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Posted By: Talon Sinnah Mar 29, 2005 - 07:39 am

Has anyone else had so many ideas and characters in your head that you feel you have a severe case of split personality? I think I do because at times I will zone out while thinking of how to write a situation in a story and it will seem as if time left me some how when I finally come back to reality.


P.S I would not recommend doing it while driving.


Bmat or Magus, I was going to put this under problems with writing but could not decide if it would be considered writers discussion. So I will let you decide.

Posted By: Neurolanis Mar 29, 2005 - 02:03 pm

Ah, not exactly. lol. Sometimes I've had trouble getting a character out of my head. I have been told that I have multiple personalities. Not literally, of course. But one moment I can be really funny, the next serious, the next eccentric, the next emotional, etc.

Posted By: Talon Sinnah Mar 30, 2005 - 08:37 am

Oh I have those problems to except it is not instentanious. I usually do not get eccentric though. Then there are those times when I talked a lot for a short period of time then I was extremly quite the next time around. I believe my friends find it rather annoying.

Posted By: Neurolanis Mar 30, 2005 - 12:48 pm

I'm the same way, and my friends get annoyed with me too. People like to pin you down, name tag you right? When you're this and then that, people get frustrated with you. Maybe they think you're toying with their minds, or otherwise being dishonest with them. No one can get inside this head, I promise you! I am many different things. Some people like that, most just get annoyed.

Posted By: Talon Sinnah Mar 30, 2005 - 12:52 pm

Playing with the mind is always fun I guess that is why I had few friends in scholl, but the ones I did have I did not toy with and we had loads of fun.

Posted By: Neurolanis Mar 30, 2005 - 01:29 pm

lol.

Posted By: aldan Mar 30, 2005 - 08:35 pm

"Simple labels for simple minds."

I've striven to just do enough different things to be labelled as "weird" by the simple folk, and to be considered interesting by those less simple.

Posted By: Magus Apr 04, 2005 - 06:27 pm

I get this feeling not so much by having so many characters, but by having so many deviations of them. Look at my characters in Lycoria or in The Streets of Bizmar. Each of them are characters from stories I plan on writing. Each of them are really the same people, but they're not. Subtle differences make them entirely different throughout the stories.

For example, in my epic, Shabel-Rae doesn't have a love interest, as he does with Hex. He has is comrades but no actual love interest, after his fiance is killed when he was Sabel-Grah. Jacatour developes romantically with Cheesor The Mad, who journies with Bellemine Dragnus, from Streets, without any romantic involvement. Thomas does indeed become that Rabbit/Human creature, but far far later in the story. And Jacatour himself plays more of an active role, although it still seems that Shabel-Rae continues to be the more active.

I do mannage to find ways of justifying it all in my own mind to appease that little voice shouting:

"NO! Shabel-Rae doesn't have any romantic involvement! Jacatour is more this way and Shabel-Rae more that way! Thomas is still a Hare at this point in the story!"

I just think of it in terms of The Dark Tower. Because, after all "The are other worlds then these."

Posted By: Neurolanis Apr 04, 2005 - 07:31 pm

I have to say it would be SURREAL for me to see Shabel-Grah or Jacatour in a story somewhere, like in a magazine or something! Here I've been communicating with them all this while, and then BAM, they're on a page. These characters are well-developed. I suppose Jacatour impresses me the most.

Posted By: Magus Apr 05, 2005 - 05:00 pm

Thanks. Just out of curiousity how so? It would be nice to know what I'm doing well or not so much so, as I use them to help know them better for when I start writing for them.

And, just out of curiousity, is anybody from Lycoria besides myself planning on writing your characters into a book or whatnot? I can see many of them in just that kind of situation.

Posted By: Spiderkeg Apr 06, 2005 - 07:23 am

Because of the theme in my story, I have to have 32 distinct characters... 16 for the good, 16 for the bad.

So I'm right with you there. I can be both frustrating and fun, but sometimes you lose yourself too.

Posted By: Magus Apr 06, 2005 - 12:55 pm

32?!?!?!?!

GAH! So... many... characters...

Posted By: Neurolanis Apr 08, 2005 - 05:43 pm

I'm an intuitive person. There's something about the way that your characters TALK especially that just sets right, especially with Jacatour. He has a distinct, strong way of talking that never seems to waver. Through his words you come to feel that he's speaking to you. Honestly, especially with Jacatour it's like I hear him speaking and not you writing him. That's exactly how I hope I wrote characters in the novel I'm typing. I wouldn't want to analyse Jacatour's speech, I just like listening to it.

In my novel I have a character glossey of 200+ names.

Posted By: Talon Sinnah Apr 09, 2005 - 07:43 am

Don't you mean "glossary".

Posted By: Neurolanis Apr 09, 2005 - 08:31 am

Yeah.