A fic, from any other POV....
I mentioned yesterday that I was working on two projects at the same time. The first is a TMFU fic about a Napoleon who is studying as an adult to get a high school diploma (aka: Adult High School Napollya) but tonight is for working on my other current fic project, codenamed:Ineffable Mutants
I could try and make the pitch sound fancy but basically it’s Crowley and Aziraphale, but as mutants in the modern world. That’s basically the plot. And my problem with this story isn’t so much finding a plot (thank you, Hard Times and a brilliant fanfic for providing that) but figuring out what POV I want to write this fic from.
Usually, when I write, the POV is easy to find because the things I want to explore call for a specific one. For my Superbat Big Bang, I was exploring what made Superman Superman, for instance, so it was only logical to pick his point of view. My latest longer fics before that, Once more with kissing and With what we have (Digimon Adventure Tri and Voltron: Legendary Defenders, respectively) explored things that either pertained to a specific character’s emotion and evolution (OMWK) or explored themes that would be best served by using one character in particular (W3H) so that made it easy.
In the case of this project, though…they’re both important to the story, and they both have themes I’d be interested in exploring, which means I might have to take a leap of faith and step out of my usual Third Person Limited POVs.
Like, on the one hand, Crowley is at a time of his life where he’s gotten away from his terrible family (Hell) and he’s learning more and more to let go of the posturing he had to engage in in order to survive said family, which would be an interesting thing to look at through this fic-how he once again reinvents himself to settle better into the life he wants to have.
On the other side, you have Aziraphale, who is only just getting to the point where he can’t deny what he is (Gay) anymore, all thanks to falling for Crowley. He’s forced to confront who he is and what his family (Heaven) is, and experience which comes with a whole lot of unpleasant truths to absorb, which is also interesting, and also probably something closer to what I know.
Which actually, as I write this…kind of solves my problem. I mean, it isn’t like I’ve made it a secret that my fics are strongly impacted by my life experience, so what’s one more, right? Though I guess it’s funny, because I was planning on asking you guys for opinions and thoughts, and then I wrote this and the problem solved itself.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the dip in my writing process! I’m trying to get the writing blog active again and I figured, this is as good a way as any :P
What about you? Do you have a favorite/most comfortable POV to write from? If yes, which? And if not, how do you usually pick a particular story’s POV?
Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth
I could try and make the pitch sound fancy but basically it’s Crowley and Aziraphale, but as mutants in the modern world. That’s basically the plot. And my problem with this story isn’t so much finding a plot (thank you, Hard Times and a brilliant fanfic for providing that) but figuring out what POV I want to write this fic from.
Usually, when I write, the POV is easy to find because the things I want to explore call for a specific one. For my Superbat Big Bang, I was exploring what made Superman Superman, for instance, so it was only logical to pick his point of view. My latest longer fics before that, Once more with kissing and With what we have (Digimon Adventure Tri and Voltron: Legendary Defenders, respectively) explored things that either pertained to a specific character’s emotion and evolution (OMWK) or explored themes that would be best served by using one character in particular (W3H) so that made it easy.
In the case of this project, though…they’re both important to the story, and they both have themes I’d be interested in exploring, which means I might have to take a leap of faith and step out of my usual Third Person Limited POVs.
Like, on the one hand, Crowley is at a time of his life where he’s gotten away from his terrible family (Hell) and he’s learning more and more to let go of the posturing he had to engage in in order to survive said family, which would be an interesting thing to look at through this fic-how he once again reinvents himself to settle better into the life he wants to have.
On the other side, you have Aziraphale, who is only just getting to the point where he can’t deny what he is (Gay) anymore, all thanks to falling for Crowley. He’s forced to confront who he is and what his family (Heaven) is, and experience which comes with a whole lot of unpleasant truths to absorb, which is also interesting, and also probably something closer to what I know.
Which actually, as I write this…kind of solves my problem. I mean, it isn’t like I’ve made it a secret that my fics are strongly impacted by my life experience, so what’s one more, right? Though I guess it’s funny, because I was planning on asking you guys for opinions and thoughts, and then I wrote this and the problem solved itself.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the dip in my writing process! I’m trying to get the writing blog active again and I figured, this is as good a way as any :P
What about you? Do you have a favorite/most comfortable POV to write from? If yes, which? And if not, how do you usually pick a particular story’s POV?
Crossposted from terresdebrume@dreamwidth