Characters

[Croctden]

Are you characters based off people you know? Have you ever made a character and started thinking of them as friend or an asshole as if they were real? Where are my pills god damn it!

 

[flawed_ethics]

My characters are based off people I know, in a loose way. Maybe that's why I think they're better than they actually are. In my larger stories, they're composites. A little of the libido of one person mixed with the emotional turmoil of another.

As for your pills, check the refidgerator. Or your pennyloafers. I forget which.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I make it a point NEVER to base my characters on real people. Those people in RL that I don't like - I don't want them soiling my nice stories with their presence. And those people I do like - I don't want to associate them with porn! And I'm also afraid that some people I know will recognize themselves in my stories and be offended ("I would NEVER say something like that!"), so I always make sure to stay far away from RL people. If someone DOES recognize himself/herself in a made-up character, that's their problem.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

A few of my storires are somewhat based on my RL experiences, so, yes some characters are real. If I want to use a RL person in a story I will ask them first if it is okay. I wouldn't use anyone who I didn't like or find attractive, that would make it hard to write the sex scenes IMO. In other stories I have taken parts of different people and wove them together to make a character suitable to my fantasy.


Wicked

 

[Sabledrake]

I find inspiration in real people and events, but I rarely base a character wholly on a real person on purpose. I take bits and pieces and recombine them. Me and Victor Frankenstein, baby!

As for considering them friends or assholes, oh, absolutely! I've written some characters that I utterly adore, and some I wish I could slap upside the head.

Sabledrake

 

[deliciously_naughty]

Do I ever think of my characters as real people? Well, the only reason I'm writing a novel is because one of my short story characters wouldn't get out of my head and stop talking at me.

Do I base them on real people? Yes, many of them are based on real people...but that's based, not actual copies of people.

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

Most of my characters are pretty cliche. Male characters appear in my longer stories and are based around whatever is in my head at the time; often the 'hero' is kinda the guy I want to be at the time I start writing the story. (call it a kind of insecurity).

Female characters are sometimes physically based on real people, maybe someone who caught my eye, a girl in a film, hell some of my best characters came out of models in clothes catalogs!!

Mentally tho I rarely base a character on a real person. Probably I take snippets of people from here and there without realising it, but mostly they're make-believe. There are few people in the world as fucked up as my favourite characters.

Oh, and I never want to smack up my characters. Not even the really nasty ones. In order to write them properly, I have to understand them, find out what it is that makes that how they are, and I find it very difficult to hate anyone I understand. The best example of this is in my one and only story here as it describes the process that made the nasty character so evil (damn did I just spoil the plot )

ax

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Female characters are sometimes physically based on real people, maybe someone who caught my eye, a girl in a film, hell some of my best characters came out of models in clothes catalogs!!

"Page 48 wrapped her long legs around my waist..."

 

[pop_54]

Yep

I use a lot of real names, that is names of people I know well enough to take such a liberty without risk of offending anyone.
I have based most of my stories on real life events as well, loosely based in some cases, pretty damn close in others.
When I use the real names I just jugle them about to match the characters of the tale.

In one story the characters were based on real people and something they did years ago, when he saw the draft the main character asked why I'd changed his name and insisted I re-write it with his and his wifes real names included. So I did.

pops...................

 

[TrinaT]

I also base my characters on either people I've known or that are known by others. The keyword being "based." I've only once used people's real first names but having said that, the situation or story would not be misconstrued in any way to be derogatory or cause them any harm. In most cases though, I do change names and places to protect the innocent so to speak.

TrinaT

 

[Pookie]

My characters' personalities are usually based on people I know. I also use experiences I have had along with those of friends in my stories. But there is a great deal of fiction added to the stories as well.

Pookie

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

"Page 48 wrapped her long legs around my waist..."

You just stole my favourite fantasy!

 

[TheEarl]

Someone I know asked whether I could use her name in one of my stories. She knew I wrote and that I'd had them published 'somewhere on the internet' but doesn't know the subject matter. Let's hope she doesn't find me.

The Earl

 

[Chicklet]

Actually, I write a lot of assholes into my stories. I think the best way to get the character to change is to have the female character be with a really idiot asshole guy, and then sort of find a way around him by the end of the story. One story frustrated me so much, because instead of having the girl leave the bastard, I needed her to really want to please him. I was freaking out, ranting at people "MY CHARACTERS HAVE ISSUES" so yes, I think I do think of them as real people.

