30 Days - day 4

[graculus]

Okay, 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!). ;)

Comments

[leethet.livejournal.com]

See, your reaction is very interesting to me. I've been in rooms full of writers and nonwriters and when we talked about the character who sucks you away from what you mean to write because he/she insists on being written about, all the writers nod and smile, and all the nonwriters go "You pretentious freaks." You've really never had a story where you meant to write about A and B, and C,for instance, was a minor character in your intent, but you found he just sucked all your focus away from A and B and you wrote about him? Or you wanted him to do thing X and whenever you tried to write him doing thing X, the story went flat, because it simply wasn't right for him to do thing X (however necessary you felt thing X was to your plot)?

I'm not saying every writer must have had this experience, just that I can't remember meeting one who didn't. :-)

[cycnus39]

Now, now you're just being perverse. When writers say "this character won't talk to me" or "this character won't shut up and takes over everything" they really mean they are having trouble getting a handle on this character in this story/situation or they are having lots of ideas about this character they don't want to write about. And you know that. Stop being perverse, you perverse thing you. ;-)