Who is still fond of their MC, even now?

I still love all of my characters.
I have about five MCs, and I haven't started hating any of them yet.

I still like my MC :D And my MMC, and the supporting characters, and the villain (even though she's dead now). MC-love has stayed the same, but other-love has increased throughout the story.

I have a few new stories that have spawned from this. One is a romance between two minor chars that starts in the middle of Left but is completely off-screen and irrelevant to the Left plot. Another is part of MC's backstory, but revolves around another character whom I now adore but is only mentioned once and is also long-dead.

I don't know if I'll write more about my MC. Probably not for a while.

Gah. Just dropped mashed potatoes on my keyboard.

...and unyielding hope.

2006 :: won :: Whirled
2007 :: won :: Webwise
2008 :: won :: Left

Absolutely! I decided I was completely in love with my story and characters somewhere in the first week and I still adore them. I really hope I can come up with an equally enjoyable story so I can write a sequel or two after I finish this one (I think it will take about 60k to finish this draft so I'll still be working on it next week). I get a little sad thinking about finishing it because I've liked the story so much.

All that said, my story turned out way darker than anything I've ever written and I've been quite nervous to share it. I think it's a great story but I keep thinking, "Wow, did I really just write THAT? That's so gruesome...." (Though that's helped my word count because I just wrote two entirely different versions of chapter 27... the dark version, and the really really really dark version.)

Í still like my main character, even as I have just got into the darker side of his personality. I've also kind of fell in love with one of the supporting characters too. I ended up making her more prominent just because of the developing personality. I made a nice change in that I made her a strong female character with a demure side because of societal norms of the setting. Essentially she is accepted as a strong character because her strength is in a political advisory sense. She aids the main character on things like etiquette and navigating the treacherous waters of political intrigue.

I was fond of my MCs before writing, and now... I think I'm more so.

Don't get me wrong, I'm also a lot more exasperated with them, if for no other reason than that they dragged the plot off into increasingly obnoxious areas and wouldn't pay attention. But the only reason they could do that was because they were developing into people instead of stock characters. They're more flawed now, more understandable, and I love them a whole lot more for being that way. (I'd say "more human", but one of them is a tiger shapeshifter, and he's gotten more feline than vice-versa...)

I'd say I would wait for next year's NaNo to write more of them, but the truth is that I probably won't. I foresee a great deal of short stories and drabbles in this world, actually, though a lot of them will be fleshing out side characters that didn't get as much space. But my MCs have one more novel to go through before I let them rest.

I actually like my MC more now after writing about her for so long. And I have been trying to do one final push to finish by tomorrow and I just had a realization about what has to happen that in all likeliness is going to kill her off. I am so sad I almost want to stop writing! I don't want to kill her but I don't know how I can save her and not have the story end up really stupid. Grr. The only thing keeping me writing are these two things 1) I might find a way to not do it; and 2) my roommate promised to take me to lunch at this really great restaurant if I finished my goal. It is so sad that I am so motivated by food, but there it is. Deal with it.

So far, I'm still madly in love with my cast! That's a lot to say, especially considering that most of them have been around for four books now! The two characters that I didn't really like slowly found their ways out a couple novels ago (well... I went ahead and slaughtered one pretty badly. Oops?), but everyone else is still my buddy. Now that my NaNo is four short chapters away from being completed, I have the final book to write during 2009 and then my series ought to be complete. I do expect to get teary eyed over it, as it will be my first time actually completing and ENTIRE storyline. Usually, I refuse to stop because I don't want to let go of my characters, lol. I figure, if you can't love them, you can't expect your readers to, either.

2007 - Defilement (Won)
2008 - Despair (Won)

Craziest NaNo Moment (2007): Actually writing my novel while riding my horse. Best.
Craziest NaNo Moment (2008): Chugging through over a quarter of the NaNo word count in one night.

Here too, only I don't have the time to explore them that well since too much is happening and I need to speed things up. But my five main characters are still awesome (well, one is slightly boring, four our of five is a pretty nice score)

Heh, well at first I didn't like my MCs all that much... >.> The first one, Nicu, seemed to be trying to be a carbon copy of another character I was using recently. The second MC... well, once I got over the fact he wasn't as badass and loner-ish as I'd been hoping for, he is all kinds of cool in his own way. ^__^ So I actually like my characters more now.

