The Unfortunate Bio of TheWalkingDaryl

I Believe You? (25/06/19)

Everybody take a seat and let's play a game of...How Believable Is Your Fanfic? Woo, yeah! Excitement, I can feel it from here.

I hope you all know that this is taking me out of my actual writing of my stories. Just so you know. No, I'm not updating this and stalling. I do actually have many good ideas for my stories, they just have to be...put into play, yeah?

This is something that's been bugging me for a while, but I forgot about it until the other day and I was thinking that maybe we should cover this vague topic because I need to update and when I don't write something that's on my mind, I slip slowly further into insanity.

This is a mind cleanse.

So to kick this off and into gear, I want to know, do people realise that...they're just stories, right? Someone has had an idea and they roll with it, even in fanfic.

Yes kids, that's right! It's all fictional! That's what a story is, no? Correct me if I'm wrong, but fiction is just that: fucking fictitious, as in, NOT REAL. Still with me?

Sure, some people may wish that these scenarios that are placed out before them in the world of words were true, that the hot hunk of a character you've written in, with his gorgeous dark brown hair, piercing blue eyes and a cute smile, while also being named Brandon, happen to be real, but alas, today is not the day for your fictitious boyfriend.

This' the thing, when it comes down to fanfic, you don't have to use every single aspect of the person's real personality when you create your character. In a way, you're really only basing your character on the person, because you don't know every single little thing about them in the real world, right?

I would hope not...

People seem to get upset when some fanfics aren't down to the tiniest detail with these people. I get it in some cases, but when you start nitpicking every small thing, then there's the issue. As I said, the character is just that: a character based on a real life person.

Yes, they have aspects of the actual person, but no-one's character is going to be exactly the same as the real life human being.

Shit, even if they were, we probably wouldn't know!

As a writer, you get a lot of free rein when you write and put your characters together. I want to talk a bit about characters in my stories and we'll obviously start getting off topic because that's just what this guy does and we should all be sued to it by now, so let me explain and break it all down for you. This may end up as a long post. I'm also probably going to put pictures in to break this up so it doesn't feel like we don't get any chance to breathe. 

Some may be relevant, some may not be. It'll be a surprise! I wonder how many people you can name by now when I put their pictures in...

I also have a list for the end, so keep reading to see what I happen to be talking about.