Do you like your Characters?

[JackLuis]

I've got one character I really like, even though I haven't written much of her coherently. She's almost five foot tall, almost twenty and almost 90 pounds, wears steel capped size four boots, and thinks she's a lesbian.

I know this is going to shit for the thinking part, but bear with me.

Raised by her Lesbian Mom and "Aunt Spike", she never considered the alternative, until she goes to college. Futter University, in Horny Springs of course.

She is a bright computer geek, and gets a job running a computerized condom supply company, part time. Her boss takes her to lunch and ends up shooting a Mexican Drug enforcer, who is about to shoot a cowboy in the saloon. She captures it all on her I-Pad and had to dry her panties in a ladies room after.

I really like G.G. Terwilliger.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

This new character that I created, Kay, is very likeable, if rather sassy. She's a short, plump hermaphrodite with jet black hair and dark blue eyes. She's also very feminine, despite what she's packing (no balls, just a cock and a small one at that). Of course, she thinks of herself as a freak, since guys panic when they see her dick. Until she finds the guy who doesn't panic or think of her that way.

There's also Christina, the main female character from my revision of Door 2 Door, which I hope to post soon. She's a horny widow of 33 who just wants to find a husband/fellow swinger and does find it in a disgruntled young Jehovah's Witness who knocks at just the right time on her door.

 

[lance gt]

I mentioned before how much I enjoy my new characters, Gillian and her lover, Marissa. The more I connected with them, the plots and storylines became better and more fun to write for future chapters.

I think the story reads better, when the writer is enjoying writing his/her characters. It shows in the writing and the characters are well portrayed.

 

[_Lynn_]

When I don't like my characters, I tend to lose interest in the story. I must have fifty starts from the past year sitting in files. I need that connection with them or the sentences are meaningless words.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Sometimes I like them too much. With my last NonCon story (Desperate Measures: The Baller), I liked my lead characters so much that I tried to write a happy ending for them. My beta reader pointed out that it really wasn't working as a Romance, so I bit the bullet and cut it off at the original ending. I'm still trying to make the excised part work as a stand-alone story.

 

[sr71plt]

Seems like if I liked all of my characters I'd be writing pablum--so, no, I don't like them all.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm liking my tentacle woman character Despina Jones very much. And I like her current girlfriend, and her brother. Who will NOT be having sex with her, by the way
Although I've developed other characters in the story, those three seem to have really clicked for me.

And in my dykeverse, I seem to be most involved with Dusty, and Emily. I keep wanting to pair them up in every story! It's actually being a problem in writing, because their characters don't always fit the needs of some of the stories

Several years ago, I was part of a fanfiction community. Someone in the group created a character, Jamie Madrigal, who was only meant to be a walk-on role. the name was nice so people kept using it-- then suddenly, Jamie was the main character in a whole bunch of stories, with a back history all his own. The fandom took off in an entirely original direction. That was fun!

 

[PennLady]

I enjoy all of my characters to some extent, or as Mistress Lynn says, it wouldn't be any fun writing them. Even the bad guys can be interesting, which isn't the same as likable. Although it's taking me a long time to finish, I really do like my leads in Rhythm and the Blue Line. I think my two favorites, though, may have been my leads from Young Blood, a were e-book I did. The guy was a vampire, the woman a weretiger and it was just fun.

 

[Jenneva]

I think you have to be in love with your characters. That's how I feel when I'm entwined in writing. I can't stop thinking about them. Sometimes to the point where I can't sleep or eat. If you can't relate, or don't like them, how do you expect your readers to?

 

[sr71plt]

I think you have to be in love with your characters. That's how I feel when I'm entwined in writing. I can't stop thinking about them. Sometimes to the point where I can't sleep or eat. If you can't relate, or don't like them, how do you expect your readers to?

If you are in love with all of your characters (and in all of your stories), where is the tension of the story (and of all of your stories)? Where is the depth in the character studies and plotlines? Sorry, I couldn't write each and every story at such a shallow depth.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

If you are in love with all of your characters (and in all of your stories), where is the tension of the story (and of all of your stories)? Where is the depth in the character studies and plotlines? Sorry, I couldn't write each and every story at such a shallow depth.

I love my characters that go through the worst circumstances. I am cruel to those I adore.

I don't give a fuck about the two women that I wrote stories about. They both had quick-easy happy/ambiguous endings.

And yet, THEY are the popular ones.

-_-'

Keep in mind, all of the stories here kinda have to be shallow. If I ever killed a main character, or had a romance go sour, I would get eaten alive! In the bad way!

 

[lance gt]

If you are in love with all of your characters (and in all of your stories), where is the tension of the story (and of all of your stories)? Where is the depth in the character studies and plotlines? Sorry, I couldn't write each and every story at such a shallow depth.

No wonder your stories suck. I love every character I write and that includes the protagonists and antagonists. If I want my reader to hate my character, I get into him/her as much as the rest. The depth comes from human conflict and drama, but none of that exists in your technical writing style. Speaking of shallow, your writing doesn't come any shallower. The best word I can think of is BLAH.

You boast like you're ready to be the next best thing, yet your flame is already flickering and ready to go out. Do yourself a favour and the rest of us as well, stop posting like you know how to write, go take some lessons and for fuck's sake, how many times to I have to tell you to go have that problem looked at by a doctor?

 

[sr71plt]

And there's the other boobie twin, accusing me of boasts I don't make, and being an asshole about my stories. If you don't like them, Lance, just don't read them. I wasn't counting on any awards from you.

Could the rabid obsessions of Lovecraft and Lance with me be any more obvious?

