Writing Doll's Backstories or Just Stories

[Mirrin]

I have a pretty grand mythos for my dolls that they're all interweaves into together. Occasionally I get to writing down snippets of their lives for fun and put them online as original fictions not actually stating that they're about my dolls' characters because... well, I don't know how many people would get that or care.

Anyway, I was curious if anyone else did that sort of thing and if you shared them with people or online.

I wish we had a creative writing for 'dollieh's section sometimes... just because I think it would be fun to see what you all do with yours, outside of the general doll profiles.

[famedglory]

I write out parts of their stories but no one outside of myself will probably ever see it. All my dolls fit into the same universe and are all tied in with each other. If I ever get around to it, I might graphic novel it out, but I doubt I will.

[Stormlight]

Gabriella and the Shadow King are actually the two main characters from a novel I've been writing, which I post online on a few different writing sites.

Puck is a doll that inspired another novel, which I'm also posting online. I don't have dolls for the other characters yet, though.

Everyone else has backstories and many tie together, but I haven't actually written their stories out as anything more than character notes and such, so nothing of them get posted, except in their bios and such. Perhaps that might change in future, though.

I agree. A section for dollieh writing would be awesome. Resinality has something like that, but it's pretty dead nowadays. I don't bother posting much over there anymore.

[Nella]

I started planning out a story while waiting for Fleur, so yes, I write little short stories with the characters that my dolls represent. If I share on my Livejournal, then of course it's obvious by the tags that my characters are also my dolls. When I did NaNoWriMo though, and posted a paragraph for critique, I didn't mention that the main character of the story was a doll I own.

I guess then, if I'm posting in a space where I know there are other doll owners, then I might mention that hey, you know my resin crew are the characters. When I'm explaining to people what my dolls are, I usually mention that they're all characters in stories I write.

A dollieh writing section would be awesome!

[Linteia]

I have stories and back stories for most of my dolls, though most of them aren't written down. Keep meaning to get to that part. I used to write and post it all the time but it's been years, long before dolls that I stopped. Other than Genesis the stories come from the doll itself rather than being a shell for a preset character.

[Alopecia No Hime]

I have actually written little snippets about my dolls characters. Just this morning I wrote one about Arcani and my other dolls I use their characters in a roleplay setting so parts of their bio's like their future careers are from it. I like working on their stories and eventually wanna do a novel featuring some of them.

[Jany]

My dolls are characters from a story I've been playing with for the past 18 years. (Gods, I feel old now ) So I've written about "them" quite a lot ... I'm planning to transform parts of the story into photostories once I've got enough of my crew home. So far I've never shared anything from the story with anyone because it felt too incomplete, which it was because it's constantly changing and morphing and developing. Currently it's getting yet another makeover, basically being rewritten from scratch as photostory script.

Most of them will be pulling double duty as I've got an idea for a fantasy-based story too. I've got the characters and setting worked out, but that's still very sketchy and more of a side project that happened because I'm a fantasy geek and I need a justification for adding elves and hobbits to my collection (dollection? ) at some point. (But as the ones I need for the other story are higher up on the wishlist, elves and hobbits likely won't happen before 2015.)

[Evelien]

I hardly ever share my dolls' backstories at the moment. I've got everything in my head. I want to start doing a photostory now that I have my Narae though, just need to finish my dollhouse ^^

[DollyKim]

It started out with the first batch of Littles being elf creatures from a story, as a more came in I tried to fit them in, then I got Little Walken and there was no place in that story for him so my dolls became the actors in the stories.

Now it just depends on the doll on how big the story is. Xavier and family have a long one, going to publish this year, Rian takes his name and pronunciation from a story that is still looking for it's footing. Sometimes it's as simple as Cupcake being Roger's daughter.

[coloredimage]

The only characters who don't really have a backstory are my Resinsoul Minis.

But, let's see. They're all a part of one of two stories that are interconnected. Estella, Coralina, Evienne, and Myrddin are part of my Fenn storyline and are from an island off the coast of France that has put itself under self-isolation since the 19th century.

Evienne and Myrddin also come to play my Unseelie storyline: They are the adopted parents of my (currently unshelled) Unseelie Lord, Elijah. Jack is Elijah's business partner, Colum's his son-in-law, etc. If I wrote everything out it would be way too long.