Sudden memetic jolt

[yakalskovich]

teriel is utterly, utterly brillliant:
http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle3610.html

This is exactly how I work with characters, be they original or RPage. In fact, invocation (which is what teriel is talking about in that article) is another way of describing what anyone has to do when working with a pre-existing character. In a fannish context, you invoke the character(s) defined by the source into yourself, and you invoke yourself, your own creative energy, into the powerful thought-form that any fandom-fed character becomes.

As for me invoking historical persons in order to write fiction about them, the technique is most obvious as well.  Now I come to think of it. It's one of those great mind-blowing eye-openers Teriel sometimes provides: I know I have been doing it as long as I can think, but he finally presents an actual system that lets me have a conscious look at what I am actually doing...

Thank you!!