I do!.....^^;
Its really...REALLY hard to not like Sloan.*^^* Even though he's going to die at the end and I held a personal victory party when I figured out how to do it, I still rather like him. He cooperates with me and gives me whatever I need. MC's should start taking a leaf out of his book.
~Laura

"Talk sense to a fool, and he calls you foolish."

I like my MC.

This is my second novel with the character and could easily see doing several more with the character.

I have 2 MC the both keep surprising me. Love em both

Thanks
SunHawk

i stil like my three MC's very much

I still like my MMC but i can't write about her anymore...i killed her

Sincerely Your Reliable Ninja
~XD~

The fondness is a weakness D: but yes :D

I still like my MCs.

My main viewpoint character is a little more outspoken than I intended to her to be, and in my rewrite I'll probably make her more consistent. As for my other MCs, I really need to develop them more. I rushed a little and forgot to include them, although one got a few chapters from his view, all of which I loved to write (big change from my main character.)

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
--- J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm glad I don't have to write so much every day anymore, but I loooove my main character. Unfortunately, I killed her in the end =( Well, I didn't *kill* her, but she's out in the abyss presumably never to be seen again - a fate worse than hell. ...yeah. She was originally going to be the villain but I liked her too much!

=)
Highest Daily Word Count This Year - 10,003 ~ New Record: 11/1/08
Characters in the Story - 16
Days with No Nanoing - 1
Characters Killed - 3
Characters Revived - 1

2008 ~ The Truth About Our Universes

I still like mine pretty well. In fact, I wasn't all that fond of him when I first started, but now that I know him better, he's a lot easier (and more fun!) to write!!

I still have some affection for Arbuthnot Lighter, but no one was ever meant to be fond of him; he is an opportunistic rogue, who constantly brags about his own (limited) achievments to the reader, and probably lies about his worse moments. But I have tried to emphasise throughout that he is no worse than most of the other characters around him. He has the great advantage for gaining sympathy that is the point of view. If I was to do the Memoirs of Captain Slopson, or Father Plip, it would be similarly revealing...

I am definately more fond of my MC and FMC now that the FMC has shaped up. She was a real pain in the behind for a while. And I killed off the main nasty charrie, so that's even better@

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

Of my two MCs, the first turned out to be the "be cruel to be kind" type, which I wasn't expecting. But he gives his heart away freely, and he'll do anything for those he calls family, and I love him for that, still. And the cruelty... he pays for that, later.

And the second, well. The poor man didn't ask for everything I tossed at him, and he spends 95% of the story being taunted, threatened, overworked, underappreciated, heartbroken, enslaved, and unhappy. And in the end, his happy ending is more of a, "take what you can get" than a true fairy tale... it's more than he expected much less than he deserves.

So, yes. For all the abuse I've forced them to suffer, they have remained wonderful characters, and I adore them.

My MFC is really getting on my nerves, but I love my MMC. He was kinda iffy when i started, but as he developes he just gets better I think.

"God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents." ~The Twelfth Night~

I have to say it, I still like my MC - which is good, because his story isn't finished, even though I brought my NaNo to a logical close. Why I still like him given how much emphasis I placed on him being an evil bastard, I'm not entirely sure.

I still really like my MFC. Actually, I like all of my characters more than I did before. They just grew into such wonderful people!

"...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." from Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

I love them. All nine of them.
Except for one. I hate her. But then, I set off to write a character that would be evil, and I succeeded.

Eh, I still love them. I've got five. And I love the villain. But he's dead!

So yeah. I'm a little less fond of them, but I could never hate them. x3

The innocent and naive will always be victims, until they are neither innocent, nor naive.

I still love my MC and looking forward to finishing the story and hooking him up with a secret admirer and all that...because he deserves at least one nice thing after all the stuff I put him through.

I particularly like my MC's mother, who has become so overwhelmingly funny/charming to me that I could almost toss out the MC on the second draft and just have it be about her...

***Yay Words!***

I love him more than ever! We'll be spending a lot of time together in December, probably January, and longer if it seems like a viable story from there.
So happy!

I've come to realize I love my main villain most of all :-P I made him tragic, I still wish he didn't have to die.

I still love my MMC. We've grown very close over the last month, though I still wish he didn't have to die. He told me there's no other way. I wish he wasn't right. Still, I didn't really face burn out myself. I'm going to continue working with him next month. YAY for finally being able to EDIT.

NaNo 2008 -- When the Raven Flies...