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[Caite-chan]

What do you guys do when you use a friends character in your story but then it doesn't go the way you had planned it?

*Insert tiny history lesson here*
I did have another person's character I was using but the person in real life turned out to be a ***** and that's being nice about it coming from me that is. So I said the hell with it I just won't use her ever again. Well in doing so that lost my characters only friend. So that left me with my other friends character but her character is stubborn and isn't easy to let people in. And it seems like no matter what they won't become friends which makes no since seeing as how their husband and soon to be boyfriend are BFF's. I mean I HAD to make another character just so my one wold actually have a friend but I didn't want to have to do that.
*End of history lesson*

So I dono what to do. It kind of makes me not want to write the story anymore.

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

What do you guys do when you use a friends character in your story but then it doesn't go the way you had planned it?

*Insert tiny history lesson here*
I did have another person's character I was using but the person in real life turned out to be a ***** and that's being nice about it coming from me that is. So I said the hell with it I just won't use her ever again. Well in doing so that lost my characters only friend. So that left me with my other friends character but her character is stubborn and isn't easy to let people in. And it seems like no matter what they won't become friends which makes no since seeing as how their husband and soon to be boyfriend are BFF's. I mean I HAD to make another character just so my one wold actually have a friend but I didn't want to have to do that.
*End of history lesson*

So I dono what to do. It kind of makes me not want to write the story anymore.

Write the character like you perceived your friend prior to your falling out. Our characters are based off of perception, even if we extract kernels of truth from the world around us. You are the dictator of your story. You create the reality. You are in control. Adjust the character accordingly.

That's the only suggestion I have for you.

[XaiakuX]

Try to play nice :P

You must not know me very well..

Write the character like you perceived your friend prior to your falling out. Our characters are based off of perception, even if we extract kernels of truth from the world around us. You are the dictator of your story. You create the reality. You are in control. Adjust the character accordingly.

That's the only suggestion I have for you.

Pfft. Tombi and I didn't talk for months, and I still planned on using two of her characters in my story. Although I helped in the creation of one, it was still hers. Thing is. though, she wouldn't have cared, because she's not a spiteful person like that. xD

With that said, Tombi helped me write most of my story in our role-plays. So without her, I wouldn't have a story. n.n;

[Sanctus]

Soooo, anyway, how's everyone's writing? :)

Kind of annoying. Still researching the FE characters because I haven't liked any of the ways I've tried to begin the story so far, and so to resolve that problem I may introduce them sooner than expected. I'd like for it to start out with a pretty intense action scene and try to get the whole story in microcosm in the first chapter, if possible.

Does anyone want to have a Word War next week to see who can write the most words?

I really just won't be able to arrange this right now. In the near future I may be getting an old computer for my house and some kind of an internet connection. We'll see. :|

What do you guys do when you use a friends character in your story but then it doesn't go the way you had planned it?

Keep using her if you can stomach it. Why not?