How many threads do you take at once?

[Perplexia]

- a welsh sorcerous bound to fall in love w/ a roman
- a uptight vampire bound to fall in love w/ a mortal
- a uptight vampire wanting to rule the world with an incubus
- an English noble archaeologicalist whose obsessed with the tale of Lugh
- a feisty mortal in love with a vampire
- a mortal in love w/ a demon
- a princess in love w/ a thief
- a damaged hitchhiker in love w/ a renegade transporter
- a shy timid pure college student whose been in love w/ her best friend whose now become possessed by a demon.
-a princess whose brother was just murdered
-a girl that lives in the frontier with her newly married husband
-a girl that inherited her mothers powers and had to summon a demon to teach her how to use them.
-a woman lost out of time on a deserted island w/ a man from the current time.
-a werewolf that had her boyfriend turned because she couldn't live w/o him
-a graphic artist that's been assigned to a popular graphic novelist. yet she doesn't know he's a vampire.
-and my seventeenth which is being revamped is a girl born into a family of watchers who finds herself orphaned and alone, growing up to be a journalist with a fascination with the dark occult.

 

[Se7en_]

Don't sound boring to me. It sounds like you have four dominant characters, and I will admit sometimes my Dominants can run together a bit too. Not horribly, but certainly a touch.

Yeah I would have to agree, out of my characters only one can be seen as a 'normal' human being. However, I am pretty sure all seven of my characters are dominant, which four are you referring to though?

It is interesting as a topic though. Who are you playing? I'll do one.

'Lucky' Louis/Lugh The Bright One - 'Lucky' Louis is an orphan in 1879 Ireland. He is working to become his villages brew-master and Innkeeper, due to the rapidly declining health (and sobriety) of the former brew-master; Dagda.

The nickname 'lucky' is a misnomer, as for the most part he is anything but. His life is a particular shambles and the addition of some uppity bitch of a noble lady from the kingdoms does not improve his lot. Worse is that she's the most beautiful thing he's ever set eyes on.

Louis has a secret though. He is no mortal man. He is a god trapped and unremembered. Lugh The Bright One, the object of this lady's infatuation and obsession. Come to see his revenge upon those who murdered him. And to learn of the new secrets man has created without gods.

Very interesting idea. I would like to read the thread.

*thinks*

My Unseelie Queen is hot blooded. A sadistic bitch with a deep abiding love for her knight.

My Seelie Fae is naive. Innocent. Unused to human foibles and unaware of the bad things that can happen to women who are far from home.

What's an Unseelie and a Seelie?

They are both Fae (or elves if you will) but the situations they find themselves in would garner quite DIFFERENT reactions. My Seelie Fae would NEVER be able to break her knight's bones...and my Unseelie Queen would never put herself in a position where she would have to trust an unknown mortal male.

I have never really understood why one writes the same sorts of characters over and over. Quite frankly, I write to learn new things about myself. Why would I invent a character that is more myself than not?

Not everyone has a vivid imagination to craft characters that have nothing to do with them or the real world, so that's why a lot of people stick to the comforts and confines of the familiar.

And those are just the first two that I can think of...because they are both based on an idea for a Female Fae.

Let's see...

* a captive fighting elf seeking revenge on her power hungry brother.

* A college student/part time teacher who finds a man whose company she enjoys. A lot.

*a curator of a museum who was sent on a mission to acquire the golden phallus of Osiris.

*A female survivor of a apocalyptic catastrophe whose father dies,leaving her alone to survive and she desires to learn the way of the sword.

*A female detective who runs over a man from the future with her car. That's one of the most interesting ideas I ever read. How did you get that idea?

*A female warrior who leaves her family to avoid her father having to deal out severe punishment to his only daughter.

*A ballet dancer who has lost her dream due to an accident and now must show an athlete that life is not over for him either. Sad

*A feisty female bar owner who is having pressure applied to her so she'll sell her property, in this case, a bar.


Those are my active ones for now.

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread, its getting quite interesting

 

[Se7en_]

- a welsh sorcerous bound to fall in love w/ a roman
- a uptight vampire bound to fall in love w/ a mortal
- a uptight vampire wanting to rule the world with an incubus
- an English noble archaeologicalist whose obsessed with the tale of Lugh
- a feisty mortal in love with a vampire
- a mortal in love w/ a demon
- a princess in love w/ a thief
- a damaged hitchhiker in love w/ a renegade transporter
- a shy timid pure college student whose been in love w/ her best friend whose now become possessed by a demon.
-a princess whose brother was just murdered
-a girl that lives in the frontier with her newly married husband
-a girl that inherited her mothers powers and had to summon a demon to teach her how to use them.
-a woman lost out of time on a deserted island w/ a man from the current time.
-a werewolf that had her boyfriend turned because she couldn't live w/o him
-a graphic artist that's been assigned to a popular graphic novelist. yet she doesn't know he's a vampire.
-and my seventeenth which is being revamped is a girl born into a family of watchers who finds herself orphaned and alone, growing up to be a journalist with a fascination with the dark occult.

