Do your characters talk to you?

originalhobbit wrote: When my creativity is flowing they don't talk to me at all, they just sort of tell my pencil or pen where to go. I know it sounds cheesy, but it's the only way I can describe it.

I find this to be generally true as well.

Yeeh. They talk.. but usually not to me, they talk to each other inside of me or one of them takes over my body when I'm walking home from the bus and they talk through me and act through me... It's good way of getting new idea's and getting to know your characters really

Couldn't have there been a simple "No" option with no strings attached? I neither wish my characters spoke to me, nor do I force them to talk. I just write.

So if we hear their voices in our heads, does that mean that we're mental? Just curious...

Personally speaking, when I write, my characters talk. I suppose it wouldn't necessarily mean they are talking to me specifically, but their voices are as true to me as my own.

So I suppose I would have to say yes.

My characters always talk, telling me what to write down about their story

carbonCore wrote:Couldn't have there been a simple "No" option with no strings attached? I neither wish my characters spoke to me, nor do I force them to talk. I just write.

The "No" option here wasn't mean to have any strings attached, I just wished to emphasise that it's the writer who gets them to talk (=writes). Sorry if I phrased it weirdly

Mine will never shut up. Sometimes they'll yell at me for not paying attention to them or they'll argue amongst themselves. They also like making commentary on everything I watch (TV and musical wise). Generally, while one's screaming their lungs out at me for being an idiot, another's in the corner, reading a book and ignoring everything. Though when they die in the stories, they retreat into a little room titled "Morgue." Weird sounds come out of that room >.<

They don't speak to me, not verbally. I write to them though and they write to me, if you get it. I have a whole journal of conversations with them all. Sometimes I talk to them out loud, but mostly we write to each other because they don't like my voice. -_-

They don't like the sound of your voice? Wow. I feel bad for you.
My characters talk to me, but only when they feel like it.

This is an awesome poll!
I answered as sometimes.
The poll is a really good idea. i kind of think that everyone's characters should talk to them. It makes your story fall in place. Brilliant idea! Keep up the polls!

my characters are like imaginary friends. they're all there and we have conversations all the time. and no, I'm not joking about this

Yes... curious indeed. My sister has heard me talking in my sleep about my characters,lol.

I like to pretend that it's my characters I'm talking to, but the truth is, I'm just ranting out loud.

My characters are always talking and they tend to randomly give me ideas about stories I should do changes I could make that would work relationship advice on and on and on. They also talk to each other and surprisingly get along(well most of them). As for being mental I think we all are isn't that why we're great writers?