Writing Your Dolls story.

For me, the stories come before the dolls and not all my stories require shells for the characters (thank god!). Some of the stories are free reads and are posted to my author LJ. Others are posted to a paid subscription website (yaoifix.com) and still others are published through Torquere Press and available for purchase in a variety of places. I'd like to do more photostories but doing the written stories ends up taking up quite a bit of time and is where the bulk of my story telling energies go.

 

I haven't seen written backstories or stories in general about dolls gatheres in one place. It would be nice to know, if there was such place.

 

some of my stories where already in process when i started on the hobby. in fact it was because i wanted to shell some of my characters that i decided to get into it in the first place. some others i fell in love with and as i looked at them their story unfolded on it's own. but all my dolls are characters of some sort of story, none of them come home without a name or a part to play, for me that's what makes them special...otherwise they would just be a simple doll...and that tome would be very boring indeed.

 

Half of the stories for my dolls actually come after they arrive. I have an unmeasureable amount of characters to choose from but I like to make new ones as I get dolls. My Kid Delf I just put into one of the role plays I'd been doing with my girlfriend for years.

I think that everyone will have different methods but as for stories and writing them, it's up to the owner. c :
I like to write with two people because it's more fun to me that way. c :

 

I do have fairly detailed backstories for at least most of my dolls at this point (eventually the remaining ones will likely fill themselves in a bit more). For the answer of whether I have them written anywhere, however, I have to answer in two parts...

For the first part, my original doll family, all the members are shells of my original characters. I've written bits and pieces of their stories over the years, and a few people know at least some amount of it, but there's nowhere the whole thing is written out online (or even offline). I hope to someday craft the full story, but it's still something on my "to be done" list. Since I've been working on it for years, however, the backstories have become quite detailed for each of the characters.

With the new family (or families, but they're the same characters in each), on the other hand, the dolls are shells of characters from an online RP I played in a couple of years ago. All the characters in that game started out as characters from existing properties, where they had to have sufficient backstory existing already to be played, so each of those characters does have a written (or animated) backstory available. The characters that weren't in the game likewise have a good amount of backstory, being from the same story as the one I played. And on top of that, the interactions of the three characters who were in the game still exist in the logs of that game. (Not to mention I wrote a bit of what came after the game for last year's NaNoWriMo, but that's not available to read anywhere.) All that came before I started buying the dolls, however; they stepped into existing roles, much like the originals, with the difference being that their stories can actually be found.

There's a couple of extras tossed in amongst my dolls, too, but for the most part they're fae who are sort of timeless and not overly forthcoming with their backstories, but they seem to have fit in well enough anyway.

 

I wouldn't even know where to start with back stories. I'm not the greatest rp'er and if someone walked up to me and said "what's the story behind your doll" I'll probably have a panic attack.

 

I came up with a story, created characters and am currently working on fleshing them out as dolls, just one more character to go before the cast is complete and I can start the photo story shoot.

I love to do creative writing, and maybe I can give you a starting point or a few options for one.

1oll's name - If it comes from a specific language such as Irish or Italian, they could have a history in such regions with cultural ties. Perhaps they are an exchange student or traveling abroad.

2: Doll's clothing or props - Perhaps they have an item from their childhood that they do not know where it came from, and are searching for answers about a past they don't remember. Perhaps it is the only thing they have left, or maybe it is what they have always dreamed of having. They could loose the item and be on a quest to find it and have adventures along the way.

3: Doll's Eye/hair color or scars - An old scar can indicate a troubled past or an interesting history. Eye color can indicate linage, one off color eye might indicate a mixed heritage, angle/ demon/ human ect... on this note an actual crack in the doll can be incorporated into the story, say your pet knocked him or her off the table. Well, that just turned into a visit to the park gone wrong, when they where suddenly come upon by a wild beast and were injured trying to escape. There is a recovery process, maybe that isnt going well for them, or they found out how lucky they are to have friends (other dolls or you) who care for them.


Think of your doll as a person, figure out where he orshe came from and it usually falls into place. Just like growing up for people, as they age their story grows.

 

I have a lot of story notes about my characters and the unifying plot that ties them all together, but I'm keeping them largely private until I've finished the entire novel. I mostly post snippets about my characters here on DoA (especially when I'm waiting for a new doll and solidifying its character). All my other writing I keep privately on my laptop, since I don't feel it's ready to be published yet (even just on a blog or anything like that).

 

I already have some story parts in my mind and I started a few days ago to write things down because somehow it is actually too much to keep everything in my head till the Doll arrives. I even have some Story Parts in my mind of the Doll I still didn't ordered XD my head actually sometimes explore of all the ideas that suddenly comes up to my mind but I'm glad I think about it, so I actually can imagine how well my dolls will fits together. I don't know where to post the story I think I decided this when I start to make the pictures for the Story and I finally know, I can make my thoughts into pictures.

