[ SECRET POST #3277 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3277 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Leonardo DiCaprio]



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[John Barrowman]


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[Jurassic Park III, Alan/Billy]


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Comments

Re: Confession thread

[(Anonymous)]

I started a nano project I didn't intend to do much with where out of not thinking too much about it I made a somewhat self-based protagonist with my name fully intending to change it in editing.

Funny thing is as I wrote this story they slowly changed from being simply a self-insert that's purpose was to be more or less an audience surrogate experiencing things to an actual character in their own right with their own background and a nickname slightly different and spelled differently with some personal reason for it (not a special snowflake weird spelling but just a variation on a common spelling different enough from mine). It's become a part of them, and now....I feel weird changing it. I like it the way it is and I feel like changing it would just be to appease people who might find out and think it's this or that.

And really that feels rather pointless. I think I wan to keep it the way it is because I see them as less being named "after me" and just sharing a name while being a character. I mean fuck, my name isn't just mine.

I don't take it offensively if people don't like them (a person I showed it to didn't . IDC Tried to fix what I could but not everyone will like it yanno) they have flaws I can see people disliking and they're not the most interesting person in the story (the plainest actually). I like writing them because they're the easiest to write, but I find other characters refreshing and interesting to slip into because they're cool and interesting for other reasons.

When I do get this published after a few more rounds of editing I plan on writing under a pseudonym (which i was going to do anyway to separate public from private life).

tl;dr- Gave my character the same name as me, apparently a big sin of writing. Do I feel bad? Not really. The character isn't me. Whatevs.

Re: Confession thread

[(Anonymous)]

I think as long as you understand that the character isn't you and are able to separate yourself from them. That's the important part.

If you can separate yourself from the character even if they have a name similar to you, more power to you.