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Date Posted: 17:04:37 10/10/02 Thu
Author: Buffy's vampire
Subject: Re: Hi BV..
In reply to: Ralph Hamilton 's message, "Re: Hi BV.." on 14:08:49 10/10/02 Thu

>Hi brata masta,
>
> Yu lukim long posting bilong mi daunbilo. Long en
>toksave, long site or forum ownership.
>
> I find the whole process fascinating. Don't you?
>
> Sort of what happens to me when I write. The
>characters take on a life of their own, and end up
>nowhere where I intended them to. So much for planning.
>
> This probably doesn't happen to you. For you give the
>impression of having planned the ending, before you
>wrote the beginning. Must be lovely to have a
>diciplined mind.
>
> The mind seems OK, I think, just my imagination gets
>out of control. Who knows?
>
>From the gatekeeper, at the Valley of
>Indecision......Ralph.

Did you get my email? I mentioned in fact copied letter from publisher to me ...they are publishing my novel! At last! So I agree. Characters etc on these forums are indeed characters and develop their own feelings, etc. M Brat, on WF, almost got it right a few weeks ago, when he was trying to put BV down. He began quite well in what almost certainly was copied prose [re Liebniz, the German [Prussian] philosopher] and then he took over with his own writing and suddenly it was all amess mish mash mush...

As an author [how bloody wonderful it is now for me to be able to say this] I relish the feeling I get as my characters take over. They are definitely NOT mini Adrians but are separate beings, out of control of the author, but somehow managing to stay within certain parameters I set when I begin to write.

I went for a cupla years as four separate characters on a foreign forum until I deliberately gave the game away. You shudda heard the ruckus...betrayal...boo boo! It's definitely weird!

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