I keep having sexual dreams about my OCs.

Vorpy

This bugs the shit out of me when I found out a lot of other fiction writers and artist tend to have a habit of creating characters that they enjoy on a personal level, and have some level of attraction to.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of a dreamstorm I was having because my fingers were going places they shouldn't or because characters I made for a story keep having sex with me in my dreams.

It's usually the path people take when they make sex OCs or fetish incarnations of themselves, which I do not want since if I get too comfortable with allow the character to have loose sexual morals and fuck it's author then I might as well just start making a sex comic.

MadassAlex

Honestly, I don't know what you're worried about.

It is possible to keep those things separate.

AHR

Plots before and after the story are your friend.

Gelzo

Plot meaning ass?

Ponicalica

I knew who the OP was before I e---it's not Chagen?

More seriously, I don't know the solution to your problem.

Chagen

Poni, I hate and despise fantasizing about myself having sex with anybody.

I would never make this thread.

glennmagusharvey

It's curious that I've created a character who is really adorable and attractive and whose appearance really appeals to my tastes of beauty.  It's been tempting to sexualize her, but the fact that her backstory is based partly on my own personal history makes it more like fantasizing about myself...which makes it really awkward.

There's also the fact that she's supposed to represent the innocence of childhood running head-on into very traumatic and horrible parts of real life that her previously-sheltered existence didn't provide her experience with.

Nyktos

I can't say I've ever fantasized about one of my characters, even the one who is a massive fetish fuel station attendant (which I swear to god wasn't intentional).