 

I love to write story for my dolls because my another hobby is writing novel. So...I will make a short background and profile for my future dolls first. After they arrived or are sent back from doing face up by an artist, I will begin to observe my dolls, give them a style, a permanent name and correcting the background story which I wrote it before, just to suit them. After they got their profile and background, I'll create a connection to other dolls (put in the same story). Just like my now story is about a cursed family which my first doll, Ren acts as a main character who is the clan head and tries to break the curse. Other dolls act as relative or retainer or friends or friends of friends. Now, I have their basic background, just correcting and write the story up together left...Ohhh...But to write in different languages is somehow...difficult! Hahaha!

 

If someone came up to me and asked that, I'd probably say, "Oh, I saw this doll on such-a-such-a site, her wig is from xyz company--I really love the color, don't you?--etc." or "I like dolls. I saw this one on [website] back in 20-- and knew that one day she would be mine, and here she is." Backstories wouldn't be the first things to come to mind.

 

Yup I write story for two of my girls. I didn't post them because the story has not finished, and the image/style of my girls have somehow change with time.:P

 

The story for my first dolls was written long before I knew they even existed! As a less than artistic person, I (eventually) found that they were a great way to create the characters I love, as I see them...then it just kind of carried on. Quite a bit.

I think some dolls can just really inspire a person, but the story is always growing and changing when they're with you, so its best just to be patient.

Also, I think you'll find a lot of backstories in the databases and what-not, as well as the owner's blogs, of course!

 

Even though I don't have a doll yet, I already have her story. I write mine on my Ipod. Her name is Charlie (Charlotte) and she builds things in glass bottles as a hobby and for her job.

 

Similarly to AlaskanPhoenix I don't have my dolls yet, but I bought them both with a backstory in mind. I'm a fiction writer first and a doll collector second so I suppose in my case it's hardly surprising that I'm writing the story for my dolls.

 

I've always had some sort of back-story for my dolls when I was a little girl. I have an army guy I bought as an adult, just because I was inspired by a film. When I decided to indulge my long interest in bjds, I had only a vague idea of who my doll is. Until I started talking with doll owners, I had no idea it was a thing for the dolls to have their own back-stories! My doll isn't here yet, but I decided he should have a roommate/friend. The roommate is just a head for now, but his story is much easier to imagine. He's a dollshe saint, and I suppose since I have seen soooo many photos of that doll, it's easier to imagine his character. He's a young guy from Appalachia (eastern Kentucky) and now lives in my city working at a Wal Mart changing oil. My popo doll isn't here yet, but he's a smart and thoughtful guy so he will write his own journal entries on my deviant art page so I can get to know him.

I suppose that counts as writing the story some place, right? I'm not sure they will be interesting stories or not. Fantasy universes are something I appreciate, but they say write about what you know. That's what I plan on doing with my dolls.

 

I didn't have a story when I first got my doll. I have been a story writer and a table-top role-player for years before I even encountered the dolls. I decide to get a doll because I love how they looked and I was completely fascinated by the possibility of customizing them over and over again. It wasn't until the doll had arrived that I realised I needed a name for him. It was through the process of looking for a name (and the nickname that came soon after) that I decided there must be something more to just a figure with a name. And that's where the story ideas are starting to build up.

At the present moment I still don't have a full story fleshed out, but I have some ideas. (Un-)fortunately, it also means I am starting to plan to fill out the story with the inclusion of another doll in the future. At the present moment if people ask me, I call my doll "my child" and leave it at that. There's no specific back story (or story in general) yet.

But I do echo she_flame's point: Is there a place -anywhere- that we can read through people's back story on their dolls that's gathered in one place?

 

I only thought of a story after my second doll arrived. Then, slowly, I would slightly change it when new dolls, aka new characters arrived. New relationships would form, sometimes changing a bit of story in the past and also changing the characters themselves a little bit every time.
It's good, that I don't have a set story, it's more like a background story only and stops in the 'now'.
That way I can fit in all my dolls as characters and don't accidentally think up new characters.

 

I love writing and as a long time table top RPG gamer, too, I have plenty of characters and character's stories, but my first BJD didn't have one. I got him just because he was so darn cute. Then, I find a doll that looked so much as a RP character of mine that I had to get her. She inherited the character and her (fairly detailed) backstory, and I decided to shell other character of the story or at least try including in her story all the dolls that I will get in the future.
For now I have only some pieces of backgrounds written down, but I plan to write the entire story... maybe also in English. I think there isn't a place on DoA to post our written stories, A lot of people posts their dolls stories in a blog or a website made by themselves and link it in their signatures.