Anyone ever fall in love with one of their characters?

[soflabbwlvr]

I wouldn't call it love. I mean, love should be reciprocated, right? We dated for several months, and even though we never promised each other exclusivity, well, let's just say she got around. Dozens of different men--all day and all night. At first it was exciting, you know, that she was so popular and I was associated with her. I guess I could say my image benefited from all the attention shown to her. But there were just so many men! And the things they did with her. Finally, I couldn't take any more. I did what any other man would have done. I suppose I could have killed her off. That would have been easy enough, and I know I could have gotten away with it. It would have been so simple. But my pain was too deep for that. My solution had to fit the crime. I knew what I had to do. And one night, all alone in my office, I did it. I deleted her. Not just from my life, but from the universe. Now, she is but a painful memory.

 

[sr71plt]

Why can't love go one way? Isn't that the dilemma of a whole lot of stories?

 

[lovecraft68]

Am I the only person here who is convinced that if someone started a thread about Charles Manson that Pilot would say he was the one who gave Charles the idea for Helter Skelter because he was humming it when they went out to the Sharon Tate film festival together?

 

[Tricialen]

I wouldn't call it love. I mean, love should be reciprocated, right? We dated for several months, and even though we never promised each other exclusivity, well, let's just say she got around. Dozens of different men--all day and all night. At first it was exciting, you know, that she was so popular and I was associated with her. I guess I could say my image benefited from all the attention shown to her. But there were just so many men! And the things they did with her. Finally, I couldn't take any more. I did what any other man would have done. I suppose I could have killed her off. That would have been easy enough, and I know I could have gotten away with it. It would have been so simple. But my pain was too deep for that. My solution had to fit the crime. I knew what I had to do. And one night, all alone in my office, I did it. I deleted her. Not just from my life, but from the universe. Now, she is but a painful memory.

I always fall in love with the characters I create. How else can you breathe life into them?

 

[lovecraft68]

I always fall in love with the characters I create. How else can you greater life into them?

Same can be said of villains. How better to create a truly detestable villain than to model them with qualities you hate?

 

[sr71plt]

Am I the only person here who is convinced that if someone started a thread about Charles Manson that Pilot would say he was the one who gave Charles the idea for Helter Skelter because he was humming it when they went out to the Sharon Tate film festival together?


Oh, I imagine anyone topping out working in a warehouse and never having stuck his nose out of Rhode Island would think that. It's a small life and jealousy issue.

squeal, squeal, little piggy.

 

[JKendallDane]

I always fall in love with the characters I create. How else can you greater life into them?

Since I primarily write GM romance series, falling in love with a character is part of the muse for me. Figure the same can easily be said about authors of hetero romance stories.

I think one the best emails I ever received was asking if the particular story was a personal recounting because the emotions were so intense and detailed that the reader had FELT the love come off the pages and couldn't believe it was simply created fiction.

 

[PennLady]

I like my characters very much, but I would never say I've fallen in love with any of them. Sometimes I think I'm a much more distant writer, or something, than many.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I like my characters very much, but I would never say I've fallen in love with any of them. Sometimes I think I'm a much more distant writer, or something, than many.

Similar response, in all honesty. Truth is, though, just enough of each character has to be part me that the rest can grow out of (how can you create something from nothing?), and I'm far from Narcissistic enough to fall in love with myself.

To me Springer is 100 times more credible than that ambulance chasing con artist who owes his entire career to Oprah.

But man would I love a half hour with him. fuck his mind up really good

I am not kidding about the con artist part. Read up on him arrested in the 70's for bilking people out of money.

Honestly, it's Dr. Drew that irks me. The show was often on in the break room after I'm done with work and waiting on my transportation; I cannot count how many times this man interrupted his guest(s) to put words in their mouths.

AT least Phil, in Scary Movie 3, admitted he was really a plumber (funniest part of a pretty funny dumb movie).

Q_C

p.s. Yellow print makes my head hurt.

 

[MSTarot]

p.s. Yellow print makes my head hurt.

I can't read a word of it without leaning in to the monitor. I kind of see it as LC whispering.

It's like an E.F.Hutton commercial.


MST

 

[JKendallDane]

I can't read a word of it without leaning in to the monitor. I kind of see it as LC whispering.

It's like an E.F.Hutton commercial.


MST

Left click and hold while you slide the cursor over the words. Magically they will appear.

 

[PennLady]

Left click and hold while you slide the cursor over the words. Magically they will appear.

Except on my computer, I get a light blue background over the yellow words, which is worse than the yellow on gray.

 

[MSTarot]

Left click and hold while you slide the cursor over the words. Magically they will appear.

Well, damned if they wont. Thank you, I would have never thought of that. Not a computer person.

 

[THROBBS]

we tend to conjure what we desire...



and what we think about, obsess about, wonder about...

 

[Swilly]

Love and desire are not always the same thing.

I just finished the last part of a three part story. I've had a difficult time focusing on anything this week other than the incredible woman I created.

Hmmm. That's an interesting idea for a different story. A fantasy involving magic somehow.

 

[SecondCircle]

Fell in love with a character? Hmm. Yes. Definitely.

It was a story nonerotic that currently collects dust and viruses in the dark spaces of my computer. It was a character that I'd really grown to like, one that wrote herself and just took off. I don't know if I grew to love her as a daughter (watching her grow) a sister, or otherwise, but she held a place in my heart for sure.

And I killed her.

I... was actually shocked. It was the sensible end to the story and tied its theme up nicely. Well, horribly but the story was better. For like a week I kinda moped around in a daze, actually saddened by the loss of a character! I still don't know if I forgive myself for it.

Several have read the story. A friend of my wife's cried, and another guy simply handed me the hard drive and said, "fuck you dude." But they thought it was great so I guess it worked out.

She wasn't the only character I liked that much, but she's the one that comes to mind. The one that got away....

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Too weird.

 

[THROBBS]

Love and desire are not always the same thing.

...

No, of course not.

 

[WishItsTrue_TG]

I've recently written and submitted the first installment of a story, and I'm working on the second installment. I swear I think I've fallen in love with one of the characters. I suppose this isn't so unusual, because ideas for characters and events often come from out minds and hearts and past experiences. But still. Crazy.

I have. I wrote a series of stories that followed the lives of several characters, and when I killed off some of the main characters in the 4th. installment, I couldn't live without them. I just couldn't let them go. So I wrote another story, and resurrected them as teenagers, just so I could bring them back to life. I had a hell of job sandwiching them between the previously existing stories.