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concerto49
Topic: When my story no longer was a story...
I once thought a story was a story. It was words on paper or wherever they are now (doh electronically on some so-called drive). Do words speak for themselves? Does anything have a finite sequence? If nothing ends, and anything is possible, what became of me and my fantasy worlds?

Sometimes I rather believe I'm my character in my story than who I am in real life, but then I won't be able to write my story anymore and then my main character won't live on. It's so contradicting. Someone help!

#1 Jul 09th 2007, 10:24pm
Fractured Illusion
You mean, that if you feel like your characters, you can't write?

I feel quite the opposite! It is almost always that when I am in their shoes, in their minds and personality that I can write something. So it appears strange to me that you can't write because of this :/

Suggestion: try to mentally distance yourself from the character(s). How? Well... see yourself as an observer of this person, like one would with another person. Try your best not to think you are him/her, but think *about* him/her with as much objectivity as you can muster.

Hope that made sense...

#2 Jul 11th 2007, 11:17am
concerto49
No, I think I was not clear enough then.

If when I became so the character in my story, I won't be able to write on because I'm no longer the writer, but the character in the story. It's as though I'm the main character and not the one that gives him life. It's a little confusing, a little like you've went to another world and became someone else for the time being and hence you in the original world won't continue and vice versa when you come back.

#3 Jul 11th 2007, 6:12pm
Fractured Illusion
And you can't distance yourself? Man, how tough! O.O

If you for example write from a third person point of view, try to go into the role of the omnipotent (sp?). To me it really sounds like you need to put some distance between you and your character, as being too close is affecting your writing ability...

#4 Jul 12th 2007, 1:58am
concerto49
Yes, I've dealt with it. I dealt with it by going 4th person, but then I was too far into my old stories to do something about it, so I started a new one. Not that I won't finish it either.

It's not a story too besides 4th person. It's a feeling - someone is a feeling, might sound odd, but that's what's different about it.

#5 Jul 18th 2007, 6:37am

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