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Melissa’s Very Long List Of Favorite Ships (in order of ship name) Lucas Sinclair and Max Mayfield. “You’re cool and different and you’re super smart. And you’re, like, totally tubular.”
[text]: All I need is to get out and get laid. [text]: Dude, I’m at a wedding and there’s a mashed potato bar and bacon strip appetizers. I’m getting all emotional. [text]: I need to get some goddamn control over my hormones. [text]: We went there specifically for you to break it off with him and I walk in on you two in the bathroom with his dick in your mouth, [text]: Yeah but who says we can’t be shitfaced and tan at the same time? [text]: Is it weird to invite your FWB to thanksgiving dinner?? [text]: Hey, before I head out, whats your policy on casual drug use and one night stands? [text]: I just want orgasms and emotional validation. Is that too much to ask? [text]: I think I fucked the doubts about us out of him. [text]: If you’re gonna show up unannounced on hangover day, you better have coffee, doughnuts and a boner. [text]: Fuck it, I work hard. I deserve nice sex toys. [text]: The guy in front of me in Walmart is buying a blowtorch, potato chips, and condoms. I’m curious and horrified at the same time. [text]: Being an adult is fun. You can experience a break up, then go fuck someone else in the woods. [text]: So I got cockblocked by our relationship status last night. [text]: Woah don’t start going all boyfriend on me now, you’re here for one thing and one thing only and that’s sex. Hot shameless sex. [text]: This is the fourth time I’ve taken my clothes off for money this year. Is that normal for the average college sophomore? [text]: I think everyone at the office can tell I’m dehydrated. [text]: Just had a reminder come up that just said “Ham”. [text]: It stopped being casual for me when I waxed my vagina for you. [text]: He called out my ex’s name during sex. [text]: I mean, you’ve had my nipples in your mouth now, so I think we’ve reached a certain level of friendship.
[text]: Refresh my memory – were we forced to leave or did we choose to leave? [text]: I didn’t even know we were hiding from the cops, I was just playing with the cats. [text]: I suppose that kind of helps fill the void where my self respect used to be. [text]: I am literally watching TV with sunglasses on because the brightness hurts my hangover. [text]: And you know what the worst part is? Because of him I can now relate to a goddamn Taylor Swift song. FUCK. MY. LIFE. [text]: I was just informed that I asked for a glass of wine at the police station. [text]: I’d call the fact I ended up in my own bed a huge success. [text]: I swear if you help me with this I will eat you out and buy you all the Taco Bell you want. [text]: It was horribly awesome. It’s like looking at the sun: you know it’s bad for you but you just can’t stop looking.
this is actually a really good question to ask. i can only give so much advice though, because what may work for me may not work for you and that’s okay. but i can definitely give you some pointers that have helped me in the past.
work backwards – it may sound weird, but it’s a good tip. start with your character’s personality, their desires, their behaviour and traits before you get to the backstory. why? because having what they have now out in front of you will help you decide what in their past contributed to the person they are now. it’s really important to make the connections with them now with things that happened in their past.
tvs, movies and books are your friends – one of the best ways of figuring out your character’s backstory is well.. getting inspiration from other characters. again, have the person they are now figured out before hand, then delve into the possibilities given to you by other writers. just be careful not to subject your character’s personality etc. to any change just to fit a different backstory. if you like an idea and it doesn’t work, the best thing to do is compromise.
analyse other characters – often i choose a character my muse’s face-claim has already played and i analyse them and their backstory. but whatever and whoever you choose, learning how to analyse and understand the influence that a backstory has on someone is the best way to choose yours carefully, and it will also give you the skills you need to make something more unique.
focus on relationships – again going back to the whole ‘past them influences present them’, come up with certain relationships your muse could have had previously. basic things like did they have two parents or a single parent? two gay dads? how many friends did they have in school? from there you can ask yourself what the dynamics of their relationship with these people were like and how it affected them. (eg. toxic single parent + toxic relationship = your character’s reason for being self destructive in the present)
clich-yay or clich-no? – one of the hardest decisions to make when coming up with backstories for me personally is deciding how predictable i want to be with my character. if you want their story to be different and ground breaking, steer away from obvious tropes that are laced into some backstories.
your major events – these should be the most important as well as the most thought out part of your character’s backstory. i suggest there being a major event that shakes their personality, their career and their relationships. just because they are major events doesn’t mean they need to be angsty or dramatic, they could be quite happy. but these events would definitely be something that shaped your character’s life more than anything.
structuring the backstory – when writing my character’s backstory i would often start at their birth and sometimes i would go a little further to before they were even conceived to what their parent’s relationship was like beforehand. (eg. a character with parents who were childhood sweethearts could be a firm believer in love, ultimately this shapes their outlook on relationships and should be included for the cause for the effect.) then i would move onto the family dynamic if applicable, then who they were and what happened in school, then high school etc. until you reach present day.
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