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>Does the face fit is my sole criteria.

One of the most bizarre things about fan fiction that I have seen is castin= g actors
to "play the roles" of the characters that are really the
products of the w= riter's imagination.
I never thought of doing this.  When creating the "Athena"
characters, I si= mply sat down
with a piece of paper and a pencil and drew, saying "that is what the
chara= cter looks like."
I might be influenced by people I see in the real world, or memories of
the= m (Commander
Johnson is like this) or in one case, a photograph of some author I saw in
= the newspaper
(Matsubra was like this, and later, I learned this author was also named
Ma= tsubara).
In most cases (Bayanhong, Vorwoorts, Indesakar and all the alien characters=
) came
strictly from my own mind.  I guess that's how I decided what the
character= s look like,
by how the pencil travelled.

I'm not knocking other people basing the appearance of their characters on = actors.
They probably do it for the reason that Michael does, for photo
manipulatio= ns.  On the
other hand, I don't think I would be satisfied in any picture I would find.=
  Ever since I have
been on-line, I've searched for a picture of a character who has appeared
i= n stories I
have written since 1984 (non-Trek), but in hundreds of pictures I have
look= ed at, I have not
come close to one that resembles her--yet I can draw her at will.  I'm just=
 not up on actors.
Other than George Cloony and some other (Vivian Chow?), the names that are
= coming up
are completely unknown to me.  People ask me about movies and describe who = is
playing in them and I draw a blank.  The title of the movie comes second. 
= I'm just not
clued in on actors.  I don't think there's been a single movie or
televisio= n show I watched
because I liked the actor or avoided because I hated the actor.

It's just the way I am, but fascinating topic of conversation nevertheless.

Steve
The Universe Unbounded.

Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com


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>Does the face fit is my sole criteria.
 
One of the most bizarre things
about fan fiction
that I have seen is casting actors
to "play the roles" of
the characters that are
really the products of the writer's imagination.
I never thought of doing
this.  When creating
the "Athena" characters, I simply sat down
with a piece of paper and a pencil and drew,
saying
"that is what the character looks like."
I might be influenced by people I
see in the real
world, or memories of them (Commander
Johnson is like this) or in one
case, a photograph
of some author I saw in the newspaper
(Matsubra was like this, and
later, I learned this
author was also named Matsubara).
In most cases (Bayanhong,
Vorwoorts, Indesakar and
all the alien characters) came
strictly from my own
mind.  I guess that's
how
I decided what the characters look like,
by how the pencil
travelled.
 
I'm not knocking other people basing the
appearance
of their characters on actors.
They probably do it for the reason
that Michael
does, for photo manipulations.  On the
other hand, I don't think I would
be satisfied in
any picture I would find.  Ever since I have
been on-line, I've searched for a
picture of a
character who has appeared in stories I
have written since 1984 (non-Trek), but in
hundreds
of pictures I have looked at, I have not
come close to one that resembles
her--yet I can
draw her at will.  I'm just not up on actors.
Other than George Cloony and some
other (Vivian
Chow?), the names that are coming up
are completely unknown to
me.  People ask me
about movies and describe who is
playing in them and I draw a
blank.  The
title
of the movie comes second.  I'm just not
clued in on actors.  I
don't think there's
been a single movie or television show I watched
because I liked the actor or
avoided because I
hated the actor.
 
It's just the way I am, but
fascinating topic of
conversation nevertheless.
 
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
 
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
 






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