Wow. I've never thought out my own thinking/fic-writing process like this. But I think writing fiction with human characters has a sort of unofficial standard procedure, which calls for various degree of communication in some form with the "characters."
Most of the times, I can't write fast enough, which is why I tend not to plan ahead except the barest bones of the plot. If I work out the details in my mind, I forget what they were pretty quickly, get frustrated, and give up.
But with the "muse-space" (and this is really Emily-san-ism in my mind, because you're the first person I've known who shares that part and does it believably AND humorously), the characters tend to be more real, more vivid. I have a friend who RPs Fuuma from X/1999, and she once wrote out all the little quirks and habits her Fuuma-muse had, and it was detailed to the point I could almost imagine there really was a person like that. Of course, her impeccable grasp of canon was what made this Fuuma believable, but her details were simply unbelievable.
It's kind of like your Yukimura. There's the canon Yukimura, and there's Emily-san's Yukimura, and I think I'm in love with yours more than with the canon. Yours is actually more believable and well-developed than canon (come on, canon doesn't give Seii-chan more than ten pages), and I think even Konomi-san will have hard time topping your Seii-chan. Conclusion: you're amazing. ^__^
I think there really is a trick to hauling the character-shapes and also the communication far enough "up" into the waking and verbal consciousness. Once they're up there it gets easier to remember what the characters "say" long enough to sketch out plots and so forth. Of course, that's also when they start getting obtrusive.
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Most of the times, I can't write fast enough, which is why I tend not to plan ahead except the barest bones of the plot. If I work out the details in my mind, I forget what they were pretty quickly, get frustrated, and give up.
But with the "muse-space" (and this is really Emily-san-ism in my mind, because you're the first person I've known who shares that part and does it believably AND humorously), the characters tend to be more real, more vivid. I have a friend who RPs Fuuma from X/1999, and she once wrote out all the little quirks and habits her Fuuma-muse had, and it was detailed to the point I could almost imagine there really was a person like that. Of course, her impeccable grasp of canon was what made this Fuuma believable, but her details were simply unbelievable.
It's kind of like your Yukimura. There's the canon Yukimura, and there's Emily-san's Yukimura, and I think I'm in love with yours more than with the canon. Yours is actually more believable and well-developed than canon (come on, canon doesn't give Seii-chan more than ten pages), and I think even Konomi-san will have hard time topping your Seii-chan. Conclusion: you're amazing. ^__^
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I think there really is a trick to hauling the character-shapes and also the communication far enough "up" into the waking and verbal consciousness. Once they're up there it gets easier to remember what the characters "say" long enough to sketch out plots and so forth. Of course, that's also when they start getting obtrusive.