General Discussion

Every night I go to bed I continue a story in my head and every year I make a new character and every new year night my previous one dies I've been doing this for about 3 years and my character Alexander died yesterday (if you want more information on his life privately message me). I loved him so much I actually cried when he died my next character is Theago and I'm excited to start designing his life. Should I write my characters stories down into a real book?

I also have designed a bunch of characters and stories in my head! I've never actually gotten around to cataloguing and writing it all out but I really, really should.

oh yeah I have countless ones and still going, and it's fun to note them down even if it's just in unpresentable notes. I do sometimes put mine into actual comics or written stories, but until I get around to that I just write it all in notes or a script format.

I personally did a similar thing; each night I used to make up a story as I lie in bed. For me it was sometimes a different character each day, and sometimes the same one. Even if it was the same one, they could still die in the end each night, haha..
Nowadays I make my stories during the day too, (well, I did make them during the day before, too) and usually use characters I've developed overtime rather than making a new one each day.

also @FumblingNarwhal that's a really cool concept of the yearly character thing! But at the same time I think it should be ok for you to continue having a character if it's your favorite. Don't wanna let your fun turn into something that could be harmful to you ^^;;
I think it's perfectly fine to have decided a character's canonical death and yet keep using them as if it just hasn't happened yet, I do it all the time.

Yep main characters are a funny thing.. Writers are a funny thing too lol; we want a special, important death for our main characters, but at the same time we want to make them immortal. We write their beginning, but we want to write their end too; to know and create everything about them. And there's nothing wrong with bringing them back, or continuing to use them in a timeline before they died.

I mainly do it with my fandoms. All the time. Editing it constantly, never having a set timeline, 64% trash at least. 99% ships. I love my ships.

If you want to hear my ideas that haven't made it out yet, PM me for these fandoms:
-Hollow Knight (Sillsong Hype)
-Journey
-ABZÛ
-Splatoon (be ready for a whole lot of Callie/Dedf1sh)

I've actually got a *sheety* story I've been writing, but with only 23 pages :(

I have a whole lot of stories and concepts!

That yearly character thing sounds amazing...you should definitely write those down!

I've probably got hundreds of characters. It definitely started as a fandom thing (I remember when I first started this, it was a black butler thing where I inserted myself as an OC, as William's kid lmao) but nowadays I almost only use OCs. It's stupidly difficult for me not to go on and on about my favorite OC I've ever made, and his boyfriend. They're freaking precious and I love them to death. I will gladly write a massive block of text if anyone's curious. Feel free to PM me and you'll probably get information about this one universe that could fit like 2 pages on a Google doc, single-spaced...
And yes I meant this "one" universe. I have many. Very few of them are fandoms nowadays.
I'd love to write stories for my characters, I tried once, but I'm horrible with coming up with a plotline. I have my characters, I've been developing them for literally 8 years, so they're very fleshed out. The issue is... What are they supposed to do? What's the conflict? ;-;

I love making up stories in my head just before I fall asleep because sometimes it'll eventually get into my dreams. Also, helps me fall asleep quicker too.

I never write them down tho. I'm too lazy for that.