Supporting Characters?

[Kantarii]

Have you ever considered doing a spin off from your main storyline with one of the supporting characters from one of your stories?

I have gotten a few private messages from people asking me to do a short side story with "Brenda" from my storyline "A Slut's Triangle". Now, in the story I use Brenda's wit and sarcasm to compliment Ashleigh and keep her steered in a direction I want the story to go in. I have never seen many spin offs as successful as the main storyline........ The last spin off of interest to me was the Penguins of Madagascar, but only for a short time.

 

[oggbashan]

Yes. I have done that several times with my Silverbridge stories, particularly the ones set in a mythical 19th Century India.

When I started the Silverbridge stories about twenty years ago I intended to write about all the members of the Silverbridge Ladies Football Team - The Silver Vixens. There are 11 members of a football team and substitutes so I thought I might write about 18 or so women.

I haven't - yet.

 

[EverLux]

Just last night, I decided I want to do a spinoff of my EC series with one of the "villains." Poor girl is only eighteen. She shouldn't have to carry the psycho-bitch label around for the rest of her life.
I'm thinking she goes to college and falls for a professor--maybe a strong Dom who can help guide her to being the better person she wants to be.

*runs off to start an outline*

 

[Kantarii]

Just last night, I decided I want to do a spinoff of my EC series with one of the "villains." Poor girl is only eighteen. She shouldn't have to carry the psycho-bitch label around for the rest of her life.
I'm thinking she goes to college and falls for a professor--maybe a strong Dom who can help guide her to being the better person she wants to be.

*runs off to start an outline*

Psycho-bitch? Damn! It has been a minute since I've hear that term. I can't wait to unleash Brenda's vengeful side in my storyline to push Ashleigh over the line to abandon Kryss...... where's my note pad? I have another wicked idea

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, I do that.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yes. Some are in the works.

 

[EverLux]

Psycho-bitch? Damn! It has been a minute since I've hear that term. I can't wait to unleash Brenda's vengeful side in my storyline to push Ashleigh over the line to abandon Kryss...... where's my note pad? I have another wicked idea

LOL That's me--always breaking out the old school shit. I am so using "gank" in my next story!

 

[Kantarii]

LOL That's me--always breaking out the old school shit. I am so using "gank" in my next story!

Hahaha... Yup, that's old school shit right there. Right up there with snaking someone's shit or having a dead beat running around in the storyline....I'm looking for the opportune time to have someone woodoozled or bamboozled in one of my stories.. Haha

 

[Hypoxia]

A couple of series (A Taste of Incest: Lemonade and Black & White & Red All Over) grew from one-shots, with three main characters; the sequels / spinoffs has each player continue the tale from their POV. I may use a main character from one storyline as a supporting player in another; is that a spin-on or -in, not a spin-off?

I feel I must be careful about promoting supporting players to main characters. Many of those spear-carriers are based on real people with complex histories. I don't necessarily want to get too far inside their heads. But I can think of a few good candidates. Stay tuned.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Fairly regularly. I find my little universe is inter-connected, with characters running between stories; bit parts in one, lead role in another, going backwards and forwards in time and their illogical interconnections. Probably because my male characters are mostly variations of me at different times, and I've either known the women or wanted to know the women. Fantasy and truth likewise interweave.

 

[Kantarii]

Fairly regularly. I find my little universe is inter-connected, with characters running between stories; bit parts in one, lead role in another, going backwards and forwards in time and their illogical interconnections. Probably because my male characters are mostly variations of me at different times, and I've either known the women or wanted to know the women. Fantasy and truth likewise interweave.

Reminds me of my quote..." There's a fine line between fantasy and reality; a line that represents not a wall, but a bridge - I'm free to cross at any time.Kant

 

[oggbashan]

Reminds me of my quote..." There's a fine line between fantasy and reality; a line that represents not a wall, but a bridge - I'm free to cross at any time.Kant

That reminded me of my irritation with feedback on my story The Valkyries. Anonymous didn't like my version of Bifrost Bridge because it was 'unreal' i.e. it didn't match a movie he had seen that portrayed the Norse Gods.

 

[EverLux]

That reminded me of my irritation with feedback on my story The Valkyries. Anonymous didn't like my version of Bifrost Bridge because it was 'unreal' i.e. it didn't match a movie he had seen that portrayed the Norse Gods.

How helpful! I hope he gave you the name of the movie, so you can watch it and correct your story.

 

[lovecraft68]

several years ago I created a character "Abigail Lefay" she was supposed to just be someone I created for a one time appearance in my SWB series.

She got into my head and appeared again in the finale of that series and this time in a bigger and darker role. But that wasn't enough and I've published a full length novel with her and working on the sequel now.

 

[Hypoxia]

...There's a fine line between fantasy and reality; a line that represents not a wall, but a bridge - I'm free to cross at any time.

Is it a drawbridge or toll bridge? Is there a troll under the bridge, alligators in the stream beneath, or a bottomless chasm? I'm reminded of the report that a bridge collapsed on an old mountain road from San Diego to the Salton Sea. The county put up a BRIDGE OUT sign. But after a few years, nobody had driven off the edge, so they took the sign down.

