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Do you influence your characters?

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julilly:
I think I definitely influence my characters. Karen can attest to this but when we used to write fic back in "the day" (aka high school... omg I'm old) the characters would be SO overwrought. It was just full of drama they would fight CONSTANTLY because we were overdramatic teenagers.

As I grew older and got smarter so have my characters and I find now they use a knowledge that they never would have before.

As far as emotionally I don't know if they do as much. If I'm in a shitty mood I just won't write. I usually have to be in a really positive mood to write. I also sit in complete silence because if I turn on music I'll end up listening to music not writing and I'm not a tv person.

mare:
I can't write with anything else happening either. I need complete silence.

Purpura Lipstick:

--- Quote from: julilly on March 21, 2012, 05:31:38 PM --- (aka high school... omg I'm old)
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oh please ... lol you are not old!

Speaking of fanfics in high school, the boys really first became big (in the US) while I was in high school and so Amanda (Murasaki) and I wrote what we called The Notebook.  We would write in different color pens for each character and pass it back and forth.  I'd have to write based off of what she wrote and vice versa... and yes DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA because of that high school mentality.  that fanfic has been trashed as of, January I think I finally tossed it then.

Sakabelle:
You guys are so brave to write at work! I wouldn't ever... not even on my lunch break lol I'd be terrified of the guys at my work catching me and I'd never, ever live it down!

I still have a binder full of my high school fanfics. It was very much the same as yours, Lore where my friend and I would trade back and forth and write. I don't think I'd ever have the heart to throw them out though. I'll just keep it in my BSB bin haha.

RokofAges75:
I'm in the same boat as Tri as far as writing at work goes - I don't even have time to think about fanfics in the classroom, let alone attempt to read or write them!  Once in awhile, one of the kids will say something that makes me think of something in a fanfic, and that is always good for a private laugh inside my head.  Today one of the kids was reading a book about the state birds, and I heard him laughing with my student teacher about the state bird of Delaware... before she even said it out loud, I thought to myself, "I bet it's the blue hen."  Sure enough... blue hen.  Writing Broken gave me that little tidbit of random trivia; I never would have known that otherwise LOL.

But anyway, props to those of you who can write at work!  I love my job, but sometimes I wish I had a job where I could do things like that LOL.  My summer job in high school was like that, so I've had the experience of reading fanfic at work... just not in a long, long time!

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