QOTW -- Your characters ...

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16	Fri, 10-08-2004 - 10:41am

How different are your characters from yourself? Are your characters people you wish you were like, or are they caricatures of people you know. Where do your characters come from?

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cisplatin

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Registered: 08-26-2004

In reply to: cl_eleyneclermont

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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 10:58am

They´re definitely not people I wish to be like, that´s for sure. Some of them have bits and pieces of myself, or of my own experiences. Some of them are types and personalities I am bewildered by, in different ways, but which I try to understand. or at least to study, by writing about them, or as in the short story I posted yesterday: by writing as though I were one of them. Usually, characters appear as in a movie in my mind, and I just try to describe what I see, at least in the first drafts. During editing I try to check whether the details, the images etc are credible and relevant in terms of the personality/psychology of each character.

This is a very interesting question and I´m really looking forward to the answers!

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t_rae2004

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Registered: 08-30-2004

In reply to: cl_eleyneclermont

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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 11:02am

How different are your characters from yourself?

Usually my characters have some kind of fantasy side from them being aliens, witches, or super heroes. Another difference and I didn't notice this until a friend who has been reading some of my past stuff pointed out. Most of my characters have some form of a family to hold and I come from a broken family.

Are your characters people you were like, or are they caricatures of people you know?

In places of my work I can find where it's both. Example I have a character named Dominique which her personality is my own so that's obivously people I know. On the other hand characters such as Raven, Mikado, and Shadow King are not based on people rather based on a concept. Mikado and Shadow king based on the concept to be ruthless and yet effiecent at the same time.

Where do your characters come from?

Raven came from a dream I had of a woman turning into a bird. Many of characters come to me by Television or Video games though. Mikado was based off a character from Gundamn Wing called Char. Shadow king first came to me in a dream and I brought him back to life by life i mean by using him in a story. Shadow king was one of the villains in a story I wrote a long time ago. The story is long over but, the impact two of the characters from it made gave them immortality.

annunziata2001

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Registered: 03-29-2003

In reply to: cl_eleyneclermont

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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 2:46pm

Of all the characters I've created, I'd say Stephanie (FFYTC) is most like me, except I have glasses and she doesn't.

It's hard to say where Celine (Everywhere) com es from, but I know that Nick is the guy I want to marry someday personified.

newbie101

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Registered: 09-10-2004

In reply to: cl_eleyneclermont

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Fri, 10-08-2004 - 3:38pm

So far my characters seem to have small piecies of my personality. They come from all sorts of placees. Television, books, cartoons. I find charaacters just about every place I look.