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Post by AngelicTragedy on Apr 9, 2016 22:36:09 GMT -5
“A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.” ― Mo Yan, Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh and Other Stories
I've been thinking about this lately and how it applies to our RP habits. We all have life experiences that have influenced our writing choices and styles. As for myself, I've finally realized why it is that I have a habit of writings militaristic and stoic characters.
I come from a family with roots deep within the United States army, Rangers to be more specific. My grandfather on my dad's side of the family served in Europe in World War 2 and my dad served in both the last few months of Vietnam and was also on the ground during the Korean Conflict. I was basically raised with what I like to refer to as a Privates point of view on things. Part of that was two big phrases that my grandfather taught all of us kids; it's better to be hung for a wolf than slaughtered like a sheep and listen twice as much as you speak but always carry a big stick. This lent itself to creating a family of stern, if not out and out cold, people.
I write what I know, and it's cold and militaristic.
What about all of you? I'm interested to see what you call have to say on this subject.
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Post by Loogs on Apr 10, 2016 20:34:33 GMT -5
I don't know if this is necessarily an influence, but for those of you who haven't read me wax about this on Facebook, here goes: So a lot of people over the years have accused Hector of being an idealized self-insert of mine, I'm gonna cite this quote from Pohatu's ratings from 2010 as an example: HECTOR: 3 Needs less Mary Sue. (I think. If a female author's male protagonist is overly idealized, is that a Mary Sue or a Gary Stu? Does the author's or the character's gender take precedence? This is deep.) And now that I've had time to properly reflect back on it, I think I've realized why: I worked out a lot of transgender and sexuality feelings vicariously through Hector. (Haha, btw, if I still haven't formally come out to anyone by now, here it is: surprise, I'm genderfluid! Also pansexual I guess) If I can explain it further: I suppose that I was living out a version of masculinity through him that at the time I wasn't really able to live out in real life. Hector is emotionally intense because I'm emotionally intense, simple as that. Uhh as for everyone else, I'm not so sure, sometimes characters get based on real life people that I know; Halley is loosely based around my friend Dein, at least visually (and in general greasiness: Halley's greasy because Dein's pretty greasy. And I want to clarify that I mean this as a compliment of the highest magnitude, I really do) That's all I got bruh
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Post by ch00beh on Apr 11, 2016 0:19:12 GMT -5
i'm really bad at emotions in real life
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