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Date Posted: 22:49:44 08/29/24 Thu
Author: JeffsFort
Subject: Welcome to "My" world!
In reply to: JeffsFort 's message, "IMAGINE Magazine Question for 8/15" on 01:51:57 08/27/24 Tue

For me, it's been common to learn that a story is based on real experiences after finishing the read. Typically in some form of an afterword or even as a way for the author to sum up the experience writing the story. I've done that myself and mainly because I wanted people to know that there was more of "me" in the main character than originally planned. Honestly I think more often than not there is some non-fiction wrapped up in plenty fictional works out there. For me it lets me know that I actually got to know the author a little better than I had planned on going in on page one.

I can think of a few stories over the years where I really felt for the main character. (MOE is a great example of that) Where I learned that there was more truth than I had bargained for from the real world, and that does kind of justify my real emotions toward this fictitious character. It has the added bonus of allowing me to get to know the author. The story half becomes the author's way to confide in me a piece of their own personal history. Doesn't even matter that it's out there for the general public, it feels personal to me. Having been on both sides of the keyboard, I have received feedback about one of my own stories that at the end I explained the origin of the bad situation I wrote about and it appeared to touch that person enough to want to connect further. It's a very real connection and maybe we are a little more prepared to make that connection when the words "The End" severs our tie to the situation we had become attached to. I like to think it's a way to take others on the same journey we are on and give the reader something to take away from the experience.

As for making the character more endearing: If the story is heart felt, it comes across to most as just that. Even without that explanation. So the characters are already endearing to me at least. Comsie is a great example of that because after reading a couple other stories and then learning some specifics of where a personality trait originated, or a friend was based on a real person from his past, or even if the entire character was 100% fictitious, I was already attached to the character. Learning that some part of what I already loved came from him, means I got to know the author a little better and where it generally comes after the final chapter, it actually makes me feel closer to that author's "real" world, not just that one character. Which is a whole other level of cool for me

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Come on peeps we need more answers please!! (NT) -- Dom, 12:23:11 09/06/24 Fri

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