Poll: Is this weird or do you do this?
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Oh, yeah, I used to do this, especially as a younger kid. I think maybe that was because I used to play more sidescrolling platformers and watch more shows with superheroes/superpowered people back then? Sometimes I imagine or notice other stuff, but I think it comes from the same place.
As I got older, I usually tended to pass time more by thinking more about things I was going to do or by listening to music, and I think I still do that, but sometimes I think The Tetris Effect gets to me and I start daydreaming about the sort of thing you said OP. I also do it way more when I'm tired, because it means I'm not thinking about something else, and I'm way more likely to associate the purple spraypaint I see on the train tunnel with the game of GTA: San Andreas I played the night before and mentally pretend I did the "Grove Street" tag over it, or think about the game of Assassin's Creed I'd been playing and imagine Altair or Ezio free running around on the rooftops by the train tracks.
As I got older, I usually tended to pass time more by thinking more about things I was going to do or by listening to music, and I think I still do that, but sometimes I think The Tetris Effect gets to me and I start daydreaming about the sort of thing you said OP. I also do it way more when I'm tired, because it means I'm not thinking about something else, and I'm way more likely to associate the purple spraypaint I see on the train tunnel with the game of GTA: San Andreas I played the night before and mentally pretend I did the "Grove Street" tag over it, or think about the game of Assassin's Creed I'd been playing and imagine Altair or Ezio free running around on the rooftops by the train tracks.
That must be inspiring...Cypher10110 said:Getting inside your character's head? Or is your character getting inside yours?ThreeWords said:
I do the same thing, but my "arch-typical character" will usually be just the most recent, I tend to drift between characters as the months go by.
Current one is an orc samurai that I'm writing about, who takes a coming-of-age test that includes picking up his destiny where his ancestor left off - a trial by fire kinda thing. It makes me feel really ashamed of being so lazy, when I can imagine what he'd be thinking and doing. Every moment of his life is filled with ritual, formality, or training, every second designed to teach him what he will need to pass the trials.
And I can't even get out of bed and feed myself, because I'm too lazy. Oh well, back to daydreaming, haha.
I find that while my characters change, there's almost always certain people somewhere in the story who has certain traits, like an echo in my imagination. And it's that echo-character that lives many life alongside me and builds himself out of my mind.
You must lead such a boring life...The Human Torch said:I can safely say that I never ever done this. You people need to get some help.
This is all completely off topic but interesting stuffThreeWords said:That must be inspiring...Cypher10110 said:Getting inside your character's head? Or is your character getting inside yours?ThreeWords said:
I do the same thing, but my "arch-typical character" will usually be just the most recent, I tend to drift between characters as the months go by.
Current one is an orc samurai that I'm writing about, who takes a coming-of-age test that includes picking up his destiny where his ancestor left off - a trial by fire kinda thing. It makes me feel really ashamed of being so lazy, when I can imagine what he'd be thinking and doing. Every moment of his life is filled with ritual, formality, or training, every second designed to teach him what he will need to pass the trials.
And I can't even get out of bed and feed myself, because I'm too lazy. Oh well, back to daydreaming, haha.
I find that while my characters change, there's almost always certain people somewhere in the story who has certain traits, like an echo in my imagination. And it's that echo-character that lives many life alongside me and builds himself out of my mind.
I enjoy talking about writing when I get the chance; it's fun to explore other minds ^^I understand what you mean about similar traits popping up often. I guess alot of the time I idealize the characters, or sometimes I deliberately give them trait that gets in their way. I tend to draw upon past experiences and reflect them through these echo-personas. Writing is always an exercise in using your experience and imagination in tandem. "What if things were different?"
All good writing has some of your soul in it. When you write, you end up using a combination of your experience and imagination to make characters; you could write about characters you meet in real life, you might write about yourself, who you were once, who you are now, who you could be, who you want to be.
I have a pool of experiences and references that I draw on. Some traits tend to find their way into my work alot more than others, simply because I feel strongly about them.
So there is always a part of me in my writing too, my echo-self. But its not always the same part. Sometimes I chose to remember times when life was easy and I was self-confident, righteous, and arrogant. Other times I remember when I was wounded; filled with self-pity and regret. If there is an experience (direct or indirect - things that have happened to you directly or to another character in another fiction) that can be drawn from to write, use it, bend it to your whim ^^
TLDR;
Keep using your echo-self, and drip it into your work. For every experience in life will leave it's mark in the pools of your soul. Draw always from this pool, but don't forget to add your imagination to it's contents. Your work should inspire you. It won't always, but sometimes when you breathe life into something, it breathes back a little. It's what started me writing in the first place
No... but I'm going ot now damnit. XD
for me, when I go through long tunnels with tile like walls, I imagine a fantasy life for me on them like its a highlight reel.
for me, when I go through long tunnels with tile like walls, I imagine a fantasy life for me on them like its a highlight reel.
Yes, boring and without any imaginary people around me.ThreeWords said:You must lead such a boring life...The Human Torch said:I can safely say that I never ever done this. You people need to get some help.
I do this too. Especially when I've got nothing to do and I'm just sitting in the back of the car.
I do all like, free-running and crap around stuff.
I do all like, free-running and crap around stuff.
i completely do that!!! this is so weird. i mostly imagine someone really fast, like quicksilver, or the flash, but never them personally
Y'know what? We could use someone like you in here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Writer-s-Bloc], where we like to call ourselves authors, and people occasionally actually write stuff =DCypher10110 said:This is all completely off topic but interesting stuff
I understand what you mean about similar traits popping up often. I guess alot of the time I idealize the characters, or sometimes I deliberately give them trait that gets in their way. I tend to draw upon past experiences and reflect them through these echo-personas. Writing is always an exercise in using your experience and imagination in tandem. "What if things were different?"
All good writing has some of your soul in it. When you write, you end up using a combination of your experience and imagination to make characters; you could write about characters you meet in real life, you might write about yourself, who you were once, who you are now, who you could be, who you want to be.
I have a pool of experiences and references that I draw on. Some traits tend to find their way into my work alot more than others, simply because I feel strongly about them.
So there is always a part of me in my writing too, my echo-self. But its not always the same part. Sometimes I chose to remember times when life was easy and I was self-confident, righteous, and arrogant. Other times I remember when I was wounded; filled with self-pity and regret. If there is an experience (direct or indirect - things that have happened to you directly or to another character in another fiction) that can be drawn from to write, use it, bend it to your whim ^^
TLDR;
Keep using your echo-self, and drip it into your work. For every experience in life will leave it's mark in the pools of your soul. Draw always from this pool, but don't forget to add your imagination to it's contents. Your work should inspire you. It won't always, but sometimes when you breathe life into something, it breathes back a little. It's what started me writing in the first place
haha, sounds fun ^^ThreeWords said:Y'know what? We could use someone like you in here [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Writer-s-Bloc], where we like to call ourselves authors, and people occasionally actually write stuff =DCypher10110 said:This is all completely off topic but interesting stuff
thanks dude