I write weird things. And weird people. Tell me how weird this is....

[MiniMandaRuth]

In one book, I have:

A bisexual vampire who wants to become a rockstar.

A straight human girl who has an obsession with cookies and Mardi Gras beads, and is terrified of cats.

A confused Fallen Angel who isn't evil.

A gay Angel who is stalking said Fallen Angel.

An evil vampire who likes to eat cherries.

And a plethora of others.

My friends have just brought up the oddness of my characters... How odd do you think they are?

[ZombieNixon]

1. I take unusual, twisted pleasure in writing death scenes.

So far, I have (completed): the first lady of a fictional country dying in a horrific car crash, a starship captain flying a superweapon into a star, a former spy being incinerated by the man who fathered her children, that same guy being shot by his own daughter, the galactive ruler being decapitated while trying to perfom martial arts and the physical embodiment of primordial evil being beheaded andd bisected by an electrically charged sword.

Oh, and a reference to a guy getting his brain liquefied by an alien STD due to incomaptible biochemistries. :rofl:

And at least ten other major characters have to die that I haven't written yet. :evilgrin:

[MiniMandaRuth]

2. The last death sounds rather... interesting....

The worst way a character died was he was hit by a coconut falling from a very tall tree. It cracked his cranium.

[ZombieNixon]

3. Who says death can't be fun?

:evilgrin:

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. The question you should ask yourself is, "does it serve a plot purpose?"

Weirdness for it's own sake is rarely enjoyable reading, IMO. Lots of writers make the mistake of thinking that they are being creative by coming up with increasingly bizarre and off-the-wall characters/scenarios, but without a coherent purpose, it just ends up reading like a rejected Monty Python skit.

For example, the girl who is obsessed with cookies and Mardi Gras beads - is there a specific reason she is obsessed with them? Does that reason have any bearing on the plot or the backstory or her relation to other characters? Will it tie into events that will happen later in the novel? Or are they just two random objects arbitrarily chosen by you because they're "weird"? If the latter is the case, I would strongly reconsider your character. Randomness is only funny when it's spontaneous and not forced.

I certainly do not intend to be disrespectful or condescending with this post, and I hope you take it as it is meant - I assume you wanted feedback, since you posted this on DU.

[MiniMandaRuth]

5. In her character, she had some trouble in her earlier life.

Her obsessiveness with something gives her something to hold onto. Such as, she will always have a necklace on, so she'll grab onto it when she's scared. She just loves cookies for no reason. Also, her fear of cats is completely reasonable. Her older brother dressed up in a cat costume one halloween and scared her.

Feedback is power.

[WildEyedLiberal]

6. Well good luck with your story!

And keep writing whatever comes to you. Writing is a lot like athletics - it takes a lot, a lot, a lot of practice to hone your skills.

[tinfoil tiaras]

7. When I was younger and semi had drunk the RW koolaid, i wrote stories

about these kid secret agents that went to Afghanistan and kicked Osama Bin Laden's (& other Al Queda people's) butts. But they weren't completely propoganda b/c I always depicted Dumbya as a stumbling, bumbling idiot that was the fictional uncle of one of the secret agents or whatever...:rofl:

[MiniMandaRuth]

10. Mary Sues!

(sorry, I used to do the same thing. It's fun, isn't it?)

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. Haha yeah

I wrote like freaking book series about these people. And the stories were really weird. They had a time machine, I remember and went back wards and fowards in time alot. And they had some other machine that told them exactly where Bin Laden was. They always caught him. I guess it was me hoping that Dumbya would eventually catch Bin Laden. I was really into Afghanistan and was uber disappointed (for among other reasons) that Dumbya wanted to go into Iraq.

[nuxvomica]

8. I read a novel called "Vampire Junction" years ago

It's about a castrated vampire who becomes a rock star so I don't find your ideas so odd. If you're going to write vampire stories, please include their obsession with counting and their tolerance of daylight (except at noon). I don't think there's enough of that in vampire lit, at least what I've read.

[MiniMandaRuth]

9. There's not enough.

And not enough stuff that's actually literature. Most of it's just porn. But I am in the process of reading Cirque de Freak which you might find interesting.

[Skittles]

12. good enough for me to kick yo' ass, Mini

I'd read it for sure :7

[MiniMandaRuth]

13. Yay!

That's good. :D