Characters you've loved - or hated

[LitRiter]

Does anyone have a (fictional) character that they've written that they've absolutely loved? There are a couple of characters I've written who I would really like to "go have a beer with".

Conversely, there have been characters that I've written who I've despised beyond words. Their sections in the stories became smaller and smaller for the simple reason that, while they might be important to the plot, I couldn't stand them.

I'm curious for two reasons. First, just to see what the general consensus is, and second, to see if I'm actually borderline psychotic to have all of these voices in my head telling me stories.

If I'm mad, don't tell me...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I don't write about people I can't stand unless it's to do them serious damage. I'd happily go out for a beer with all my male characters and to bed with all my female ones.

However, if I had to really chose one above all, in each category, I'd go do the town up right with a couple of characters from the two novels-in-progress that I've got going. Clarence Washington is physically one of Nature's fullbacks. He's African-American, a graduate mechanical engineer, cheerfully polyamorous and given to playing the 'good ol' boy' role. However, he's a whole lot smarter than he lets on.

My fictional love is Edith Sondheim, Ph.D. She's the Chair of the Women's Studies Department at Central University, nominally located in Kentucky somewhere. She's an ardent feminist and ethical slut. The woman is given to running the lives of everyone around her and taking most of them to bed, as well. Clarence is one of her favorites, as is his wife Myrna.

 

[penandpaper]

Among other authors, I have to say I loved Drizzt Do'urden. His solitude and bad-ass ways was perfect as a teen. Now, I find gray in them all - and often, even in the bad guys.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Love quite a few of my characters. Some make me hate real people

Hate some just as much.

I find the voices normal. Didn't always think so. Talking to other writers helped. My best stories are those were the characters won't leave me alone. Much easier to write. The ones were I have to plot out and drudge through are harder. Doable, but I ofter curse the lazy characters for not getting of their damn asses and telling me what they want.

 

[TxRad]

You have to listen to the voices to be a writer. Acting on what they say is a whole other story.

 

[LitRiter]

You have to listen to the voices to be a writer. Acting on what they say is a whole other story.

The problem I'm having right now is that I'm writing a story where I've developed the plot pretty completely and then dropped the characters into it. This worked pretty well for my story, The Road Home, although they changed the freaking ending on me (theirs was better, damn it).

Unfortunately, in my current story, an EROTIC sci-fi thriller, my heroine doesn't want to be intimate with any of the other characters. I put the situations together, and the little, er, heroine keeps making teasing, flirty comments and dancing away.

I know I could force it, but it would be pretty obvious I was doing so and would badly effect the story's characterizations.

It was so much easier with Best Friends Forever. For that one I just let the characters tell me their stories, and it's probably the biggest hit I've had so far.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Only one - The Insane Porn and Mystery Writer, Jenny Jackson. She always pisses me off.

 

[Boota]

I've never hated any of my characters. Even the villains. Maybe it's just their necessity to the work makes them something more for me. I've even got a couple where the bad guy is the star. One of them here on Lit. (A non-sex story.) Now, in real life, I would hate these people immensely.