 

[lance gt]

And there's the other boobie twin, accusing me of boasts I don't make, and being an asshole about my stories. If you don't like them, Lance, just don't read them. I wasn't counting on any awards from you.

Could the rabid obsessions of Lovecraft and Lance with me be any more obvious?

What? You thought LC was the only one who thought you were a waste of pixels on the screen? You're like the piece of shit that won't go away, no matter how many times you flush, so the use of abrasives is usually the way to go with it.

Fuck off poofter.

 

[sr71plt]

And as always with Lance, it ends up with his gay bashing--which I guess is my principal sin in his eyes. These guys just can't help revealing themselves. As if I care.

Talk about shallow characters.

Obviously my other sins with both of these yokels is that I don't give into their bullying and won't just pull my stories and leave the forum. Tough. They're just Internet accounts. They mean nothing to me in the real world--nor do they have any effect on my presence in the marketplace.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't have a lot of feelings one way or another for the characters in my one shot stories. Although I did like Paula in My V-day story.

For my series I of course liked the two main characters, so much so that when I wrote their "death"-which was a dream sequence- I was depressed even though I knew it and they aren't real.

In that series I created two characters that I really hated, but that was their place in the story so I worked as hard on them as the others.

I think in a series you need some attachment or affinity to your characters. If you don't like them how can you get the reader to do it?

But as it is with many topics here, there is probably no definitive right way, depends on the author

 

[lovecraft68]

What? You thought LC was the only one who thought you were a waste of pixels on the screen? You're like the piece of shit that won't go away, no matter how many times you flush, so the use of abrasives is usually the way to go with it.

Fuck off poofter.

Jeez, and here I was thinking I was one of a kind. But just remember something,

If Pilot was a turd, he would be the biggest, smelliest turd ever! The best turd in the bowl!

And where the hell did you get Poofter? I think I read that in Mad magazine once.

 

[lance gt]

And as always with Lance, it ends up with his gay bashing--which I guess is my principal sin in his eyes. These guys just can't help revealing themselves. As if I care.

Talk about shallow characters.

Obviously my other sins with both of these yokels is that I don't give into their bullying and won't just pull my stories and leave the forum. Tough. They're just Internet accounts. They mean nothing to me in the real world--nor do they have any effect on my presence in the marketplace.

Still trying to play that card? You're not even fucking gay. You're a poofter because you're a snivelling, little pissant, who sits there in panties his wife ordered him to wear and tries to act like a man.

You do know that your stories are being boycotted by gays, for being so boring, no one can get it up after reading them. They want a warning label attached to them explaining the risk.

Damn, it's a good day, when I get to squish some shit in your face, you pathetic piece of humanity.

See how deep I get into your character? I loathe you, but I put so much effort into making sure you know how much I do. That's human conflict, that's drama, that's writing.

Fuck off loser. Go learn to write.

 

[lance gt]

Jeez, and here I was thinking I was one of a kind. But just remember something,

If Pilot was a turd, he would be the biggest, smelliest turd ever! The best turd in the bowl!

And where the hell did you get Poofter? I think I read that in Mad magazine once.

I love that word. Should go in the seldom used words thread. Describes pilot perfectly. He thinks it means gay, but it means sissy, girlie-man, panty-waist and all those wonderful monikers. Gays don't even associate the word with themselves.

 

[sr71plt]

As with Lovecraft, there's no need for me to respond to Lance here. He exposes himself and his obsessions quite revealingly.

 

[PennLady]

Seems to me that perhaps the OP question could be taken a couple of different ways. I'm not "in love" with any of my characters. But I try to make the good guys likable and the bad guys at least interesting, because otherwise it's no fun to write them. But I guess I'm rooting for my characters, even though I'm the author and I know what the general ending will be. I may not know how they'll get there, but I look forward to seeing them overcome the obstacles, and in the appropriate stories, the bad guys.

 

[sr71plt]

Seems to me that perhaps the OP question could be taken a couple of different ways. I'm not "in love" with any of my characters. But I try to make the good guys likable and the bad guys at least interesting, because otherwise it's no fun to write them. But I guess I'm rooting for my characters, even though I'm the author and I know what the general ending will be. I may not know how they'll get there, but I look forward to seeing them overcome the obstacles, and in the appropriate stories, the bad guys.

But you include bad guys as characters, don't you? I agree that maybe the OP (and several others) assumed only the protagonist was being considered here--but, even there, I don't always either love my protagonist or let the protagonist only do lovable things. That just doesn't make for much depth--or much of a writing challenge--if you do it again and again in all of the stories you write.

 

[lance gt]

As with Lovecraft, there's no need for me to respond to Lance here. He exposes himself and his obsessions quite revealingly.

Fucking right I do. I don't hide behind anyone, or anything. You deserve every response you get for your shitfloating and whining. Your snide little snippets at new writers sicken me, trying to come off like you're someone of noteworthy reputation and you can't write to save yourself. Good thing you're on a fixed pension, writing should remain a personal hobby for you and keep the shit to yourself to wank off to.

Now get out of here and let the Mrs. put those ball clamps and weights on you. I think she has the strap on lubed up for you too. Have a fun night, poofter.

 

[sr71plt]

Goodnight, Lance. I'm please with how your little tantrum played out.

And, no thanks, I plan to stay on Lit.

 

[lance gt]

Goodnight, Lance. I'm please with how your little tantrum played out.

And, no thanks, I plan to stay on Lit.

That's okay, I plan on staying too and making your night fun.

I love seeing how stupid you are when you respond to someone and try to sound like you know what you're talking about. Try to understand what people are saying and not make interpretations of what you think it means. They know what they said, you just have to figure it out and maybe you will too and see how fucked up you are.

We can only hope.