Recently I decided that as something of a fic writing experiment, I should break out of my habitual mold and try to write a sort of fic I usually do not write: fluffy ship fic. The idea was spurred primarily by running into a couple of pairings that I wanted to read fic about but whose fandoms had a dearth of the sort of thing I wanted to read. If
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Which may not be the kind of fluffy fic you're even talking about, of course. *g*
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But that's not why I'm commenting. I comment just to ask: Could this CSI story be a precursor to Bruce/Amy fic? I have found more former Judging Amy watchers! You might have an audience of three!
*supports fluffy fic-writing*
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I think maybe you have a preconceived, sort of dismissive notion of what shippy fic should be and you're trying to force yourself to write it, even though you don't really even read much of it. So perhaps you don't have the right (write?) tools for this job.
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But for the pairings that do hit my buttons, I have very particular tropes that I like to see in fics: I want to read the same kind of thing over and over again for these pairings. I'm not being dismissive; that's just what I like to read. It doesn't mean I can't appreciate the occasional better-written fic that gives a different spin to the same characters--that's always a great find--but honestly, I'm thrilled with my predictable shippy post-eps where ( ... )
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Unfortunately, I have been told numerous times that fluff is my forte. That sucks for someone who loves the not melodramatic, but heartwrenching angst fics. Anyway, I kind of embrace it now. I still try for other genres -- I can do comedy well when I'm in the mood and my angst is decent). Anyway, characterisation is a MUST for me. The fics I've written that I hate the most are the ones who seem OOC.
Anyway, I think fluff and good characterization can go together. The trick is to find the parts of each character that's softer and more sensitive. Even the badasses (if a series has gone long enough) have shown a softer side at some point. I'm not sure what kind of advice I can give you for characterisation in flully fics. I haven't written a fic in ages.
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I do agree that fluff and good characterization can go together, and there are certainly lots of writers that do it really well. But I think my own realization is that what I'm looking for when I want to read fluff, particularly of a certain kind, is the repetition of familiar tropes rather than some insightful character study. Now, I don't want to read OOC fic, but within certain parameters, it doesn't bother me so much if characters that are canonically pretty similar (as many in the angsty cop partner model are) also have similar fic written about them. In fact, that's sort of what I'm looking for. :)
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