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[elliptic_eye]

How much enjoyment I get from a character on the screen or on the page doesn't actually match up that well with how much I want to write fanfic for them, I've noticed. It's not often that I end up wanting to write about character I dislike or am completely "meh" about, though it does happen, but it's really common that some of the characters I

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[nonelvis]

Huh, I hadn't thought about things that way before.

I'm cheap for this show, so I'll write just about any character if I feel I can get a grip on their voice. I do tend to stick with my favorites, but that hasn't stopped me from writing outside that box on occasion.

[elliptic_eye]

I guess I've realized that I have different kinds of favorites: favorite as in enjoy immensely onscreen/on page (Donna, Fitz, Two, Jamie, Romana), and favorite as in particularly enjoy writing/thinking about. Sometimes there's overlap (Martha, Seven, Ace, etc.). It was just sort of weird to sit back and realize, "Huh. Going by my fic output alone, one would think I'm as lukewarm about Romana as I am about Rose, and that I think Peri is more awesome than Leela."

[ladysarahii]

I mostly write for my favorites, although I've written some Rosefic before, as well as others I'm sure I haven't liked as much.

[biichan]

It takes me a while to psych myself up to write about my favorite characters. I'm always afraid I'm going to get them wrong. Sometimes it's easier to write the ones I like, but don't love.

Take Martha. She's the companion I first fell in love with and it took me months to psych myself up to writing about her. She doesn't show up at all in my first three Whofics and even in the fourth she's an offstage presence. And when I finally started writing her, it was in a fic I never finished. (Mostly because my computer died.) In fact, it took me until my ninth finished fic for her to show up in anything.

[elliptic_eye]

Yeah, I sometimes have that, too--had it with Seven'n'Ace, especially. And then there are some I like plenty, but just never find the groove for actually writing them.

[scarfman]

I'll write for something that needs to be said/fixed/left unfixed, or that's a really cool idea, but usually that's about a favorite character because that's who I think about.

[brewsternorth]

Same with me too.

[eponymous_rose]

When there's a character I really glom onto while viewing, I tend to have trouble writing that character, if only because I feel like I'll never get the voice just right. If there's a character I actively disliked/found boring, it's fun to write something that explores why I might've felt that way. ;)

So I write a bit of everyone, but I feel like I'm doing a better job of the characters I'm not as fond of. (And it tends to be what-ifs/ideas/plots more than characters that make me sit up and go "Must fic this posthaste!", anyway.)