Will you ALL just shut up!?!?

ccarver30 · Mar 29, 2007

Do your characters keep you awake at night? Mine do all the time! I feel like I am a 1st grade teacher and they are alll fighting for my attention.
Be quiet, you brats!! :PartySmil

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icerose · Mar 29, 2007

Yes, my characters have woken me up out of a dead sleep because there was something they had to say that just couldn't wait until morning.

Moon Daughter · Mar 29, 2007

Nope, can't say that they have. They know I'll hurt them. :-D

scarletpeaches · Mar 29, 2007

You know that jerky-awake thing you do; you have the falling sensation and then ARGH! Awake?

If I have a character's motivation pootling around at the back of my mind, somewhere on the border of awake/asleep, I get it and jerk awake and think, "Ah, so THAT'S what you want!"

PeeDee · Mar 29, 2007

Nope, never happened. I must not "live" my novels as much as you people...

thethinker42 · Mar 29, 2007

PeeDee said:
Nope, never happened. I must not "live" my novels as much as you people...

Amateur...

Akuma · Mar 29, 2007

I spend the entire day trying to keep my Muse in line and then she'll do something that's just totally something she would do.
Like barge into the bathroom while I'm taking a shower to ask for a glass of water. Or wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me she wet her bed.

Really, the things I do for her. . .

AnnieColleen · Mar 29, 2007

That's why a notepad lives by the bed!

Ignoring them just makes them noisier... (kids or characters, either one!)

johnzakour · Mar 29, 2007

Nope. I think of ideas for my characters in the middle of the night but I don't hear (or pay attention to) the characters themselves when I am not writing.

Angelinity · Mar 29, 2007

no. they fear me.

i get prayers and offerings though.

Niteowl · Mar 29, 2007

PeeDee said:
Nope, never happened. I must not "live" my novels as much as you people...

johnzakour said:
Nope. I think of ideas for my characters in the middle of the night but I don't hear (or pay attention to) the characters themselves when I am not writing.

Double agreement here.

I've never had this issue. Perhaps my characters are more dead than alive. Perhaps I should consider writing Zombie Paranormal Romance (as opposed to Zombie Romance, which is just creepifying).

"Braaaiiins... and TRUE LOOOOOOVE."

PeeDee · Mar 29, 2007

Niteowl said:
Double agreement here.

I've never had this issue. Perhaps my characters are more dead than alive. Perhaps I should consider writing Zombie Paranormal Romance (as opposed to Zombie Romance, which is just creepifying).

"Braaaiiins... and TRUE LOOOOOOVE."

......I love you.

Kentuk · Mar 29, 2007

My characters would never wake me. They like to play when I'm away.

miles · Mar 29, 2007

Nice title to your post. Here I am thinking we were in for some controversy, and it's just a question about hearing characters.

Might as well answer: I do hear my characters. I've been pretty much living my book for a year, so that's understandable, right?

Anonymisty · Mar 29, 2007

Mine tend to want my attention when I'm driving or taking a shower.

Just for fun, once, to entertain my critique group, I wrote a short story in which all of our characters came out to fuss at us about how they were being written. It was interesting to play with the characters that way, and it helped me understand a couple of mine really well.

RumpleTumbler · Mar 29, 2007

Sometimes my female characters start grabbing my ding dong.

I say things like "stop that!" I don't really mean it though and they know that so they just ignore my pleas.

maestrowork · Mar 29, 2007

Nope, they go to bed when I do, and they also know if they don't shut up, I'm gonna wallop their asses.

Pagey's_Girl · Mar 29, 2007

Oh yeah, especially one in particular - problem is, he knows he's so bloody cute that I can't get mad at him, so he totally takes advantage of it.

maestrowork · Mar 29, 2007

Pagey's_Girl said:
Oh yeah, especially one in particular - problem is, he knows he's so bloody cute that I can't get mad at him, so he totally takes advantage of it.

I told you I was sorry....

RG570 · Mar 29, 2007

I can't say my characters talk to me. They're completely unaware of my existence.

FredCharles · Mar 29, 2007

Moon Daughter said:
Nope, can't say that they have. They know I'll hurt them. :-D

I agree. You have to keep them locked up somewhere and not let them talk...espcecially when I'm not there to hear what they are saying...

scribbler1382 · Mar 29, 2007

What's sleep?

PeeDee · Mar 29, 2007

scribbler1382 said:
What's sleep?

What women do during sex.

RumpleTumbler · Mar 29, 2007

PeeDee said:
What women do during sex.

I've never experienced this. Perhaps this only happens at the Tzinski homestead? :roll:

Raphee · Mar 29, 2007

nope .

Will you ALL just shut up!?!?

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