This is the best thread ever. Now I don't feel quite as nuts and crazy anymore. It seems that I am in very good company!
This is not an unfamiliar phenomenon to me. I experience this all the time. Sometimes I'm forced to reallocate characters or stories to my non-erotic work if and when they get a little too 'real' for my Lush work. By the same token, for my characters that just get a little too randy for my non-erotic writings and publishings, I send them here. It's kind of a revolving door, honestly. I have to make sure not to get confused and of course to shuffle some names and personal details around in case of a switch, but if they're not working here, it's time for them to move on, and if they aren't working anywhere else, maybe they should hang out here for a while.
At a practical level, I'm a big proponent of recycling your own work. I keep a scratchpad, a scrap folder, and a misfits folder. Invaluable tools, if you ask me. Hope that helps.
I think this is the funniest thread on the forums!
I currently have two characters who are supposed to be getting together...but she's freaking out, and he's freaking out because he's never loved anyone before and she won't talk to him, and really, I just want to handcuff them together and tell them to just get the fuck over it and talk to each other. But no...she has to run off to join a missions trip to Africa. Blink. REALLY? I know next to nothing about Africa, accept almost all the wildlife there can will kill you and its hot as hell there. So now he's insisting on huffing it all over Africa to find her.
ME: Geez buddy, if you want to get laid that badly, I'll give you a hooker to play with.
HIM:"But, But...I love HER!" Whine whine, bitch bitch.
ME: I don't have enough wine to deal with you right now.
I understand how you feel stephanie. I haven't been writing all that long but when I first started, I tried writing a story and putting the characters in it. I quickly found out that was the wrong way to go about it. I discovered that if I let the characters tell ME their story, it is a lot easier. So now when I write I find the characters first. Here's what I mean:
Say I feel like writing a BDSM story, for example. I pick the genre of the story I want, then I go on the lookout for the cover pic for it. The cover pic is usually the main character (although not always) so I use that pic for the "inspiration" for the story. Then I start writing the backstory and from there it just sort of takes off and I write like a madman to get the story as close to finished as the "zone" lasts!
Sometimes I can write a two-part story in a single sitting. Other times it takes a few days. It depends on what distractions, chores, or errands I have to do in the meantime. But fitting the characters to the story rarely works for me. I have to write their story if I want to make it easy for me.
Some of my characters are real people I have known - not know now. I am sure they would kill me if they knew I had taken a little bit of literary licence with their lives.
My fictitious ones don't talk to me but I am sure they would enjoy doing some of the things I have had them do and thank me for if they could, or even accomplish with me what I had them do in my story.
Some turn me on as I write about them and if they appeared in real life the story may never be finished.
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