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1_million_words2016-08-29 09:38 pm
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Monthly Madness: Original Fic
Hey there to all our original fic writers! *waves* How are you doing these days? Still working on something that comes under the Original Fic banner?
Maybe it's short stories; maybe it's a full-length novel or novels; or maybe you're just writing a few slices of life for your own characters. Whatever you're doing, share with us something about writing your favourite (or not-so-favourite!) characters.
Here's a few questions you could answer (if you want) about one (or more) of them:
1. Where did the character come from? (Based on someone you know or have read about? Entirely from your own imagination? Somewhere else entirely?)
2. What drives them in your story? (are they looking for something/someone; on a quest; need to prove themselves to someone? Something else?)
3. What makes you like/dislike them?
4. How do you try to make them real?
5. Who do they interact best/worst with in your story/stories?
I must admit, I've been very slack with keeping up on my original fic this year, so I'm going to skip over my characters right now, but I'm all ears about yours! ;-)
Maybe it's short stories; maybe it's a full-length novel or novels; or maybe you're just writing a few slices of life for your own characters. Whatever you're doing, share with us something about writing your favourite (or not-so-favourite!) characters.
Here's a few questions you could answer (if you want) about one (or more) of them:
1. Where did the character come from? (Based on someone you know or have read about? Entirely from your own imagination? Somewhere else entirely?)
2. What drives them in your story? (are they looking for something/someone; on a quest; need to prove themselves to someone? Something else?)
3. What makes you like/dislike them?
4. How do you try to make them real?
5. Who do they interact best/worst with in your story/stories?
I must admit, I've been very slack with keeping up on my original fic this year, so I'm going to skip over my characters right now, but I'm all ears about yours! ;-)
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Zayne and Andy are detectives partnered together and Andy's had a crush on Zayne forever. So, I kind of meant it in both ways, if that isn't confusing enough, right? But once Andy meets James, things get even more complicated between them. I won't say any more for risk of spoiling anything. And yes, they're all posted on my journal here. Walking Disaster (http://asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com/74013.html) was the first multi-chapter fic I wrote with these two, but there are a couple shorts I wrote prior as well. I really need to work on a fic master list. Ugh.
(Here (http://asphaltcowgrrl.livejournal.com/?skip=120&tag=romani%20detective) is the tag for this fandom if you want to start at the beginning.)
I absolutely agree with you on the cowboy thing. And having spent some time living in Texas, what was once a passing fancy soon became an obsession. :D
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Oooo, I love the sound of the perhaps-maybe triangle going on with your boys. I hope you don't mind if I poke through your tags. I'd love to read some of your stories. :D
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Thanks! And feel free - they're there to be read and hopefully loved! I did actually get a master list of all my stories in this *fandom* put up yesterday, so it should be easier to pick through them now!
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Well, now I know what I'll be reading this weekend! :D
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Yay! Just know that Andrej's voice changes a lot in the beginning. At first he was too... Americanized. But he eventually began to sound like the foreigner he is. I need to go back and adjust those early fics so Andy sounds like Andy again. :)
ENJOY! :D