Fic Meme Day 1

[zolac_no_miko]

Today I wrote most of a fic! And posted it! On AO3, anyway, I will remember to crosspost it here shortly. Probably. But because I'm feeling ficcish today, I'm going to start this meme, which I stole from hardboiledbaby.

Every day (consecutively or not), post about one of your fanworks

Comments

[hardboiledbaby]

Yay, you're playing! Sounds like you really had a breakthrough in your writing skills with this fic, how great is that? :D

[zolac_no_miko]

I guess maybe I did? I hadn't thought about it overly much until this meme, but it was definitely an interesting challenge to write a fic for a character I didn't know or like well. (It was a prompt from a fic exchange.) It definitely underlined what I'd come to know...challenging myself with new styles and characters is almost always rewarding, and definitely makes me a better writer.

[ava_jamison]

Awesome! That sounds like a great experience, making that story happen . :D :D :D

[zolac_no_miko]

It's one of those things I love about writing...it only partially feels like conscious choices being made by you, at the end of it you can often be surprised by what's just happened!

[mithen]

Ooooh, extrapolating can be fun! :) That's some of the most interesting writing experiments, filling in those gaps...

[zolac_no_miko]

Extrapolation is where you really learn to write characters. Mimicking what has already been presented is a skill, certainly, but taking what you know and expanding outward in a way that feels natural and makes sense...that's real writing.