I think you're one of the only people here who has payed enough attention to know what Selebus really meant when he says that the characters write themselves.interesting that Selebus says that "I swallow my pride" cause the characters need to be true to themselves, like he didn't literally send said character to be passed around as a cumdump for 19 years immediately after Chika forced him to change his script
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I see through you, Selebus. You aren't foolling me.
That last quote from Sel, about the characters writing themselves... Props. A lot of writers don't listen to the characters and that's almost always a bad idea. My characters are constantly taking me in unexpected directions, usually better than whatever I'd penciled into my poor excuse for an outline.
Oh, boy. The Amy event. The mall. The mall. :shudder:
I think it speaks to the quality of the writing that characters might go against the intentions of plot, since they matter to the writer. It’s part of why they matter to us, too. They aren’t just puppets of the writer; instead, they take on a life and character of their own, so it makes them much more relatable and deep as creations. And considering Sel is intensely conceited, for him to admit that characters take priority over his own ego is a point of relief and positivity, given his usual assholish nature.That last quote from Sel, about the characters writing themselves... Props. A lot of writers don't listen to the characters and that's almost always a bad idea. My characters are constantly taking me in unexpected directions, usually better than whatever I'd penciled into my poor excuse for an outline.
Now, mind, with a cast this big, and so full of... highly eccentric folks, I can also imagine the cast's muttering driving Sel nuts.
Or more nuts.
We call that character growth, folks
