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That’s a lot, haha. I bet many of them are siblings to the protagonists.
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I don’t know how some of you people write romance novels. I have a new respect for y’all, because this is exhausting. Not bad, just exhausting.
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@whalekeeper to be fair I don’t know how I did it either.
i think I honestly just pushed my characters into a plot together and said “you two are gonna like each other by the end of it, trust me.”
"When in doubt, eat cheese crackers."-me to my charries who don't even know about cheese crackers
Mine are all on the back burner right now because I either have no plot, or I don’t want to do the amount of research the plot requires. 🙁 My main WIP has three romantic subplots though.
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Is it just me or is KP not letting us change our profile pictures :/
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Here’s a weird thing I realized while reading the portals story and I need to tell someone. Do you guys actually picture your characters’ faces in your minds while you write them to the point where you could recognize them if you met them irl?
No I can’t either.
I just looked it up, and apparently your brain can’t come up with faces on it’s own. According to google:
The brain cannot generate a face that is completely novel, meaning one that contains features or combinations it has never encountered before
The brain relies on a vast library of facial features gathered from real-life observations, including faces seen in passing, in photos, or even in artistic representations.
While artists can create original faces on paper, they are still drawing upon the visual information they have stored in their minds, either from direct observation or from studying existing faces.
Here’s another thing I found that’s interesting:
Your brain retains countless details from your environment, and in dreams, it can combine these fragments to create the faces of people you’ve never consciously met but have glimpsed in passing.
Honestly with all this information, it makes perfect sense that we can’t just generate pictures of our characters in our minds. Either we don’t know we’ve seen the face before (like we’ve seen faces in passing but never met them) or subconsciously your brain is combining faces that you know, and you don’t realize it.
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(the real ones will know)I’ve always been able to clearly picture mine.
This is really interesting to me. Like, you can clearly see their facial features as if they were real, and as if they were standing in front of you? Is it vivid or fuzzy? Were you only able to picture them after you drew them or did they sort of just pop up in your mind one day?
Did you ever look at reference pictures on Pinterest? Because that’s what I do and it’s the only reason I somewhat know what my characters look like?
Sorry I’m rapid firing questions at you lol I’m just really curious now ??
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(the real ones will know)After my google searches, now I’m a little sad, because it’s scientifically proven that your brain can’t come up with original faces. So although our character’s personalities are original, their physical attributes are not ? it’s really cool but also a little sad lol
Another quote from google:
your brain cannot make up faces in a truly new, original sense. The people and faces you see in your mind—in dreams, in fictional stories you write, or in your imagination—are all drawn from a vast library of faces you have already encountered.
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(the real ones will know)Not that I believe everything on google…. but I do know my characters share slight resemblances to people I have seen or people I know, etc. But it’s a bunch of different teeny, tiny parts.
I see them very clearly, and so drawing them is sometimes really easy, and sometimes almost impossible. Actually, finding faceclaimes on pintrest is really hard because I rarely find one that looks like my character.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music
Actually, finding faceclaimes on pintrest is really hard because I rarely find one that looks like my character.
ME TOO THOUGH
Sometimes it’s so obvious, like I find one exactly like one of my characters, but I still haven’t found one that looks like Lilitu or Sef ?
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(the real ones will know)Like, you can clearly see their facial features as if they were real, and as if they were standing in front of you?
That’s how it is for me.
?For our Blessed Lady's sake, bring us in good ale!?
That’s crazy, honestly I wish I could do that XD
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(the real ones will know)That’s a lot, haha. I bet many of them are siblings to the protagonists.
Well actually yeah, pretty much! ?? Siblings or (school) friends lolol.
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P.O.V.
You might live in some old murder mystery because on all the main roads in the town and the highway leading into it, there are these strange stains of dark red splashes on the road that cover the road for about five feet as if someone poured a big bucket of whatever it is on the road. There is one stain on each of the main roads and two on the highway.
Very odd.
Gets weirder when two of those stains turn dark green over night.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music
Is this POV yours? Real life local mysteries are unironically the best thing ever, unless they involve people getting hurt. I had a missing criminal hanging around my mailbox one time. Those things are the spice of life.
You should research what chemicals might change colors like that.
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