Rant--Writing RPS
One of the newer friends on my flist, the lovely shoshannagold, made me rant yesterday, because she foolishly asked me a question about writing. Specifically about writing RPS. Hence my rantiness, coz as you all know, get me going on that topic, and you can't shut me up
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Then I started reading popslash and then I started writing them. In those, I had a lot more freedom and they were a lot more fanon. For those, I just went with an idea I had and "made them fit" into the character I had come up with, within certain boundaries because people needed to recognize them in the story.
I'm very new to the LOTR fandom and I haven't written much but most of the "methods" I used for popslash, I use here because it's RPS too. With the exception that what I know of the LOTR guys is basically what I've read in stories, aside from the info I got from the LOTR DVD's and bits and pieces I've read here and there. My ideas may come from songs, pics, movies, everyday stuff, other people's stories or the feelings I'm dealing with personally. Then I write the story and make them fit the characters I need for the story to work. Also with those boundaries. Like, I can't write Orlando as a bastard because he's totally the opposite in my head. I tend to write him a little insecure (mainly when the story is taking place during the LOTR filmings) because he's a newbie and he's surrounded by famous and established actors. I can't write Elijah being overly passionate because I see him as a very rational and centered person (though with issues I imagine a child growing in the movie business would have). I like to write him being a little vulnerable when he doesn't have to be "on" because I just like men being vulnerable and sensitive and he's usually my choice hee As those two are usually the ones my stories center around, when I need to use the others, they are absolutely fanon. I don't even know their ages, so I go with the stories I've read so far. Every once in a while I have to look for bits and pieces of information to confirm something but that's about it.
The Harry Potter stuff comes from "holes" I see in the books and I need them fulfilled. Like, the unresolved tension between Draco and Harry. The obvious love between Sirius and Remus. The hatred between Severus and Harry. Stuff that could happen after they all leave Hogwarts. With maybe the exception of this last one, these stories are very limited of course, because the characters are there already, the facts that happened in Hogwarts are there too, they've been written already. This is the one of my fandoms I make an affort to stay very close to canon. I don't know why hee
Well, that's my 2 cents on this. I don't really have a writing process I think too much about. I see it as a hobby and I basically just go with the flow :)
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I think everyone who'd ever written fanfic probably has a Mary Sue moment hidden in their deep, dark past :)
I found your comments comparing FPS with Popslash and Lotrips really interesting--your point about the 'holes' in HP is a perfect articulation of what I meant by FPS being kind of limiting.
I don't really have a writing process I think too much about. I see it as a hobby and I basically just go with the flow
Yeah, that's pretty much my take too :)
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