"You can have these back when you can treat them better."
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
United States
August 10, 2018 9:32pm CST
Have you heard this line before? Perhaps you've said this or similar to your own children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and cousins?
Perhaps you've heard others say it to their children? I'm sure I've heard it before, if not when I was a little girl playing not so nicely with my toys, than as an adult listening to mothers and fathers reprimand their children.
Of course, I am not referring to children at all. Or even "real people".
I'm referring to an author not playing "nicely" with their characters. I've heard the quote I posted in the title in reference to the characters in a book. I'm sure most of you have read a book, watched a movie or t.v. series, and thought the same way. The writer of the story is really abusing the poor character that you've grown to like or even love.
Have you ever wanted to call that writer up and say "Hey, I'll take these guys until you are ready to be nicer to them!" ?
I know I have.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
A lot of people do that. I may not write it down, but I often think up my own "happily ever after" scenario.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
12 Aug 18
@rakski Exactly. I used to read fanfiction quite a lot, I don't anymore. I grew out of that many years ago now.
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@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
12 Aug 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum oh and yes that one too. Like a good story for those abused and used character too.
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@thislittlepennyearns (58134)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
11 Aug 18
There are some books that I have felt this way about their characters.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
I started readding "The Woman in Cabin 10" and had to put it down. I'll pick it back up, but seriously? She was already causing conflict between characters I had hardly gotten to know.
@RasmaSandra (73441)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Aug 18
Sometimes I have felt sorry for the main character is some books.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
I just started reading "The Woman in Cabin 10" and I had to put it down for awhile. I ended up reading a few short stories in the meantime. The writer has already caused a rift between two characters, one of whom we've hardly met.
I don't think he will play a big role in the book anyway, but even so!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
I guess I am much more emotional about the characters.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
12 Aug 18
@JustBhem Oh, I do that too from time to time.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
12 Aug 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum
Sometimes I do too. But most of the time I think of the character as me.
@YrNemo (20261)
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12 Aug 18
Funny that you wrote this post. I am reading some books by a certain author right now, not because I like her stories, but only because the author must be nuts or something. Her characters are mostly acting stupidly, no moral but expected to be rewarded in the end. Since the lady was born in the 1920s, I have been thinking, perhaps people think differently or something back then? (or this author thought she must follow a certain format for her books to sell well! 
) Some people did make similar conclusion about this author's boks on the internet, so it must be true, that she liked making weird & psycho characters.
) Some people did make similar conclusion about this author's boks on the internet, so it must be true, that she liked making weird & psycho characters.@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
12 Aug 18
It might have been a combination of those things. Books are a reflection of the author, so maybe her putting pen to paper was the catharsis she needed in her own weird and crazy life.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
13 Aug 18
@YrNemo Well, I wouldn't want to be a teacher, let alone a high school teacher. 
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@YrNemo (20261)
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13 Aug 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum 
(she was a high school teacher, she taught English)
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@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
11 Aug 18
haven't heard of this line before but this line is a good way to tell someone out of being rude.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
I'm not sure I follow? How does it help someone tell someone not to be rude?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
I hadn't thought of it, but I am sure.
Especially Sherlock Holmes, whom I happen to love wholeheartedly.
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@LadyDuck (458091)
• Switzerland
12 Aug 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum I can barely imagine what happened when the character was killed.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
11 Aug 18
What fun is it not to get personally invested? I mean, okay, I'm not that crazy. I don't get so worked up over it all the time, but it's definitely frustrating from time time. Like the book I just started, the author is already ripping on a character that we haven't been really introduced to.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
12 Aug 18
@Courage7 Could be, would be a great way to do it too.
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
11 Aug 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum Perhaps the author has some anger issues trying to resolve then thru writing lol
