30 Days of Fanfiction - Day 10
10. Pairings: Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
I had to read this question a few times before I got it *feel dumb*. I don't think I've ever tried to write a pairing I didn't like - that sorta sounds like a defeatist proposition to me. I have written pairings that I didn't feel confident about. My only completed Hotch/Prentiss fic is a good example. I got an idea for this story by reading something else and then realized I had no idea how to write them together. They just didn't seem possible - I wrote half a story about them and it fell really flat. I put it aside and decided that I would never finish it... aaaannnnnddddd then I went back and rewrote the whole thing about 4 months later. Now, it's one of my favorite stories (and spawned a bunch of others that currently live in my WIP folder). I've also struggled to write just about anything in the Watchmen fandom. I thought I could manage it because I'd already tackled another Moore story (V for Vendetta), but Watchmen is so much more complex and jaded. I felt as if I couldn't make anything I wrote dark enough, and that's sorta saying something ;) Right now, one of the projects I'm working on involves a pairing I'm used to but reinventing one of the pair with a significant cognitive impairment. It means coming up with a different way for him to express things because the way he experiences life is skewed, and of course, I chose to write it from his POV *eyeroll*. I keep thinking about Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and how he reinvented language for it, and I'm nowhere as smart as he was... o_O
I had to read this question a few times before I got it *feel dumb*. I don't think I've ever tried to write a pairing I didn't like - that sorta sounds like a defeatist proposition to me. I have written pairings that I didn't feel confident about. My only completed Hotch/Prentiss fic is a good example. I got an idea for this story by reading something else and then realized I had no idea how to write them together. They just didn't seem possible - I wrote half a story about them and it fell really flat. I put it aside and decided that I would never finish it... aaaannnnnddddd then I went back and rewrote the whole thing about 4 months later. Now, it's one of my favorite stories (and spawned a bunch of others that currently live in my WIP folder). I've also struggled to write just about anything in the Watchmen fandom. I thought I could manage it because I'd already tackled another Moore story (V for Vendetta), but Watchmen is so much more complex and jaded. I felt as if I couldn't make anything I wrote dark enough, and that's sorta saying something ;) Right now, one of the projects I'm working on involves a pairing I'm used to but reinventing one of the pair with a significant cognitive impairment. It means coming up with a different way for him to express things because the way he experiences life is skewed, and of course, I chose to write it from his POV *eyeroll*. I keep thinking about Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and how he reinvented language for it, and I'm nowhere as smart as he was... o_O