Characters taking over

[TheWritingGroup]

In the author note for "Wager", I explain that Maureen just refused to go away after I cut her out of "Pranked". That story and its currently-an-outline sequel exist to just make Maureen shut up and stop telling me her story.

So in the current WIP, I just realized that a ponygirl I never even had in my outline has taken up half the word count. I think she's almost ready to leave, though. I do want to have time for the story I planned to tell ....

Any other authors have characters who just insist on being storytold?

-Annie

 

[SavannaT]

My first piece of erotic fiction started like this, i just wanted to tell a story, I modeled the main character after me but the story was a married woman being stalked on her vacation but all she wanted to do was fuck her stalker, so she did and the rest of the story flowed better lol

 

[gunhilltrain]

In the author note for "Wager", I explain that Maureen just refused to go away after I cut her out of "Pranked". That story and its currently-an-outline sequel exist to just make Maureen shut up and stop telling me her story.

So in the current WIP, I just realized that a ponygirl I never even had in my outline has taken up half the word count. I think she's almost ready to leave, though. I do want to have time for the story I planned to tell ....

Any other authors have characters who just insist on being storytold?

-Annie

It's really you realizing that you have something good going, and you didn't know before hand that you wanted to keep going with the character. Yes, it happens a lot and it is probably a good thing.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

It's really you realizing that you have something good going, and you didn't know before hand that you wanted to keep going with the character. Yes, it happens a lot and it is probably a good thing.

OK, apparently I have to say this: of course, I know my characters aren't really possessing my body and forcing me to type. I'm a metaphor-using writer. It's a metaphor.

-Annie

 

[Rob_Royale]

I introduced a very matriarchal and oversexed family in my stories Pretty Please and Strange Flowers. The mom/dad mature couple, Cookie and Mark are nudists and swingers and they have many more adventures that need to be written. Or so they have told me.

 

[Voboy]

This happens to me all the time. Every story I write is like this.

 

[THBGato]

Amanda was a well intentioned if mildly irritating side character in Love is a Place. She ended up being the co-protagonist in my 87 thousand word Eve & Lucy.

Which, like, because, I'd, like, given her this really, like, irritating speech pattern in Love is a Place, had to, like, stick with it, like, for, like, a whole novel, you know? (On the plus side, I got loads of comments telling me how much they loved the story but hated her speech!)

 

[mildlyaroused]

Amanda was a well intentioned if mildly irritating side character in Love is a Place. She ended up being the co-protagonist in my 87 thousand word Eve & Lucy.

Which, like, because, I'd, like, given her this really, like, irritating speech pattern in Love is a Place, had to, like, stick with it, like, for, like, a whole novel, you know? (On the plus side, I got loads of comments telling me how much they loved the story but hated her speech!)

Stutters, speech impairments, or very strong accents are always so hard to write. You want to be authentic, but you don't want to give the reader a stutter by proxy. It's tough!

 

[LonRivers]

I would suggest a side story or another story altogether based on that character. It could be interesting. I have characters that I only wanted as a simple one-shot deal that turned out to be significant characters because I gave them too much "character" and they grew on me.

 

[Erozetta]

Isn't this what characters are supposed to do?

 

[AchtungNight]

Clarke in Debrief did this to me. I even parodied it by having him barge into the bedroom of my avatar late at night and start telling his story. Other characters did similar things on various occasions, to the point where I promised many of them stories and sex scenes just to get them to wait their turn. The most prominent female characters with the issue were Angie (Running Down a Dream, Love Amidst the Storm, First Time Jitters) and Kathleen (Bad Connections, Courtney Crowe). My Pathfinder and God of War stories are the biggest fanfic examples, along with the whole Passion series for a Celebrity Crush story.

 

[StillStunned]

As I detailed in WIWAW: Too Cold Not to Fuck, my foray into I/T was supposed to be a one-off. But Sal - the narrator's tiny twin sister - was too interesting to drop on the big pile of "done".

To quote the WIWAW, "Because these characters are figments of our imagination, we write them in ways that are interesting to us. And because of that, we want to write more. It's a circular process. We write what we enjoy, and because we enjoy it, we want to write more."

 

[gunhilltrain]

OK, apparently I have to say this: of course, I know my characters aren't really possessing my body and forcing me to type. I'm a metaphor-using writer. It's a metaphor.

-Annie

Oh sure, I thought you were asking for some kind of advice or why this is happening. Actually, your specific question was, "Any other authors have characters who just insist on being storytold?" Yes it has. Some people above gave examples from their own work. The Nora Meara character (I suppose you could look up my stories for the plots) started as a stand-alone story and has grown into two series by now plus several individual stories. Some are narrated by her, while others are narrated by a guy at her college. I always seem to have some new angle on her to write about.