I have no idea how you can keep up with all that, but I am going to edit my post and 'borrow' your description of our story

 

[tanja396]

I've got actually 2 running where I do posting. A story and a discussion thread.

 

[Se7en_]

I've got actually 2 running where I do posting. A story and a discussion thread.

Thanks for the post, but by threads here we mean stories not discussion

So what's your character in that story?

 

[DarkWarrioress]

*A female detective who runs over a man from the future with her car. That's one of the most interesting ideas I ever read. How did you get that idea?

Not my idea. I'm his co-writer. The idea is Veroe's.

*A ballet dancer who has lost her dream due to an accident and now must show an athlete that life is not over for him either. Sad

I like to think of it as poignant.

 

[Se7en_]

Not my idea. I'm his co-writer. The idea is Veroe's.

Oh I see, which thread is that?

I like to think of it as poignant.

I think sadness is probably the strongest emotion? Maybe I am wrong, but the most affecting scenes in movies, games, TV shows, novels whatever are the sad scenes. At least that's what I think.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

What's interesting is most of my characters are meant to be more than me, bigger, better, faster...what have you. I think that is why I write the types of stories I do~ sci-fi, fantasy, BDSM, whatever.

I feel limited by real world things. Especially when I try to base things in the here and now. (Like the thread that I am writing with Last Rider about a woman who decides to seduce her best friend's son.) It isn't a concept I am at all comfortable with and obviously, keeping it to the here and now is a must do. (Luckily for me Rider is an awesome writer, otherwise I think I would die of mortification because it is a real world story)

*shrugs*

I think every character created starts off as an adjunct of the writer's personality but eventually, they grow and change, become something different, reacting to situations in ways we (as real people) wouldn't/couldn't do. (At least that is how it works for me.) Sometimes I prefer to skip right to that point, inventing characters that don't match me at all. (Even so, some bits of me are always there~my penchant for sadistic behavior, my queerness, my Toppish tendencies. It's just the story line dictates that I not USE those aspects.)

Also~

Unseelie would be the Elves/Fairies/goblins of a more *supposed* evil bent. Not friendly with mortal kind at all. More apt to kill or harm with no thought.

Seelie would be the *good* Fairies. Tatiana/Oberon. More friendly with human kind (think brownies that help the shoemaker in the fairy tale) or at least not so hell bent on killing humans out right.

Did that help?

 

[DarkWarrioress]

Originally Posted by DarkWarrioress View Post
Not my idea. I'm his co-writer. The idea is Veroe's.

Oh I see, which thread is that?

I like to think of it as poignant.

I think sadness is probably the strongest emotion? Maybe I am wrong, but the most affecting scenes in movies, games, TV shows, novels whatever are the sad scenes. At least that's what I think.

The thread is called, Time Tracker.

Emotions in general, I believe are motivating and captivating in anything whether it be in movies, books or humans. Without them, we are nothing and so is anything else for that matter.

As a writer, I like to dive head first into angst (or sex) and see what I can mold with it.

 

[Vail_Indigo]

QFT
For me, my characters have to be bigger/better/whatever than me because I want to put them in stranger, more problematic worlds than me. In some way, at least.
Or, as I've put it, at least a few degrees off.

What's interesting is most of my characters are meant to be more than me, bigger, better, faster...what have you. I think that is why I write the types of stories I do~ sci-fi, fantasy, BDSM, whatever.

I feel limited by real world things. Especially when I try to base things in the here and now. (Like the thread that I am writing with Last Rider about a woman who decides to seduce her best friend's son.) It isn't a concept I am at all comfortable with and obviously, keeping it to the here and now is a must do. (Luckily for me Rider is an awesome writer, otherwise I think I would die of mortification because it is a real world story)

*shrugs*

I think every character created starts off as an adjunct of the writer's personality but eventually, they grow and change, become something different, reacting to situations in ways we (as real people) wouldn't/couldn't do. (At least that is how it works for me.) Sometimes I prefer to skip right to that point, inventing characters that don't match me at all. (Even so, some bits of me are always there~my penchant for sadistic behavior, my queerness, my Toppish tendencies. It's just the story line dictates that I not USE those aspects.)

Also~

Unseelie would be the Elves/Fairies/goblins of a more *supposed* evil bent. Not friendly with mortal kind at all. More apt to kill or harm with no thought.

