Letting Characters Go

[madam_noe]

I just finished the 7th installment of my Marly Jackson stories and of all my characters I have to say she most greatly reflected who I am in many ways.

I find myself almost crying having finished her last story. I plan to expand them into full novels for publishing some day, but for now it's like losing a friend.

Does anyone else get this attached to their characters? It's kind of strange for me. Of all the other stories I finished I simply felt pride. Now I kind of want a beer, a cigarette, and some commiseration.

Is this normal?

 

[lovecraft68]

I just finished the 7th installment of my Marly Jackson stories and of all my characters I have to say she most greatly reflected who I am in many ways.

I find myself almost crying having finished her last story. I plan to expand them into full novels for publishing some day, but for now it's like losing a friend.

Does anyone else get this attached to their characters? It's kind of strange for me. Of all the other stories I finished I simply felt pride. Now I kind of want a beer, a cigarette, and some commiseration.

Is this normal?

Yes as a matter of fact I am writing a long running incest series that back in my original outline was supposed to end with the sister dying. It was also supposed to be written from the brothers point of view but for whatever reason it seemed btter to write it from her's. by the th chapter I was starting to question if I could kill her. I decided to write the last chapter in advance to get it over with so to speak. I was in tears while writing it and have decided to completely change the ending. I found myself telling my wife that Megan "deserved better". After awhile the ybecome like your kids.

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, it's normal. I even become attached to my villains and often don't dispense with them the first time I intended to.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just finished the 7th installment of my Marly Jackson stories and of all my characters I have to say she most greatly reflected who I am in many ways.

I find myself almost crying having finished her last story. I plan to expand them into full novels for publishing some day, but for now it's like losing a friend.

Does anyone else get this attached to their characters? It's kind of strange for me. Of all the other stories I finished I simply felt pride. Now I kind of want a beer, a cigarette, and some commiseration.

Is this normal?

Actually, no, it's the people those characters are based on that I miss the most.

 

[sr71plt]

There can be money in it. I'm going the Hilton Head in the spring and England in the fall in what is in it this year.