Character Development

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   RubinLikes2Write
   RubinLikes2Write · Mar 16, 2009

   Try having the same characters in your head since 1st grade....*gazes off in the distance* its really weird cause when i finally started writing their story i realized that those characters were evil and much to complex to have three of them be my MCs' !!!!!! FRUSTRATION!!!!
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   peanutgallery007
   peanutgallery007 · Mar 26, 2009

   My characters have already taken over my life. I don't know who I am anymore, only who my characters are. It seems like my characters have locked me in a jail cell in the back of my mind! I cannot escape. Ooh, that's good for a poem. NOOO! I just thought of a poem for my character! Waaah!
   Any tips?
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   MuffinWriter
   MuffinWriter · Mar 27, 2009

   For me, one character has taken over all writing.
   
   Sabrina (some of the stories I write she goes by her middle name)
   
   ALL my stories involve her in one way or another. (You can go back as far as the messy picture book I wrote in kindergarten.)
   
   Especially lately, the more I write, the more I find out that the stories seem to include her in some way or another. One story, it was nothing more then Sabrina's mom in the story as the old dieing lady.
   
   Up until recently, she showed up only as a minor character or secondary character who's not mentioned much. If at all. Sometimes shes nothing more then the reason behind something.
   
   As I grow older, she USUALLY has grown older in my stories. I can connect to her easily, at times I feel I know her more then I do myself. There are times I've paused & asked myself; "What would she do?"
   I've began writing the best story I ever have. One from her point of view.
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   Eigee
   Eigee · Jul 5, 2010

   Oh... how I hate those three. First Elliot, whose name at first was Othello but I then realized it didn't quite fit him. Plus his background story which is pretty important for the plot is basically ALL WRONG. I might start rewriting the whole effing plot again! D: And then Lyvrea and Isadore. Ugh. I've changed their background stories at least five times and they're STILL not right! They're nomming my poor novel like there's no tomorrow! I'm sad and alone with those evil imaginary people. I've worked on them for a year; A WHOLE YEAR, and now it turns out they're not working right.
   Grrr.... I'm gonna kill somebody, probably it's gonna be them *death glares at her own imaginary people*

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