Every year I have a character that I absolutely adore. Everything they say comes easily, their jokes make me laugh and their actions surprise me. Does everyone else have this too?
I have to admit I'm falling for the Big Bad Wolf...he's suave, debonair, and Red doesn't have a chance against his wit and charm...I might not either. But I think what just sealed the deal on my love for him was when he got her to shake his hand, and after he kissed it and she pulled back a bit he said (not me, I was just channeling) "don't worry, I don't bite." LOL--he's the Big Bad Wolf!!! I love it!
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56,839 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2007 - 23 38
Well considering there's times when I have to resist the urge to want to glomp one of my main characters....yeah :)
My three main characters are the main ones because I like them so much (the 10th Doctor Who, Danny Phantom and an OC that's based on me). :)
58,086 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2007 - 07 16
I'm really struggling with whether or not I should kill a particular character, because she's so funny and awesome.
53,597 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2007 - 08 52
Is it really up to you whether or not one of your characters dies? I mean, if you sacrifice the story just to protect a character, that seems like bad form. I know what you mean though, because I'm having a hard time keeping two of my characters together. I don't know if their relationship is going to survive this novel, but it would break my heart to see them break up. I'll have to keep writing and see what develops.
58,086 / 50,000
Nov 12, 2007 - 09 20
Having the character live or die can take my story in two different directions and I like both outcomes.
50,784 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 18 15
I think I'm in love with my MC's best friend. Which may be why some of the scenes with the two of them seem like they are in love with each other (they most adamantly are not - they are like brothers). *rolls eyes* I think part of the problem is that I am writing in first person. And since I'm a girl, it is difficult to write a male MC. ><
50,103 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 20 57
I'm not attached to the character I thought I would be attached to... my side characters are turning out even more quirky and personal than my main character (who I want to smack sometimes). I gave one character a cameo but have fallen so much in love with him that I will have to bring him back at some point. He wasn't going to be in more than one scene, but he'll have to show up now.
69,000 / 50,000
Nov 13, 2007 - 21 52
I have a slightly different problem. I keep falling in love with the characters I base on myself. I mean, is that a problem?
50,784 / 50,000
Nov 14, 2007 - 09 39
Quite possibly. >< Well, despite the saying that "opposites attract," I know lots of people who are in relationships (and stable, healthy ones) with others with similar traits to them. :-P Or...well, it could be that, despite basing them off yourself, they have evolved into characters who fit the ideals of what you look for in a person.
Or you are slightly narcissistic. There really isn't anything wrong with that. Honest.
56,021 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 06 10
I don't really like my main character. She's not very bright, and she's pretty whiny. But so far I've introduced four male characters who have romantic potential, and I'm falling in love with all of them for different reasons. Actually, so is my main character... so maybe she's not a total idiot.
51,523 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 09 48
Yeah, I feel very much the same way right now. My MC is beginning to bug me. I was worried at first that she was a little too Mary Jane (perfect) but now I've put her through the wringer and she has spent most of the last two chapters bawling and I'm really wishing I could get back to her love interest.
70,466 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 16 31
Does it count if you have one character who you really want to see, um, you know. She keeps talking about it but so far two male characters have resisted her advances. I mean, this character is really despicable as she's the reason for the conflict in the story (so she's sort of indespensable) and in the end she really gets hers (but not in the way I keep wanting to write). But for some reason she's got the most personality, the most spunk, and the most sex appeal of any of the characters.
I keep fighting the urge to fall in love with my main character as that would have disasterous real life consequences as she's based loosely on someone. So I keep shortchanging her personality-wise (to keep her from becoming this real life person who she's really only about 30% like).
This is actually the first year I haven't fallen in love with the FMC (or in the case of my 2005 novel the girlfriend of my MMC since there was no FMC to speak of). In 2004, I fell totally for the FMC. So much so that everyone who read it did too. And they really hate me for what happens to her at the end. Hopefully that won't happen again this year.
69,000 / 50,000
Nov 15, 2007 - 21 00
beatnik,
I say just go for it. Let your character have a roll in the hay. I can't see any possible consequences. If it starts to bother you, you can always edit it out later.
27,105 / 50,000
Jan 30, 2008 - 22 48
Mine's almost certainly a Mary Sue, and it's been proving hard to cure. I don't want to totally scrap her-lot of personality, flaws, etc.- but she's definitely over powered. I'm not sure if I could pull off writing her.