my resolve face

[wisdomeagle]

Tonight, I'm going to wok on my theses. I am.

Sooo, to give me good procrastination breaks: ask me a question about my writing. Please. Anything.

I'll also finish up the last two curtain fics. *facepalm*

Ask away?

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Are there characters you find especially hard or easy to write?

[wisdomeagle]

God yes. Especially easy are Tara, Willow, Giles, and Fred (although all of them have specific quirks to their thought that I have to work at -- magic, magic, British, physics.)

Hard are characters who are especially snarky or have odd voices: Spike and Anya are just impossible for me to write well. I have trouble getting into Faith's head, too.

[gvambat.livejournal.com]

What's the most rabid plot bunny at the moment? What's the most rabid plot bunny you refuse to write?

And would you like to use a phone call as positive reinforcement sometime today or tomorrow?

[wisdomeagle]

Most rabid plot bunny: Willow autoerotic self-cannibalism.

That I refuse to write: Michael is Kinsey!

Oh wait. I'm not refusing to write that one. :p

[wisdomeagle]

Oh! And phone call? Uhh... yes? :p

Why don't I see if I can finish up the analysis of this song, then call you and we can talk for an hour, then I'll go back to slaving over thesis?

Love you.

[wisdomeagle]

*poke*

Call me?

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Speaking of procrastination - here I sit, in a coffee shop, out with a friend for the express purpose of writing ... and I'm surfing teh interweb. Wireless cards are a dangerous thing.

Heh. Uh, anyway ... question! When writing fic, is it easy for you to ignore/twist canon to suit the idea, or are you really strict about fitting your story to canon?

[wisdomeagle]

*uses thesis icon as motivation to continue to write*

(By the way, I'm working on Richard Shindell's "Ballad of Mary Magdalene" right now, so I should thank you for sending it to me!)

In the Gateverse, I used to totally ignore the Jack/Sam canon, but lately I've been less eager to do that and working harder on at least to some extent working those feelings into my fic. It's easier for me to ignore Jack's feelings for Sam than Sam's for Jack.

I always try to find an appropriate jumping off point in canon, to start with canon characterization then change one specific thing and work outward from there, sometimes ending up a long way from canon, but always starting there.

I almost always twist canon -- although I suppose I also have a good number of futurefics, backstory fics, and missing scenes -- but rarely ignore it. I think my writing is better when I don't just assume, for instance, an extra-canonical 'ship. I do sometimes (when writing Shep/Weir for mylittleredgirl, I have to just pretend I feel the chemistry; same with writing Spike/Anya/Xander for a recent ficathon. I just *had* to make that leap), but I don't think it generates the most honest writing.

Speaking of honesty... thesis. *grits teeth*