Seelie would be the *good* Fairies. Tatiana/Oberon. More friendly with human kind (think brownies that help the shoemaker in the fairy tale) or at least not so hell bent on killing humans out right.

Did that help?

 

[Vail_Indigo]

not that I have anything to write these days...

 

[Se7en_]

Unseelie would be the Elves/Fairies/goblins of a more *supposed* evil bent. Not friendly with mortal kind at all. More apt to kill or harm with no thought.

Seelie would be the *good* Fairies. Tatiana/Oberon. More friendly with human kind (think brownies that help the shoemaker in the fairy tale) or at least not so hell bent on killing humans out right.

Did that help?

Yeah kind of, thanks

As for stronger, better characters, that makes perfect sense. Most of us, if not all, live normal workaday boring lives, and a good portion of the people here come to experience a different reality, whether just sexually or completely, so trying to make characters that are very different from us certainly makes sense as long as you have the creativity to do it properly, and sadly not everyone has that talent.

The thread is called, Time Tracker.

Emotions in general, I believe are motivating and captivating in anything whether it be in movies, books or humans. Without them, we are nothing and so is anything else for that matter.

As a writer, I like to dive head first into angst (or sex) and see what I can mold with it.

Will put it on my 'to read list', thanks

I also agree with your opinion of emotions, without them we are no different than inanimate objects.

 

[Aggie2012]

I just may have to up my ante to 6, lol

 

[Se7en_]

I just may have to up my ante to 6, lol

LOL getting jealous of those with 10+ threads are we?

 

[Aggie2012]

LOL getting jealous of those with 10+ threads are we?

lol, noooooo..

ok, maybe

 

[Se7en_]

lol, noooooo..

ok, maybe

LOL, envy rears its ugly head, so what's stopping you? go get more threads!

 

[Aggie2012]

LOL, envy rears its ugly head, so what's stopping you? go get more threads!

No one wants to write with me. Simple.

 

[Se7en_]

No one wants to write with me. Simple.

Really? What makes you think so?

 

[Aggie2012]

Really? What makes you think so?

I ask, they say no.

Like I said, simple. lol it's ok though, it'll happen soon enough.

I'm patient...

 

[DarkWarrioress]

No one wants to write with me. Simple.

Aw, Aggie. I don't believe that. I think it's just a matter of coming up with ideas that will catch someone's fancy.

 

[Se7en_]

I ask, they say no.

Like I said, simple. lol it's ok though, it'll happen soon enough.

I'm patient...

Oh poor you

Well its a matter of time, hunt around and present ideas.

 

[Aggie2012]

Aw, Aggie. I don't believe that. I think it's just a matter of coming up with ideas that will catch someone's fancy.

Thanks! Maybe once I'm part of the in crowd, it'll become easier to. It's also hard to get writing partners if they go off by the stories you've posted so far too.. I mean, look at my history, it's showing short responses to some stories and if go off that one would aotomatically think "she doesn't write enough in her responses"

OR if they have to get permission from their 'significant other' before writing...

 

[DarkWarrioress]

There really isn't an "in" crowd, hun. It's a matter of how comfortable you feel and then starting your own thread, somewhere to scribble your story ideas so people can read them. It's a combination, I think, what your writing style shows and what you post for ideas. There's places here in the lounge where you can do short scenes with people as well. That will give others an idea of your writing style too.

Cait~

Thanks! Maybe once I'm part of the in crowd, it'll become easier to. It's also hard to get writing partners if they go off by the stories you've posted so far too.. I mean, look at my history, it's showing short responses to some stories and if go off that one would aotomatically think "she doesn't write enough in her responses"

OR if they have to get permission from their 'significant other' before writing...

 

[Se7en_]

There really isn't an "in" crowd, hun. It's a matter of how comfortable you feel and then starting your own thread, somewhere to scribble your story ideas so people can read them. It's a combination, I think, what your writing style shows and what you post for ideas. There's places here in the lounge where you can do short scenes with people as well. That will give others an idea of your writing style too.

Cait~

I think an SRP profile helps a lot as well.

I never thought about making an idea thread, is that done in the lounge or somewhere else?

 

[Aggie2012]

There really isn't an "in" crowd, hun. It's a matter of how comfortable you feel and then starting your own thread, somewhere to scribble your story ideas so people can read them. It's a combination, I think, what your writing style shows and what you post for ideas. There's places here in the lounge where you can do short scenes with people as well. That will give others an idea of your writing style too.

Cait~

That's true too. I do have some ideas, but from what I see, they're being done to death (ome really badly, if I may add as MHO).

*stomps foot* I wanna be different damnit!! lol