Comments on: Smart Writers Recycle

By: Maggie Carroll

Maggie Carroll — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:18:40 +0000

I’ve recycled the Castelletti family several times. In the Firefly RPG, they were a crime syndicate that had control of New Vegas, a moon rumored to service any and every vice you have, so long as you have the currency to pay for said service.

In a short story I’m writing, Joey, a low-level enforcer, works for the Castelletti family.

And in my I WANNA DO LASER entry, the “main” character is the daughter of Don Castelletti.

By: Marek AKA DawnOfMinstrel

Marek AKA DawnOfMinstrel — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:46:26 +0000

The current WIP, The Phantom Reader, re-uses a whole SETTING: the city of Random, one of the ten biggest cities in the country, which you can find on any map, but which you never really visit nor do you know anybody from there. The city has a devil which lives in the park (a devil. Not the Devil. I want to go back to those glorious pagan days when evil thought globally, acted locally), an angel in a churchtower and a line of six superheroes, the fifth of which has been forgotten.

The story focuses on the sixth superhero, her sidekick being the main male lead from the previous Random story. The mystery is why no-one remembers the fifth superhero or Lucy, the female lead from the previous story, except the devil.

By: Dan O'Shea

Dan O'Shea — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:53:29 +0000

One of the reasons I’m writing a series is that I get to use a lot of the characters over and over. Not only does it save time coming up with new ones, you get to take the ones you have and put them through their changes. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still find places for an old friend or two. Anyone reading along with my online novel, THE GRAVITY OF MAMMON, is familiar with Barham Lafitpour. He made his first appearance in my Hillary Davidson scar flash fiction piece. The guy kind of stuck in my head, and when I needed an ammoral bastard with international ties for the novel, hey, there he was, right there on the shelf.

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In Other Words » Blog Archive » Doing It Again On Purpose — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:50:26 +0000

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By: Filamena

Filamena — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:46:44 +0000

Wait… End up that way?

Are you kidding? That’s where I got my start. It’s where I met David, in fact.

What you have said is a much better version than what I said here. http://www.filamena.com/2009/09/doing-it-again-on-purpose/ Thank you!

I really need to write an ‘Essentials Guide’ to your site.

By: Doyce

Doyce — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:25:25 +0000

Added bonus to recycling characters from previous stuff — you don’t have to spend as much (or any) time getting acquainted with them. You know them, they (arguably) trust you to write them correctly, and you can get on with the actual story slinging. Win-win-win-win? Per-maybe-haps.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:56:27 +0000

After I finish Citizen in the Wilds, or at least bang out the draft and put it up for fine people like yourself to tear to little prose-flavored bits, I just might recycle some of the new ideas I’d had for the paranormal re-imagining of the first novel I wrote, the not-so-original espionage thriller type thing.

It might work better as a series of shorts. That’s what I’m thinking, anyway.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:48:51 +0000

I love nothing more than when you give me this hard a case of the giggles.

WITH good information.

Here’s your tithe. Now leave my family alone. I already TOLD you that you can’t have my daughter.

Sicko.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:45:09 +0000

Oh God.

I’ve been hallucinating again. I thought all that shit in the subway was on Twitter. And this is me typing into a little box, right? I’m not crumpled up next to a flaming bum barrel again, am I?