Your characters after they are done being written

[ADirtyPerv]

Along these lines, what happens to all the characters in stories that get set aside half finished? Are they getting irritable at us. "Come on. I was just about to get lucky and you decided to write another damned incest story?"

I could see an uprising out of @StillStunned's WIP folder.

OMG no, I've had one guy poised at the entry for months because I thought it was too easy. He'd be livid.

 

[UnexpectedLuggage]

My characters are fantasized versions of people I know. So on their own, they continue to exist exactly as I wrote them.

Now, if any of those people saw the stories I'd written, they'd probably shudder and be disgusted with me.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

For the most part, my characters are probably not what could be considered particularly complex or memorable, and they don't really exist outside of the story. After they have served their purpose in whatever bizarre scenario I cooked up, into the refuse heap they go.

 

[MrHereWriting]

"Do your characters behave the same after they're done being written?"

Characters aren't thoughts personified.

 

[Djmac1031]

Do you ever feel like you've taken a character for a walk outside of what they would do themselves?

Quite the opposite in fact.

While writing the second chapter in my series The Jenna Arrangement, I had Jenna suddenly falling to her knees, blowing the main male character Tom then jumping on his lap and fucking him.

It was a hot scene. But deep in the back of my head, I could almost hear Jenna protesting. "No, this is way too fast. Its only the second time I've met him and it goes against everything you've established about me in part one."

She was right, and I rewrote the scene completely. I did save elements of it for a later chapter though, when it felt more natural.