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[wired_lizard]

Final edit of Notes on the Ease of Hypnotizing Time Agents, the second in the Unnamed Series of Shameless AU BDSM Master/Doctor/Jack PWPs With Geekporn and Long Pretentious Titles (USoSAUBDSMM/D/JPWPWGaLPT

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[cktraveler]

1. Have you ever had what folks refer to as muses? i.e. characters sortof taking on a life of their own within your imagination. (I personally define muse status as a character commenting upon the fic you are writing about them; in other words, a muse is a metatextual mental construct, or something along those lines. Or, if you don't write fic, perhaps they comment upon the source material they originally came from, or their crazy fandom, or so forth.)

I've had characters where writing them felt automatic, and where I had a little nudge telling me when the voice was wrong. I am able to, with little effort, "introduce" these characters to one another, visualize them in any situation, and so forth.

Aside from original characters, this happened with, at minimum, Severus Snape, Auron, Anthy, Kozue, Mikage, Spike (Buffy), the Master (Doctor Who) and Bernice Summerfield. It's also happened twice with LARP characters

[jadesfire]

I'm a shy soul who's been lurking around here, trying to get up the courage to comment on your fics (see shy soul statement above) but this questionnaire intrigued me enough to tempt me out of lurker status. Having broken the ice, I can now go comment freely :)

[apologies if this is long, but I get enthusiastic...]
#1 If someone comes up with a way to make Jack shut up, I would pay good money. Especially since he's a bad influence - I now have a few Torchwood Original Characters (a family - Hugh, Marion and Hywel Jones) who seem to have caught the bug and taken on lives of their own. They don't so much look over my shoulder as look up at me from the page and go "You really think we'd do that? Twpsyn!" (Welsh for idiot. They're Welsh. I'm not that random

[mattador]

1. YES. Not always, but repeatedly. Hell, I still have a Draco muse from, uh, five years or so ago.

2. Temporarily. That is, when I was writing him most, the voice in my head was aware, but it didn't seem to last.

3. Um, not on me, but on each other, yes. And emphatically, yes.

4. Maybe once or twice, again, several years ago.

5. Not that I know of. Not beyond very clear visualization, at any rate- I never got the sense that it was literal, just that the mood was very well conveyed and the other person understood.

6. Not really applicable, and I would be far more inclined to credit a Jungian collective conscious/unconscious.

[kaiz]

1. Have you ever had what folks refer to as muses?

Yes, I write, but I confess, I have never experienced the "muse" thing. *pout*

[nevacaruso]

1. Absolutely. In each fandom I've been in (with the possible exception of Firefly), there's been at least one. In each case, there’s usually one that’s far more talkative/persistent than the others. In most cases, they feed me bits of back-story or “what-if” scenarios, with the occasional, “Okay, you people are writing what about me?”

2. A resounding “yes.” Charles Xavier reached this level, and stayed there for, oh, about three years. I think that Jack did as well, but much more briefly. Currently, Ruka is quite aware that he’s a mental construct, thank you very much. (Witness my complete lack of surprise at his thinly disguised enthusiasm for new levels of meta.)

3. ...No. Not really. I had such an intense love/hate attachment to my Charles-muse that sometimes it felt like a romantic relationship, and while some moments register as masturbatory in retrospect, mostly it just seemed very strange (eventually). Consequently, I've pointedly avoided the issue since then. That hasn’t stopped several of my muses from