Many of my characters are bits & pieces of me or who I might ...
... imagine I would be under different circumstances. Both the good and the bad. Male and female. The smildons are our cats, sort of.
That and people I grew up with or worked with and so on.
You are the accumulation of your experiences tempered by dreams, imagination and your basic nature.
I think it would be hard to write a major character that was not based to some extent on your own experience.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
maybe
Or you could have an evil muse and a highly overactive and detailed imagination.
I am a mostly round peg surrounded by square holes. I don't fit in anywheres though I try. My stories reflect that in part. The chars say one thing and imply another leaving everyone including the author wonder just what the flagnar is going on. Probably doesn't help that I giggle alot while writing either.
Giggling?
Most certainly - uncontrollably at times.
I don't just look it, I'm totally off the wall
Oh yeah!
Almost all of my primaqry characters have something of me in them. Yeah, I would love to live the lives of my characters, but I think that's normal in the way I write.
I know some people sit back and think 'what can I do to this person to make a conflict and create a story', and maybe I need to do that as well! So far though, my stories have come from my dreams, and how I interpret them. Truly not the most reliable way to find a story!
Wren
Definitely
As a matter of fact, most of the stories bouncing around in my head start as fantasies I make up at night in the dark to help get me to sleep and stop reality stresses from keeping me awake. They pretty much grow from there.