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5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
I’m going to take this one out of the realm of fanfic, and plop it down into my real writing. I have a character named Denver Sinclair that I created for a Vampire the Masquerade game. Denver was a ton of fun to RP, and then the bastard decided that he wanted more, passing right into Muse-hood.
Denver kept nagging at me that he likes Vegas. He should be in Jace’s book. Jace’s book would be better if he was in it, and I let him have his way. The biggest problem was that Denver was by his nature a much better character than Jace, and he pretty much chewed his way through her to turn the novel into a story all about him. I let him do this since I’m an organic writer. I don’t plan my real writing anymore than I do my fanfic or RP. I let the characters decide what they want with sort of an endgame in sight.
Then one day I was watching the History Channel where they were running a show about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, and Denver whispered in my ear. “Y’all know I was there, remember. You should tell my story.”
So I wrote a short story that was rejected far and near because I was told it should be a novel. That novel is the one being published in September. It’s called Dead Man’s Hand, and it’s about Denver’s struggle to survive the earthquake, the fires and the bitch who sired him.
The moral of this story – if your muse thinks he’s right about a story, he usually is.
As for the fanfic answer to this question: Where do you think all those crossovers I write come from?
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I’m going to take this one out of the realm of fanfic, and plop it down into my real writing. I have a character named Denver Sinclair that I created for a Vampire the Masquerade game. Denver was a ton of fun to RP, and then the bastard decided that he wanted more, passing right into Muse-hood.
Denver kept nagging at me that he likes Vegas. He should be in Jace’s book. Jace’s book would be better if he was in it, and I let him have his way. The biggest problem was that Denver was by his nature a much better character than Jace, and he pretty much chewed his way through her to turn the novel into a story all about him. I let him do this since I’m an organic writer. I don’t plan my real writing anymore than I do my fanfic or RP. I let the characters decide what they want with sort of an endgame in sight.
Then one day I was watching the History Channel where they were running a show about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, and Denver whispered in my ear. “Y’all know I was there, remember. You should tell my story.”
So I wrote a short story that was rejected far and near because I was told it should be a novel. That novel is the one being published in September. It’s called Dead Man’s Hand, and it’s about Denver’s struggle to survive the earthquake, the fires and the bitch who sired him.
The moral of this story – if your muse thinks he’s right about a story, he usually is.
As for the fanfic answer to this question: Where do you think all those crossovers I write come from?
( the rest of the questions )
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