Ariel Ashira

@rochellaine

Sorry, my computer ran out of battery, but I’m back again!

Yes, I definitely base characters on people! Usually not purposefully though. I usually just realise, oh! So and so is a lot like so and so.

But I love when those disclaimers are in historical fiction novels, where the characters sometimes are real people.

@seekjustice Well, I don’t base all my characters on real people.  Just some of them.  But I do learn about character traits and behaviors from studying real people.  And I’ve always been sure every other writer does as well. 😉

@seekjustice

Hahaha!! 😛

I always think disclaimers that say “none of the characters are based on any real people” are ridiculous, because I totally base my characters on real people.

How else do you write realistic characters?? 😛

I wonder if it’s like the copyright laws, like, if you change ten percent of them they don’t count as based on…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Maybe authors should start putting disclaimers in the front of their books:

We do not condone the behaviours of any character that seems slightly antagonistic, and nor we do take any responsibility for any of their evil deeds.

I know, poor Curt didn’t deserve anything that I forced him to endure.

Yes, it’s such an entertaining way…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Oh no, they can’t! 😛

Of course he didn’t.  Sweet little Curt.  Poor little Curt. 😀

Have you ever been on the TV Tropes website?  It’s hilarious.

@rochellaine

People don’t actually expect us to take responsibility for our bad characters, do they?

Well, of course Curt did none of those things. Because he was a small angel. He definitely fell into the disabled angelic character trope that I see so many people complaining about 😛

@seekjustice

Not a chance!! 😮  I shall protect my characters! (but if the mean characters hurt them, that’s not necessarily my fault. 😉 )

😛 Ah, don’t worry.  I completely understand! 😀  I used to be extremely melodramatic in my writing, so a lot of my old bits contain characters who gasp and shriek or sob every few sentences.  It’s act…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Unless you become ruthless. Like me 😛

Haha no. But he might as well be, down to the fact that he’s Irish and has an accent. But he’s a character from a very old book of mine (and don’t even bother asking to read it, because. Nope. No chance. No one is ever reading that thing).

@seekjustice

Haha!  At least we know she’ll survive, right? 🙂

A character so completely perfect that I cringe now.

…in other words, Quillon? 😉 😛

@rochellaine

Poor Bathshua. She doesn’t deserve any of the things you throw at her (ah, look at me. Such a hypocrite!)

I’m currently reading over a really long and old character sheet I filled out for a character so completely perfect that I cringe now. I’m supposed to be taking the questions and filling out the sheet for another character…[Read more]

@seekjustice

Bathshua is doing okay, the darling.  I got some good planning in over the past couple of days, and now have a clearer picture of how to get her where she needs to be.  But in order for that to happen she’s going to have to go through a lot. 🙁

Right now I’m working on a secret writing project, but I’ll get back to Daughter of J…[Read more]

@rochellaine

It’s two o’clock, so I guess it is afternoon. And yep, I’m free for a bit. How are you? How’s Bathshua going?

@seekjustice I see. 🙂

Ah yes, I remember. 😀

Are you on now, or still celebrating your birthday?  (It’s technically “afternoon” for you, right?  But you didn’t say you would be on, only that you’d possibly be on.)

@catwing Thanks 😀

@rochellaine

I think I ended up watching all of it, but over several weeks and not in chronological order 😛 I know, we’ve discussed Dirk Bogarde before 🙂

Yep, I look forward to watching it properly.

@seekjustice Wow, that’s cool!!  You’ve seen a bit of it on YouTube, right? (I think you said you skipped to the end.)  The guy who plays Sydney Carton (Dirk Bogarde) is one of my favorite actors.

So you have it on DVD now?

@seekjustice Happy birthday!
Glad you found it. 🙂

@rochellaine

Thank you! I am indeed. And guess what? My mum managed to track down a copy of the 1958 version of A Tale of Two Cities, which I hadn’t been able to find anywhere. I was pretty excited about that.

@seekjustice It’s your birthday?!!  Happy birthday!!!!  You’re turning eighteen, right?

@rochellaine @ariel-ashira I’m here for a little bit. A short story thing popped up today and the deadline is the 10th. (I don’t have to do it, but the deadline was extended, so I’m thinking of a story idea to fit.)
I was sick for a few days. That’s why I was gone. 🙁
But I’m better now.