something to help getting jumpstarted again.

[spikesgirl58]

The mission for those of us who answer the questions, should we accept it, is to stay positive about our writing and ourselves, but to also be fair about our shortcomings.1. Of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud

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[lanalucy]

What terrifies me about writing....that this new thing I've discovered and fallen in love with will go away as fast as it showed up. That the characters in my head (both fic and original) will stop talking to me.

[lanalucy]

I'm okay with some things never getting finished. I've got ideas that seemed fantastic at the time that once I wrote down that initial idea, nothing else has ever come to me. I am okay with that.

I'm not okay with the writing going away. I need it now. Nothing else in my life has ever been like writing is for me.

BSG is different - I don't feel like I have the same connection to any other characters I've watched or loved, ever. I'm so glad that connection is real and not just in my head. :D

[lanalucy]

Those two characters are mighty interesting, Bert possibly the more interesting. Why do I get the feeling he's about to not wake up tomorrow?

I admire that determination. I'm still learning that. I start many, many things, and then they sit for a a while, and though I eventually come back to nearly everything, it's sometimes months before I do. I've only abandoned one thing, and that's one that I just can't make what's in my head come out into words. It all comes out sounding too much like something else. :( I've put it into my "on the back burner" folder, so it's not officially, totally abandoned, but I haven't looked at it in nearly a year.

[kdbleu]

My least favourite characters are those I genuinely dislike but need to include.

I kind of love those characters. hee.

[spikesgirl58]

This is brilliant. I love that determination is your greatest strength and that you are inspired by everything. That's how it should be.

[spikesgirl58]

And right back at you, my friend.

[ninety6tears]

There are so many things that terrify me about writing, but one of the things I've stressed out about lately is how blind you can become to the ethical implications of what you're writing. When you're so far in a character's head, it's not that you start excusing everything that they do, but when you're trying to at least make their actions understandable it's kind of scary not being sure whether that subjectivity comes across in the right way. And I find that fandom in particular can get exceptionally heated about these things and you're less likely to get the benefit of the doubt because there are so many authors out there who aren't just writing about difficult subjects but are indelicate and insensitive about them.

[ninety6tears]

I guess a couple fics that I'm still working on have given me the most issues about this, so I haven't yet gotten to the point of having to worry about it that much? Even with the smaller issues I always over-think it a little when I have characters in fanfic doing almost anything wrong, even when they're going to feel remorse about it later, because it's frustrating how many people will assume the author is being an apologist/doesn't want to see their favorite character have any faults, but knowing that, I can be very nervous when I'm sending it off to the beta reader because a small part of me is worried she'll be like "WHY DID YOU MAKE THAT CHARACTER SAY/DO THAT, IT MAKES NO SENSE