Recurring Characters

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Seymour? What was your first clue?

You and Edna are so easy to bait and snag.

 

[sr71plt]

I think it was when I heard your head rattle as you posted yet another pathetic plea for someone to give you attention in your utter loneliness.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I think it was when I heard your head rattle as you posted yet another pathetic plea for someone to give you attention in your utter loneliness.

Youre drinking earlier in the day I see.

 

[slyc_willie]

The story I just submitted to the Halloween contest has a recurring character, one I used in my 2007 Halloween entry. I added him in at the last minute as a sort of homage to that story.

 

[sr71plt]

Youre drinking earlier in the day I see.

Yep, that iced tea can really get you going. It can even make you forget what apostrophes and commas are for.

Any of those books you are recommending to folks deal with grammar and punctuation, James?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yep, that iced tea can really get you going. It can even make you forget what apostrophes and commas are for.

Any of those books you are recommending to folks deal with grammar and punctuation, James?

I use the same guide e.e.cummings recommended. Sorry bout that Principal Skinner.

 

[sr71plt]

I use the same guide e.e.cummings recommended. Sorry bout that Principal Skinner.

Hmmm. The only poetry I've seen you post, Stella showed that you had stolen. If you really want to be good about blowing smoke about your own writing "expertise" by quoting book titles, you should find a better one for prose grammar and punctuation.

Oh, and you might look into what erotica actually is.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hmmm. The only poetry I've seen you post, Stella showed that you had stolen. If you really want to be good about blowing smoke about your own writing "expertise" by quoting book titles, you should find a better one for prose grammar and punctuation.

Oh, and you might look into what erotica actually is.

But see, I don't care. In fact, I kinda like the idea that you and Edna stay upset. I like that it keeps you boys up late.

 

[sr71plt]

But see, I don't care. In fact, I kinda like the idea that you and Edna stay upset. I like that it keeps you boys up late.

And I like that you think so. It's you who invokes me in various juvenile references on threads I don't even post to.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And I like that you think so. It's you who invokes me in various juvenile references on threads I don't even post to.

I;m a young stud and youre an old fuck, so its right that I act my age.

 

[sr71plt]

I;m a young stud and youre an old fuck, so its right that I act my age.

We'll just let that sit there as an example of you.

Guess the semicolon shows you really don't know what punctuation is. I can quite understand why you just gave up when you got to the "it's."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We'll just let that sit there as an example of you.

Guess the semicolon shows you really don't know what punctuation is. I can quite understand why you just gave up when you got to the "it's."

A few of us are pioneers NOT McLIT burger flippers.

 

[sr71plt]

And there's lazy and trying pretend what you're not--don't forget those.

 

[lovecraft68]

Boys!

Don't make me come in there!

Talk about recurring characters!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Boys!

Don't make me come in there!

Talk about recurring characters!

Youre jealous.

 

[mikoli5763]

Okay, somebody enlighten me.

When you ask about "recurring characters" are you talking about stories built around those characters or brief mention of a character introduced in another story in a unrelated story?
I have mentioned characters from earlier stories in quite a few of my later stories. The only ones who comment are the ones who haven't read my earlier stories. I think I picked it up from my favorite author Steven King.

 

[slyc_willie]

My take on "recurring characters" is one or more characters appearing in unrelated stories. King is a good example of this. If you have characters recurring in a group of stories which are obviously tied together, that's a series.

 

[lovecraft68]

Lovecraft and his "Circle" did this best.

he created the Cthulhu mythos and not only allowed but encouraged his pen pals to join in the fun.

Authors Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E Howard and many others all contributed not only deities, but their own fearsome tomes to match LC's Necronimicon.

To this day people still use and add to the mythos. F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumly, Ramsey Campell are just a few.

Lovecraft and Bloch even wrote the other into their stories(not by name, but they knew they were them) and killed them off.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I think my favorite is a movie reference. Texas Ranger Earl McGraw--played by Michael Parks--appears in several Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez movies, including Dusk to Dawn, Kill Bill, Death Proof, and Planet Terror. He's also in a deleted scene from Machete.

