Do you ever get jealousof your main character

[mangrove jack]

Jealous Do you ever get jealous of your hero or heroine

I was reading and editing a story when I thought to myself the lucky young bastard I wish that was happening to me.
Yes I was jealous. Mangrove Jack

 

[Guest]

O, not jealous, that's an awful state. Do I wish I could be my characters for an hour or a day? Yes! Otherwise I wouldn't be writing them, or reading others.

I would guess your feelings are perfectly normal, though 'normal' is an awful word, especially on this site I'd say.

Regards, Perdita

p.s. like your name.

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

I have never been jealous of a character, really. When I was in my mid-teens I was suffering from depression and I wrote a sci-fi story as a means of escape, and I created the kind of guy I wish I could be - tall, strong, steel-nerved, yet inside with many of the same insecurities that I had (and still have). Sometimes during that phase I would sit in front of the screen and long to be that character, in his place, going through the 'real' horrors of a ficticious war and remaining strong throughout, instead of falling apart at every tiny set-back as I was at that time. I think that was more to do with depression and the emotional imbalance associated with it than a real desire to actually 'be' that character, or any jealousy of him.

However, a year ago I wanted someone very badly, but she obviously didn't return my affection, and she evidently told her boyfriends about me. At one stage it was impossible for me to enter my local drinking haunt without having to face the threatening stares of several other guys. Although nothing came of it, I felt deeply angry that she felt it necessary to put me in that situation without ever taking the time to say more than 10 words to me. So I used her as the main character in my slave story, and made quite sure that I did lots of very nasty things to her. Every time I see her boyfriends now, I can't help a wide grin plastering itself over my face - oh, if only they knew...

And there's been more than one thread here about 'falling' for a character. In fact, I've done that too ...but she's behind me now. I must be strong, I must move on...

ax

 

[Guest]

MasterUK: thanks for your post. It's comforting to know someone w/your moniker has insecurities.

I like what you say about working out stuff via other characters; gives me ideas.

Regards, Perdita

 

[pop_54]

Jealous Do you ever get jealous of your hero or heroine

I was reading and editing a story when I thought to myself the lucky young bastard I wish that was happening to me.
Yes I was jealous. Mangrove Jack

Too right mate, wish I could pick up women that easy and hump all night like that lucky bastard, and of course there's the matter of the 12" apendage.


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

 

[openthighs_sarah]

That whore?

No, but we have an understanding: I supply her with all the sex, and she deals with the emotional consequences and the sullied reputation. Sometimes she just wants a break, but I just laugh and tell her to spread her fucking legs.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: That whore?

Sometimes she just wants a break, but I just laugh and tell her to spread her fucking legs.

Dear Sarah,
Atta girl! Gotta keep them characters under the thumb, or they tend to get out of control. Nothing worse then a rogue character running amok.
MG

 

[Guest]

Main character? I'm really confused.


All my stories are totally, positively true events.


(do you mean to tell me that some of the stories on Lit didn't actually happen???)

 

[Couture]

You could always kill the bastard, and then you won't be so jealous anymore.

 

[mangrove jack]

jealous

No I couldn`t kill the young bastard I like him ...he`s just getting more than me...


Mangrove Jack

 

[sirhugs]

more like admiration than jealousy.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Do I ever get jealous of my main characters?"


Eeeh... try "all the time!"

*One more month before I see him... just one more month*

 

[MathGirl]

Thirty days of ..........

*One more month before I see him... just one more month*

Hiya, Swede,
Let me guess, we're going to get a daily update. Right? That's okay, I know how you feel. I'm going to see my man soon, and it's been a lllooooooooooong time.
MG

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Nah, I'll save the countdown for Harry. Then again, the two events will actually collide. Hubby is taking me to London the 20th, so that we can be at the release-party of OotP, and buy the book as soon as they release it!

"I've GOT it! I've been waiting for this book for two years, and now I've GOT it!!! OK, darling, let's go back to the hotel and tuck you in, and you can take a nap while I read this book. It's only 738 pages in a foreign language, I should be done by tomorrow morning..."

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

MasterUK: thanks for your post. It's comforting to know someone w/your moniker has insecurities.

Ooh I have a moniker? (I honestly just had to look that up in a dictionary)

ax

 

[MathGirl]

Ms Lewinski

Moniker. Isn't that the name of the woman who blew the President a few years back?
MG

Ps. Dear Svenska,
Much better AV, dear. Are you going to discipline that simian?

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I definitely have wished that I could spend time in various character's bodies, like Katherine in the Wesley series

 

[Sabledrake]

Not usually ... I tend to be pretty mean to them

Sabledrake

 

[mangrove jack]

jealous?

Perdita

Thanks for your reply.


The more I think about it the more I know "Jealous" is the wrong word...
envious ? maybe


Mangrove Jack

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Ms Lewinski

Ps. Dear Svenska,
Much better AV, dear. Are you going to discipline that simian?

Actually, I've rescued the poor thing. It was being spanked silly.

Svenskaflicka
Protector of Animals

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

Jealous Do you ever get jealous of your hero or heroine

I was reading and editing a story when I thought to myself the lucky young bastard I wish that was happening to me.
Yes I was jealous. Mangrove Jack

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Jealous?
The protagonist of about a third of my words is a Ph D
with a very sexy wife and a cute baby girl. He and his
wife go at it like bunny rabbits.
Why should I be jealous of Bob Brennan?