On RP
On the spectrum of roleplay (or collaborative writing, if you want to be fancy) versus prose fiction, which do you do more of with your characters? Do you focus more on one rather than the other? If you roleplay, do you feel it's helped you to become a better writer in any technical sense?
It...varies. I roleplay characters from sources that are not my own, so that I get a chance to write them, especially when I don't know the other characters well enough to write fanfic. These days, I'm writing a LOT of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) in conjunction with some other DC comics writers with characters I could NEVER handle, like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, and a lot of Gabriel and Dean from Supernatural with the best damn Castiel and Sam writer outside of the show. Okay, so I'm biased. But she's seriously really really awesome.
When it comes to my original stuff? I really don't trot those guys out for RP so much. I kinda feel like it messes me up to have meta ideas and worlds floating around when it comes to writing. I hate to have the whole stolen ideas dilemma cropping up, especially as I tend to absorb things and find them coming out in my writing later (Just ask me about the amalgamation my Sir Cai is. Or don't. I cringe).
So, it's been a while since I've been here. Mostly cause Wil and Robin...wound up being combined into one character in a third draft of the novel, which focuses a whole lot more on Guy and "Rab"'s relationship. It got rid of a LOT of the cliche teen rebellion stuff, which was useful too. I'm glad to be back though!
It...varies. I roleplay characters from sources that are not my own, so that I get a chance to write them, especially when I don't know the other characters well enough to write fanfic. These days, I'm writing a LOT of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) in conjunction with some other DC comics writers with characters I could NEVER handle, like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, and a lot of Gabriel and Dean from Supernatural with the best damn Castiel and Sam writer outside of the show. Okay, so I'm biased. But she's seriously really really awesome.
When it comes to my original stuff? I really don't trot those guys out for RP so much. I kinda feel like it messes me up to have meta ideas and worlds floating around when it comes to writing. I hate to have the whole stolen ideas dilemma cropping up, especially as I tend to absorb things and find them coming out in my writing later (Just ask me about the amalgamation my Sir Cai is. Or don't. I cringe).
So, it's been a while since I've been here. Mostly cause Wil and Robin...wound up being combined into one character in a third draft of the novel, which focuses a whole lot more on Guy and "Rab"'s relationship. It got rid of a LOT of the cliche teen rebellion stuff, which was useful too. I'm glad to be back though!