 

[SecondCircle]

Lovecraft and his "Circle" did this best.

he created the Cthulhu mythos and not only allowed but encouraged his pen pals to join in the fun.

Authors Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E Howard and many others all contributed not only deities, but their own fearsome tomes to match LC's Necronimicon.

To this day people still use and add to the mythos. F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumly, Ramsey Campell are just a few.

Lovecraft and Bloch even wrote the other into their stories(not by name, but they knew they were them) and killed them off.

This is probably the most notable for me. The "Great Old Ones" have basically become a kind of horror mythology. I never get tired of seeing the characters utilized, because usually, they are only touched upon or used loosely in the actual stories, aside from the originals by H.P. himself. Adds to the mystery and awe of it all. Nothing like a great cosmic horrific god like being to take the stage and inspire future horror writers.

There's even a Halloween contest entry as we speak that involves one of these recurring characters. It's a pretty darn good snippet, and I'm glad that the content is still inspiring writers, especially here at the Lit playground.

Damn, I read a short story some where on the internet that I found especially intriguing. Don't remember the name or where I even read it. It's about a woman that paints, like professionally or whatever, and she suddenly starts having dreams. They all involve a massive being with tentacles on his face that sort of "calls" to her. Then no matter what she does, she keeps wanting to paint the entity that visits her in her dreams.

Her husband gets worried about the monster on the canvass and his wife's shaken sanity, she sees a therapist who clues her in on Cthulhu, and all that. She even falls into a daydream like state and tries to walk into the water to be with the entity, effectively almost drowning. In the end, she's so overcome with the pull of this "entity" that she finishes her masterpiece/ abomination atop a cliff or something like that and plummets to the waves below to be with the thing of her dreams.

Well, anyway, what is suggested by the story is that human beings like the woman, those with some form of craft or art practice, are drawn by the "Call of Cthulhu" and replicate the call through art to the rest of the world. As in, her painting. It even references Metallica's song that is entitled "Call of Ktulhu" and that they were drawn by the call.

Crap. Sorry for the ramble, yet again. Just my own kinda brushing with the aforementioned recurring characters. Hats off to that writer anyhow. Wherever they are....

 

[Bramblethorn]

This is probably the most notable for me. The "Great Old Ones" have basically become a kind of horror mythology. I never get tired of seeing the characters utilized, because usually, they are only touched upon or used loosely in the actual stories, aside from the originals by H.P. himself. Adds to the mystery and awe of it all. Nothing like a great cosmic horrific god like being to take the stage and inspire future horror writers.

There's even a Halloween contest entry as we speak that involves one of these recurring characters.

Two entries, in fact, though mine was a bit more oblique than TE999's.

(Technically, the one I invoked is pre-Lovecraft, but it's long since been assimilated into the Mythos.)

 

[49greg]

The story I just submitted to the Halloween contest has a recurring character, one I used in my 2007 Halloween entry. I added him in at the last minute as a sort of homage to that story.

In a Halloween story this year that I started but never finished, I used the same characters as in my last years Halloween entry - the only contest entry that I ever finished. I'll file it with the unfinished Valentine and summer loving entries using the same characters. Maybe next year.

 

[49greg]

I think my favorite is a movie reference. Texas Ranger Earl McGraw--played by Michael Parks--appears in several Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez movies, including Dusk to Dawn, Kill Bill, Death Proof, and Planet Terror. He's also in a deleted scene from Machete.

I wonder if actors in deleted scenes get the same pay as if the scene was included? Probably so, but it has got to be a blow to the ego.

 

[slyc_willie]

I loved the scene with Parks in From Dusk til Dawn. The whole scene was very well done, better than most of the rest of the movie (except for Clooney's little warning speech to the hostage, before Richie killed her).

 

[sr71plt]

I wonder if actors in deleted scenes get the same pay as if the scene was included?

Yep, they get whatever was contracted off the top. It's kind of a blow not to be able to point out that dot in the background as you to your friends, though.