Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[jij]

So, what's the word on the street?  What's hip, what's hot, what's happening?  More to the point, how's your writing going?

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[jij]

Batman's really scary to write, I've found. Maybe I should push sasha_anu's essay on writing Bruce up. :)

On the plus side, there are few characters who've been written with such huge variations in canon! Is he a psychopathic man who kidnaps small children and makes them eat rats? Or is he a caring rather who checks up on his foster-kids and supports them? That's ASBAR and Nightwing in current canon, both of them in relation to Dick, no less. I mean, if you're somewhere between those two extremes you match canon.

Now, I'd say writing a Batman that works for fanon is a trickier business, and I do think that no matter how you write Batman you just have to accept that it's going to turn off some number of your readers. Some people like him cuddly and affectionate once he falls in love, some like him pretty sane, some people like him as a completely round-the-bend mind-fucking control freak. I think part of the panic writing Batman is knowing that everyone has a pretty certain image of him and you're just not going to match everyone's

[jij]

I have, however, realised that when I win the lottery and continue making the BoP TV series (which I *so* will do!), I finally know who will be playing Nightwing.

What? You're not going to leave it at that, are you? Who??

*checks your ears for bunnies*

[jij]

*Googles to find pictures of a bare-chested Jared Leto*

He has my thumbs-up!

[wachey]

Same bunnies keep bothering me, and I'd like to finish up some more chapters for my fic, as well as some essays I have due in English, but we got a house guest at my home and she keeps insisting that I go out. So yeah...I want to throttle her, especially since she takes over twenty minutes to explain her point @.@

I finally understand how Flash must feel when he has to listen to a person who talks a lot.

[jij]

we got a house guest at my home and she keeps insisting that I go out. So yeah...I want to throttle her, especially since she takes over twenty minutes to explain her point @.@

Gahhhh, I feel your pain. House guests, they should be banned. :) And I talk with my mother on Skype most nights and she has aa distinct tendency to say the same thing over and over again! I end up not being able to concentrate on her OR on fic, LOL. It's not mindless enough to tune out, but not interesting enough to focus on. *looks guilty* Sorry, Mom!

[wachey]

Oh my dad can be the same way! But sadly it's become a habit of mine kinda. Thankfully I'm able to notice and stop it. Too bad I don't know how to say 'shut up,' nicely.

Anyway, how has your writing been?

[jij]

Not bad, thanks! I'm heading to the States next week so I've been having a hard time starting anything new because I know I won't get much time to write there, but the ideas are still kicking around. *grin* Just no time! At least I have no house guests...

[bradygirl_12]

Hmm, writing Bruce. I try to balance him between that Psycho Bat (or more the controlling Bat) and someone more human. I like him snarky and slipping in romance at the right times. The balance might be best illustrated in "Morning At The Kent Farm" in which he is soaking up the atmosphere of the Kent farm and is mellow while on vacation with Clark and Dick, but he still can laugh at the image of himself *on* a farm, what with his wealthy background and all. He probably sets out to do everything Clark can do on the farm like milking cows with determination

[magnolia_simms]

My writing is just not happening. I've had the creative urge to write... something... but when I open up Word, nothing comes. I opened up one of my many works in progress... nothing.

So I tried the old fashioned route and got out my notebook. Sometimes writing is easier on paper for me.

Still nothing...

It's so frustrating when I want to write but nothing happens!

[bradygirl_12]

*pats Magnolia* I hope the block eases soon, Magnolia! I like your method of trying paper. I still write that way sometimes, too. Maybe it'll work tomorrow.

[magnolia_simms]

Thanks. I hope the block goes away soon because I have ideas that I want to turn into stories, but when I try to write them down, it's like my brain freezes up and the words won't form. I have an idea in my head of what I want to happen... I can even seen scenes I want played out, but when I try to put them into words, it comes out like gibberish, if anything.

But you're right... maybe tomorrow.

[bradygirl_12]

Yes, writer's block is like insomnia: the more you worry about it, the tighter it gets! So even though it's frustrating, try and relax and don't think about it! Think about the stories themselves and let them play out in your head, read fic, or just think about something else entirely! Sometimes it just gets all gummed up but it'll come back. :)