30 Days - day 4
Jul. 5th, 2011 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusOkay, so it's technically day 5, but who's arguing?
4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?
I've read this a couple of times and have absolutely no idea what the question is going on about. These are fictional characters, folks, either of someone else's imagining or my own and therefore anything they're getting up to is coming out of my subconscious if I'm not immediately aware of it.
Otherwise that way lies marriage on the astral plain and so on (see icon for what Snape thinks of that!). ;)
4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?
I've read this a couple of times and have absolutely no idea what the question is going on about. These are fictional characters, folks, either of someone else's imagining or my own and therefore anything they're getting up to is coming out of my subconscious if I'm not immediately aware of it.
Otherwise that way lies marriage on the astral plain and so on (see icon for what Snape thinks of that!). ;)
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Date: 2011-07-06 01:23 am (UTC)To me, this is the same thing. I'm not sure about the intent of the original question, of course (the language is odd, to me - "muse" and having the story take an unexpected turn are two different things), but to me, stories sometimes take on a life of their own (something that surprises me a bit when it occurs to me, and wasn't planned). Sometimes that's a character doing things that weren't planned, sometimes it's a new plot twist (that sounds like what you're describing??). Obviously all that is coming from the author's head, but that's was how I read the question. I didn't read it as channeling, probably because that's certainly not how I write, but I've known at least one person who feels she's channeled her characters (it was original fic) - that they're speaking to her in some way that was kind of beyond my ken. :-)