Recently my name was mentioned on national TV(for a silly reason that I won't go into.).
Friends, family, and neighbors called up to congratulate me. The attention was enormous. Much like when I was a highschool basketball player and would win or lose crowds with my performance and high-flying dunks.
I figure that you can react two ways to this sort of attention, one it can exhilarate you(as it did me recently) or make you very self-concsious and uncomfortable(as it did when I was a young man who did not want any attention at all.).
An interesting character occured to me (interesting to me anyway.). A person who is famous yet wants no part of it, in fact he is deathly afraid of notoriety--like a phobia. I wonder if any of you have ever heard of a character like this?
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Well, I'm of two minds about celebrity...say I start selling my stuff and am suddenly a successful writer. (Stranger things have happened.) I kinda like the writing end (when it goes well)...but I'm not so sure I'd care for some of the other activities a successful writer goes through, like TV interviews or autograph sessions. So success would be a mixed bag for me...
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Any character with something to hide is not going to like any kind of attention. Lots of characters like that out there.
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
Wasn't Ender kind of that way, to a degree? At least at the end of the book.
Posted by satate (Member # 8082) on :
That reminds me of the character in the movie Ghost Town. I loved the movie, though not very many went to see it. It was hilarious. He doesn't like people and is very reclusive when all the people who have died with unfinished business have only him to go to solve their problems.