using_blather_for_personal_gain kookaburra i was trying to develop a character for a story that i am trying to write. but i need to think of how she would react in different situations. so if you could help, that would be great. but if you don't, then the love of your life will ignore you, you'll have seven years of bad luck and youre a horrible person. dont take my word for it, just ask all those other people who didn't forward this chain-i mean help me out 040614 ... Sa Give me the situation... I don't want bad luck...please let me help... 040614 ... kookaburra oh no- i meant i need situations... hmmm... maybe i shouldnt write this thing. cant even make a simple request clear... or maybe i will, cuz thats what editors are for, right? 040614 ... SA you need situaton ..sounmds like you need a story. Do you have any ideas... 040614 ... Sa You could write my story.. all about me. I would make an interesting character.. 040614 ... sab email me $5 each just feed the bill into your A drive and happiness can be yours! complete happiness, for only $5 what more could you possibly need? you want more? i'll give you more. i'll supply you with a love of your life, to arrive on your doorstep within 7 days of posting me the money. i'll supply you with intellegence, charm, beauty, wit, fashion sence, and the rude bits of your choice and size all for five bucks! FIVE BUCKS!!! plus, all the drugs you could never need and all the diplomas you'll ever want, and the best african countries money can get. all for five bucks. so feed it into your A drive NOW!!! and soon everything in the world will be yours to have and to hold 040614 ... Connecting..the.dots.. Have you ever gotten an "if..." book? Those throw out great if not sometimes odd ball situations but by answering the if book (or any books by Evelyn McFarlane) as your character you could help better define and developed her to figure out who she is and what she would do in different situations. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=McFarlane%2C%20Evelyn/104-7133979-6881521 Example questions: you could commit one crime without being caught, what crime would you commit? If you found out for certain there is a Heaven and a Hell, how would you change your life? If you had to select the sexiest word in the English language, what would you pick? If you could have any single Hollywood celebrity be your slave for a weekend, who would you pick? 040614 ... spiffy http://www.lifeformz.com/idea/idea.cgi 040614 ... minnesota_chris kooka, I'd say to base your character on your best friend, or your family. Imagine two people you know meeting each other. Or a person you know going into a situation you know. People will argue with me, but I say we can only write about things we know. 040615 ... minnesota_chris and don't trust anyone who can't spell intelligence. And especially don't trust Australians, they're scurrilous. 040615 ... stork daddy you could use me as your character. i've decided i'm much more a character than a novelist. the great american novel isn't going to be written on paper anymore. 040615 what's it to you? who go blather from