Meme(s)!
I've completed two of the prompts for that drabble meme so far, with more to come shortly! For now, though:
I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me, Albus/June, Harry Potter/Dreamwalk Blue for anonymous
Bridesmaids, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter for
catewigs
Plus, 8 - Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
I heart my OCs, but I only write them if they're necessary to the story I want to tell. The types of stories I like more often than not benefit from them, but not always. The truth is the very act of writing (particularly fanfiction) inserts you into a fictional world, allows you to be participatory in a story/life/world not your own. Given that, I often wonder about all the angst about original characters or the assumption that they always equal self-insertion in a distracting or amateurish way.
That said, I do tend to write certain of my own experiences into my OCs (and canon characters, for that matter). Most of my fics feature at least one cool, ambiguous blonde or a sassy, wise-beyond-her-years teenager, if not both (sometimes both contained in a single character). (I also have a tendency to write petite, self-contained brunettes and bad/absent/otherwise problematic dads, though, so who knows...)
Previous days are here.
This entry was originally posted at http://viola-dreamwalk.dreamwidth.org/9773.html
I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me, Albus/June, Harry Potter/Dreamwalk Blue for anonymous
Bridesmaids, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter for
catewigs
Plus, 8 - Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
I heart my OCs, but I only write them if they're necessary to the story I want to tell. The types of stories I like more often than not benefit from them, but not always. The truth is the very act of writing (particularly fanfiction) inserts you into a fictional world, allows you to be participatory in a story/life/world not your own. Given that, I often wonder about all the angst about original characters or the assumption that they always equal self-insertion in a distracting or amateurish way.
That said, I do tend to write certain of my own experiences into my OCs (and canon characters, for that matter). Most of my fics feature at least one cool, ambiguous blonde or a sassy, wise-beyond-her-years teenager, if not both (sometimes both contained in a single character). (I also have a tendency to write petite, self-contained brunettes and bad/absent/otherwise problematic dads, though, so who knows...)
Previous days are here.
This entry was originally posted at http://viola-dreamwalk.dreamwidth.org/9773.html