But I digress. I can see some supporting characters as bridges between distinct plotlines. I've done that a couple times without promoting the spear-carriers to major status anywhere. I have unrelated (other than their neighborhood) tales that include a certain tavern and its crusty waitress / barmaid. Will she ever have her own story to tell? I dunno.

 

[beachbum1958]

My story worlds frequently intersect, and characters who appeared briefly in one story might end up having their own story told, or crossing-over to another of my worlds, and becoming a feature player there, so yes, I like to develop bit-players' in their own spin-offs.

 

[Kantarii]

My story worlds frequently intersect, and characters who appeared briefly in one story might end up having their own story told, or crossing-over to another of my worlds, and becoming a feature player there, so yes, I like to develop bit-players' in their own spin-offs.

I cross some elements of my stories into other stories. The Chamber is a fetish type bar in Atlanta. I have used it in two of my storylines but only briefly in "The Diablo Masqurade". The bartender in TDM is Rhonda which is a toned down version of Brenda in "A Slut's Triangle". Brenda's character in AST is actually based on a very good friend of mine online and in AST she is accurately detailed 100%

 

[GoldenCojones]

I did that with my worst scoring best story "Lilly Wants a Baby" Lilly was a side character in one of my top scoring stories "Coke Makes Everyone Cum" Now I'm about to submit a spin-off of "Lilly Wants a Baby" that uses Chad, a minor character in the Lilly story as the main character. What's funny is now that I've edited it, I think it's going in Romance.

Image that! I wrote a fucking Romance story. Hey at least "Lilly Wants a Baby" won't be my lowest scoring story anymore

 

[Kantarii]

Hey, guess I'll unbury and resurrect this thread since I'm nearing completion on my storyline "A Slut's Triangle" and the thought has crossed my mind again.

 

[GoldenCojones]

Hey, guess I'll unbury and resurrect this thread since I'm nearing completion on my storyline "A Slut's Triangle" and the thought has crossed my mind again.

Since you are unburying the thread ... I wrote another one of these called "Denise's Descent" It is now my lowest scoring story I'm starting to think people don't like what I do to "their" characters

 

[Kantarii]

Since you are unburying the thread ... I wrote another one of these called "Denise's Descent" It is now my lowest scoring story I'm starting to think people don't like what I do to "their" characters

Hahaha..., "their" characters. Oh, you mean the characters in your story that have kinks and fetishes they can relate to, but don't act like the poeple in real life. I thought that was looped under an umbrella term called "fictional" fantasy writing. Damn, I must have missed that class somewhere between college, the Army, two failed marriages and a night in the county jail... hahaKant

 

[OmnislashXX]

There's a personal maid to the Princess in the Princess/Adventurer story I'm writing about (and maybe one day will finish) who mentions about how the maids all know how to score extra food/goodies from the castle chef (who doesn't make an actual appearance in the story) by flirting with him or flashing him a bit of "fanservice".

This lead to me thinking up a side story about that maid and the cook. Maybe one day I'll write it.

 

[49greg]

I've got several stories taking place in the same small Northern Iowa town, and had wanted to do crossovers of characters, but so far the only one I've done is to use the main characters of one story in a throwaway "bit part" in an other story.

However, in my mind, a main character in the second story I posted here on LIt, is a secondary character in a multi chapter story I did later. But since I never mentioned names in the first story, it's only in my mind that the two stories are connected.

 

[HandsInTheDark]

Two characters from Toymaker got their own story in Angelwatch. The group of scientists in Becoming Marie got passing mention in at least 2 other stories of mine, but no appearances. A drug I invented for Drug Trail became the major plot device in several other stories. An (eventual) couple in Chosen have shown up in Industry in Crisis. I borrow characters and settings and plot hooks from myself all the time. I can't help it. Oddly, it wasn't my intention when I started; but at this point a lot of my stories have connecting strands.

I'm not so much trying to save effort by reusing things - it's more I just like little subtle connections and passing references; I like it when readers have little "oh my gosh I see what this means" moments in my stories. What fun is a house without a few secret doors?

 

[GoldenCojones]

Hahaha..., "their" characters. Oh, you mean the characters in your story that have kinks and fetishes they can relate to, but don't act like the poeple in real life. I thought that was looped under an umbrella term called "fictional" fantasy writing. Damn, I must have missed that class somewhere between college, the Army, two failed marriages and a night in the county jail... hahaKant

Wow, you have lived! I'm sure that gives you lots of writing material.

But yeah, I got a very long email feedback rant about "Denise's Descent" that stated, Denise was such a wonderful person in "Chad's Choice" and I ruined her. Never mind there were hints of her true nature in "Chad's Choice" and I always intended for the story to be exactly what I made it. But they liked Denise and didn't like what I did to her.

I am going to write the next chapter. I'm sure the trolls will hate it and some of my readers will tell me they don't like how I'm ending it, but I'm also sure that, just like with "Denise's Descent", I'll receive many more positive feedback emails than negative comments. That is the way it works for me. Trolls and haters post the most comments on the story but by and large I get more positive email feedback than negative comments.