People know their own personal back story usually (barring amnesiacs...all too common in character concepts, but rather unusual in real life 
)...does that make most people you run into outside of the game boring and limited, without room to grow because of their knowledge of their own personal past? Does that make you yourself that type of real-life interaction? Are the interesting people who write autobiographies in real life any less intriguing or desirous to be dialogued with as a result? Well, maybe if it's poorly written, perhaps 
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I think if it helps you cement your story and concept in your head, certainly, write as much as you want! You could write a thousand pages and probably not match the details that you know about you yourself, and I imagine you probably think you are still someone worth knowing and interacting with in real life
You probably expect to have new experiences to build upon your own back story, and will continue to live and grow and learn and meet new people and experience new things just as your characters are at the moment they log in for the first time upon Eorzea 
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Now, putting all that information out there for general consumption is something entirely different. Having made my original comments, I do believe in exposition through role play is a really important thing. I'd sure like to learn about you through through interacting with your character, to be surprised and delighted in discovering new aspects of your personality, feel your pain as you relate a troubling past event. I can get that too from reading about your character, but it's a little bit of a different thing.
If I am to write something about my character (and I have written a bit about my Duskwight, Isobeau), I might tell a little tale that displays an event that shaped her personality, or maybe something that was a pivotal moment in her life. I am concerned that this might let out more than I want before I show my hand in game, so to speak, but at the same time, I like to think that I'm a creative person and I enjoy writing and telling tales, and I have to scratch that itch as well
)...does that make most people you run into outside of the game boring and limited, without room to grow because of their knowledge of their own personal past? Does that make you yourself that type of real-life interaction? Are the interesting people who write autobiographies in real life any less intriguing or desirous to be dialogued with as a result? Well, maybe if it's poorly written, perhaps .I think if it helps you cement your story and concept in your head, certainly, write as much as you want! You could write a thousand pages and probably not match the details that you know about you yourself, and I imagine you probably think you are still someone worth knowing and interacting with in real life
You probably expect to have new experiences to build upon your own back story, and will continue to live and grow and learn and meet new people and experience new things just as your characters are at the moment they log in for the first time upon Eorzea .Now, putting all that information out there for general consumption is something entirely different. Having made my original comments, I do believe in exposition through role play is a really important thing. I'd sure like to learn about you through through interacting with your character, to be surprised and delighted in discovering new aspects of your personality, feel your pain as you relate a troubling past event. I can get that too from reading about your character, but it's a little bit of a different thing.
If I am to write something about my character (and I have written a bit about my Duskwight, Isobeau), I might tell a little tale that displays an event that shaped her personality, or maybe something that was a pivotal moment in her life. I am concerned that this might let out more than I want before I show my hand in game, so to speak, but at the same time, I like to think that I'm a creative person and I enjoy writing and telling tales, and I have to scratch that itch as well
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