fictional characters as special interest

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How do these work for you? In my last two my minds quickly moved away from the original story to my character becoming a parent. always had a long term special interest in babies and pregnancy but this bugs me know since I cant seem to get back to the original character again once ive done this- and even for me it feels very repetarive, anyone elsa have annoyances like this?

I'm not sure what you mean. I make up characters and then events that happen to them. The first time I know I did that was when I was 12. I know that because I wrote about it in my diary. At the moment I have several groups - three of them are characters that I write stories about. The fourth group is only to think about, and hence those are the ones that feature in my daydreams most often. I guess they don't 'get out' I fantasize the same event happening every time, with small variations.
Now that I write that down it seems really weird....

If you need to go back to your original character minus baby just 'rewind' your story.

That's interesting, because I also have fictional character obsessions and have always imagined my favorite characters being pregnant and thinking about what their children would be like. Though I can very easily, as Cinnamon put it, "rewind" the story to make them not be parents anymore. However, I can sort of understand why it might be hard for you to go back to thinking about how the characters were before they had children - having children is a life (and sometimes personality) altering experience, so once you start picturing a character as a parent it can be hard to shake that image out of your head. My advice would be to pretend that the parenthood storyline that you imagined never happened and try focusing on all the freedoms your characters would have now that they're not parents.

I think the bit that bugs me most is like this example when i first found this character i wrote a story about her returning back to the mythical country they came from and she had a daughter. Then i twisted things, wrote another stofy about main character marrying the guy she kissed at the end of her last film even though in the book the romance never happened and I've created this other world very similar to the last time i did this. I ended up abandoning my first story, which I also did before. I seem to enjoy the new world much better although i do sometimes still enjoy mentall pretending to be her in all her lifestyles. It just bugs mw that i give everything up for that when there is so much more I coukd write about and imagine!

If you write with the intention to publish your stories you should finish them. You should pick one and stick with it. However, when you are not writing you can still imagine the other possibilities. If you are very focused you could even write two versions and then pick the best one for publishing.

If you have no intention to publish you can do whatever you like. If it bothers you that your character's life keeps changing, you can always use parallel universes to explain it. In one universe she has a daughter but not in another. Then you can fantasize about whichever one you feel best about at any moment.