-Chicklet

 

[Cybotic]

Most of my characters develop their personality throughout the course of the story. They almost have to let me know what they're like. Sometimes, they remind me of people I know in real life, but it's the same as if one real person reminds me of another.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

You just stole my favourite fantasy!

Awww, don't feel bad! I'll make it up to you with a whole new one!

"Page 48 worked her way down on me, when page 65 walked in on us. Instead of screaming or running away, she gave me a wicked smile, and came closer, holding page 9 from the Sextoys R' Us catalogue in her hand..."

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

Are you characters based off people you know? Have you ever made a character and started thinking of them as friend or an asshole as if they were real? Where are my pills god damn it!

|
(Wish I could break that quote apart into three sections
Like people do on Usenet.)
1 Whadya mean "based on"? I like to say "I take small
bites." This means that I might take one characteristic
from one RL person, often someone not too close to me.
I might take another characteristic of the same character
from another person. Or I might notice a pattern in
several people I know in different settings, and write
a character who fits that pattern.
2 Several of my characters are my inner friends. Why not?
I know them better than most people in RL; know their inner
thoughts as I can't know anyone else's in RL.
3 Dunno about your pills. Have you tried the top of the
'fridge?

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Are usually just shells anyway, brief descriptions made to look like real people from far enough away. When I write my characters, they're usually based solely on a single impression left by a solitary person, on which the character is "based." I use the terms based very loosely, as a single impression, especially if it's the First Impression, has nothing to do with the person leaving that impression. It's just a single moment where that person is someone to you that they truly never really were.
That's where most of my characters come from. Usually, when I base my characters on people closer to me, who've left more than one impression, or have soiled thier initial impression with more realistic behavior, the characters that result are less defined and more confused.

 

[MathGirl]

Characters, limited use of

In my works, I tend to reduce "characters" to the bare, essential minimum. There are always two characters. They have the following attributes which are sine qua non:

1. One character has an erection.
2. The other character is of the female persuasion.

I realize that this is paring things to the bare minimum for smut, but it allows me to proceed without the nuisances of things like plot, dialogue, and other nonessentials.

MG

 

[Antinomy]

Re: Re: Characters

Wish I could break that quote apart

You can,

into three sections

just learn how

Like people do on Usenet.

to use the quote tags.

 

[wildsweetone]

Are you characters based off people you know? Have you ever made a character and started thinking of them as friend or an asshole as if they were real? Where are my pills god damn it!

My characters are not consciously based off anyone I know. They turn up fully formed (I know what they look like) and it's only as I write their story that I discover their mannerisms.

As for the asshole comment, oh yes. The clearness of the character and their nastiness certainly gets my heart beating faster. I discover after writing about a bad guy, that my fingers are really sore and realise that I must have been typing at near warp speed. *smile* I love it when that happens.

 

[KillerMuffin]

As I state in my story Lancie Pants (if you haven't read it, Pook, you'll get a giggle), Any resemblance to anyone you think you might know living in cyberspace is really just your imagination. All characters in this story are completely fictional.

 

[Pookie]

As I state in my story Lancie Pants (if you haven't read it, Pook, you'll get a giggle), Any resemblance to anyone you think you might know living in cyberspace is really just your imagination. All characters in this story are completely fictional.

I did enjoy that story. I so love your imagination.

 

[Croctden]

This what I was driving at

Actually, I write a lot of assholes into my stories. I think the best way to get the character to change is to have the female character be with a really idiot asshole guy, and then sort of find a way around him by the end of the story. One story frustrated me so much, because instead of having the girl leave the bastard, I needed her to really want to please him. I was freaking out, ranting at people "MY CHARACTERS HAVE ISSUES" so yes, I think I do think of them as real people.

-Chicklet

You had vaguely similar experience to the one that prompted this question. In a piece I'm working on the narrator is in a postion of power and abuses it. At some point it started crossing the line from sexual to really fucking up someone's psychosis. It surprised me that a scene that twisted popped up. Umm...not that this character is based on me in anyway...I'm a perfectly nice guy...just as soon as a I find those pills...

 

[oggbashan]

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