Hey, guys! I was wondering if anyone else here surfed PostSecret on a regular basis or read the books. For those who don't know what it is, it's a massive project where people write down their secrets--or otherwise illustrate them--on a postcard and send it in to be posted or published. It's a collaborative way of knowing that you're not alone, or just of getting things off your chest.
I'm kind of a dork, so I like making PostSecret cards for my characters. Sure, it'd be easy enough just to write them down, but I'd rather actually decorate the cards and whatnot the way the character might. I have quite the collection. (Me and two friends spent an entire evening making cards for all of our characters.)
Anyone else interested in making some and showing them off? I'll post mine as soon as I get them scanned, though I don't have them with me right now. If you do wanna post, you can tell which character's secret it is, or keep it anonymous, which is more in the spirit of it. Might be fun, too.
Let's get our characters to spill their guts!
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i LOVE Post Secret! i think your idea is brilliant...
i was reading through the newest Post Secret book a few weeks ago and definitely felt the first stirrings of this years novel. your idea extends that beautifully for me. i'm stealing it :-)
i'd love to see some of your postcards and i'll try to get my backside in gear to have some to share as well.
thanks & cheers!
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That would be an AWESOME thread if we could get it started during November.
I adore reading lj_secret on livejournal...
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Okt 23, 2009 - 09 33
What a good idea! Wow, I'll definetly do that! My mind is now buzzing with ideas for characters secrets!
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Of course now my head is buzzing with even more ideas now. . .*shakes fist*.
But I'd still love to do it. *goes off to find pictures*
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I love this idea! I think every character has their own secret, in every story, so this is an awesome idea! When we officiallly move into our new place, I will definitely try this! =]
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The idea for my nano novel this year acctually originates from one of the postsecret postcards, it's the one that reads: "everyone that knew me before 9/11 believes I'm dead". So I guess that's one character that I don't have do make a postcard for, right? :)
I love the idea, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing more postcards here! If I wasn't so damn busy trying to get my apartment in order before nano starts I would have made some myself, oh well... :)
-sofia
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Okt 23, 2009 - 11 25
Ooh...I need to do this...my main character is packed with secrets...there's a time in his life that I'm currently referring to as "the lost decade" because he doesn't talk about it at all...but it's where he's really turned into the person we meet in the story...hum...
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This is incredible!
So going to make this for my character. And I'm imagining the difference in the secret piles. Some of them just never say anything. XD
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Okt 23, 2009 - 12 24
Ooh, I wanna do this!~ I love secrets, even if they never get revealed...
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Okt 23, 2009 - 13 52
AWESOME forum!!! Even though only one secret has been posted. I'm thinking about making these secrets for both my main characters and two characters that exist in the past of the main characters.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a381/jmclrnet/Greersecret.jpg
But for now, we start with this one :) Maybe I should make subsequent ones a little smaller...
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What a great idea! I was just wondering how to raise the stakes a bit more. Secrets will do that!
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Love the idea!
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This is mine for my character Dr. Anderson.
I guess to make more sense, I'll explain.
Dr. Anderson [antagonist] takes Sierra [protagonist] to her mental facility,
after Sierra witnessed her father's suicide.
Dr. Anderson makes it insanely obvious that she's gaga over Sierra.
But, the twist is that she has an extremely terrible past that resembles Sierra's,
her manager [antagonist] takes her into the facility & makes her his girlfriend.
While she's doing all these horrible experiments on these patients,
she's wondering if her life could ever be normal.
I could go on but I spoiled too much already. :x
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Okt 23, 2009 - 16 46
I love these! But I have way too many characters with way too many secrets. Plus I'm too lazy to make a post card. =]
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this is such a great iea! I'm gonna do one for both my protagonists. Maybe even two for each toshow what they're like in the beginning and the end!
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Both of these are from my leader character. The first is for his father-figure. The second is for his adopted children.
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that is a great idea for a novel! It sounds really interesting. It will turn out great! 8)
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Sometimes...I just wish I were a normal person.
You know? A normal girl, who would fall in love and couldn't read and liked ribbons and not be orphaned.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't a compulsive lier, constantly keeping secrets, hiding myself underneath layers of horror and past and misery and dirt and future.
Sometimes I wish you were here for me...
- Bettina
THANKS FOR THIS FORUM!!!
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http://s760.photobucket.com/albums/xx245/ZackFaire13/?action=view¤...
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Saw this linked from the main page, and found it interesting. So, main character extraordinare Ash Winter's brain is currently occupied with:
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The first secret was from my FMC.
This one is from my MMC:
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I also love this idea! I should work on it for my characters! How do you post it?
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Okt 23, 2009 - 18 27
First, make your picture. Photoshop, GIMP, Paint, whatever you use. Then choose a site to upload it to. Photobucket, Tinypic, and Imageshack are popular picks. Then just use this HTML to link to your secret:
< img src="http://url/picture.jpgorgiforpng" >
Take out the space between < and img and png" and >. Voila!
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Link to large image
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This isn't from the NaNo I'm gonna work on, but this is from something that i am working on most diligently:
"Perhaps this book is to explain to you who I am, and who I'm not. Or maybe, what I am, and what I'm not. Or even, what I could be."
Something else that I'm working on terribly hard:
"I often wonder if I'm the good guy or the villain. I haven't tried to be bad, but at the same time I didn't try to be good either. But now that I am turning the tide, and I am going to be a hero, I wonder if it's too late. i have too many enemies - perhaps that's why I have so few friends."
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THIS IS AMAZING. <3
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I had waaaaay too much fin making these:
Link to Large Image
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Two are for my main character, one is for her boyfriend, and one is for her sister. I'm not telling you which is which though.
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