Would you do a Stephen King?

[Svenskaflicka]

I saw part 2 of Stephen King's Rose Red on TV last night, and I laughed when I recognized Stephen King playing a pizza delivery guy in the film. He always plays some minor part in his films, doesn't he? Like a mailman, a delivery guy, a janitor, etc. Clive Cussler always puts himself in his books as a minor charcter, too, like, someone who answers the hero's question "did a guy in a leather jacket run by here?"

Do you ever star in your own stories? Except for the obvious ones, when you write about your own adventures, of course.

If your stories would be filmed, what part would you play?

The Hero/Heroïne?
The Geek?
The Second Man/Woman From The Left In The Line At The Bank?

 

[raphy]

I saw part 2 of Stephen King's Rose Red on TV last night, and I laughed when I recognized Stephen King playing a pizza delivery guy in the film. He always plays some minor part in his films, doesn't he? Like a mailman, a delivery guy, a janitor, etc. Clive Cussler always puts himself in his books as a minor charcter, too, like, someone who answers the hero's question "did a guy in a leather jacket run by here?"

Do you ever star in your own stories? Except for the obvious ones, when you write about your own adventures, of course.

If your stories would be filmed, what part would you play?

The Hero/Heroïne?
The Geek?
The Second Man/Woman From The Left In The Line At The Bank?

I'm in my NaNo, not the protagonist though (I ain't gonna call him a hero)

Well. I'm sort of in my NaNo. A few of my Shadowrun roleplaying characters are in my NaNo. I guess that's about as close as it comes.

That said, Colly's in my NaNo

 

[Icingsugar]

I never deliberately include myself in the stuff I write as a character. I guess I don't know myself well enough to do that.

I think I've mentioned this, but I do act. Tried for about year to be an actor for a living, and got some jobs on stage, but never enough to pay the rent.

So hell yeah I'd want to starr. Some kind of cool support character, I guess. Like Tarantino's "Jimmy" in Pulp Fiction.

 

[raphy]

Like Tarantino's "Jimmy" in Pulp Fiction.

Yeah, that would be cool. My protagonists are never anything like me, so I sure couldn't play them, haha. Sam Elliot probably could, though

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Re: Would you do a Stephen King?

Colly's in my NaNo

*jealous*

 

[OldnotDead]

. . .
Do you ever star in your own stories? Except for the obvious ones, when you write about your own adventures, of course.

If your stories would be filmed, what part would you play? . . .

These questions reminded me of quote from a favorite author. "Writing wouldn't me work if all I had to do was write the sex scenes."

He also said that given the chance he would play the guy that got laid the most.

My sentiments as well.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Peter Jackson always plays a small role or casts himself as an extra in all of his movies. Well, maybe not in Heavenly Creatures or Meet the Feebles, but most of the rest. I think it must be fun.

I haven't done it, write myself into a story, but I wouldn't say no. Maybe next time.

 

[raphy]

And then there's always Kevin Smith.....

 

[Guest]

I can't see myself at all as my elevator girl, though I'd love to be either of my abuelitas in my NaNo novel.

I'd love to play/be a woman in Gauche's stories; not many 'real' older women in Lit. stories I'm sorry to say (even mine). Oh, and I'd love to play a variety of his females in his Fairy Story, even the witches. Really.

Perdita

p.s. edit: I forgot about my Snippettsville character, Sian. She's based on me and I'd love to play her with just the right 'Hannah' and 'Robert from Yorkshire'.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Challenge for everyone:

To include yourself as a character in one of your next stories. Change the names. Use a lot of descriptions, even for your minor characters. Let the others guess which one is you.

 

[Guest]

OK, Flicka, but you go first, and make the guy Alan Rickman or Raphy.

P.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Challenge for everyone:

To include yourself as a character in one of your next stories. Change the names. Use a lot of descriptions, even for your minor characters. Let the others guess which one is you.

That's a deal.

 

[Guest]

That's a deal.

Maravillosa, Laurencita. Please let me/us know when it's posted.

mucho gusto, Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Alan... raphy...
Alan... raphy...

Decisions, decisions...

 

[Guest]

Flickissima, write two stories, or just one with a great threesome. P.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Alan AND raphy... and me...

 

[Guest]

Alan AND raphy... and me...

Duh!

 

[Quasimodem]

raphy... and Rickman... and Flicka... oh, my!

raphy... and Rickman... and Flicka... oh, my!


BTW Flicka,

Is that to be a story for the Archive, or just something for the Bulletin Board?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Is that to be a story for the Archive, or just something for the Bulletin Board?

The Archive! A novel, printed and published and adapted to film and stage plays!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Normally, I wouldn't show my naked body to strangers (unless I was on the beach, or in the middle of an orgy), but if I could do Alan and raphy together...

Lights! Camera! ACTION!!!

 

[McKenna]

.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The great unveiling: P - 39 and counting.

C'mon, can you hurry it up, please?

 

[TheEarl]

I saw part 2 of Stephen King's Rose Red on TV last night, and I laughed when I recognized Stephen King playing a pizza delivery guy in the film. He always plays some minor part in his films, doesn't he? Like a mailman, a delivery guy, a janitor, etc. Clive Cussler always puts himself in his books as a minor charcter, too, like, someone who answers the hero's question "did a guy in a leather jacket run by here?"

Do you ever star in your own stories? Except for the obvious ones, when you write about your own adventures, of course.

If your stories would be filmed, what part would you play?

The Hero/Heroïne?
The Geek?
The Second Man/Woman From The Left In The Line At The Bank?

I've written a few Mary Sues before (FYI: a Mary Sue is a story based on a television show or film where the author writes him/herself in as a character. So called, because most amateur write themselves in as the perfect character who's much better than the real ones, ie. 'Look, here comes Mary-Sue to solve all of our problems!') based on the last series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I think have captured me as accurately as my natural narcissism will allow. I wasn't the hero (I made damn sure I didn't eclipse the real characters), but I wasn't a bit part either. It's a very, very difficult exercise to write yourself truthfully into a story.

I stopped halfway through, leaving the story unfinished, which is a bit of a shame, but my character was in a romance with another character. Now that I have someone who I love IRL, it's well nigh impossible to say it to a fictional character. Weird how I identify with myself that way .

The Earl

 

[the lunaretic]

I write everyone I know into my stories. Usually minor roles. If it's an action story, someone may be a contact, or a guard or something. Drama, someone in school, employee, etc. I usually refrain from putting myself in, because I feel terrible putting myself in a positive light. I feel like an ego inflation. I'd make myself mentally challenged or something so I don't feel like I'm flattering myself.


But yeah, my friends are usually the people in the stories that have one line of "Yeah, elevator's that way" "Yeah, we accept credit cards here" "Hey! Slow down!" kind of passers by.

 

[whispering_surrender]

One of my science fictions stories actually had me....well, loosely based on me. (She looked more like I look now than I did then.) And I'm shameless....I was the oh so clever heroine! *grin* Don't you just love fiction?

"I'm a writer. I give the truth scope." Geoffrey Chaucher character in The Knight's Tale

Whisper