Monthly Madness: Original Fic

[haldoor.livejournal.com]

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! ;-)

Comments

[morethanmending.livejournal.com]

Your character sounds amazing! Very complex, very complicated, very tangled (to pull in another Disney reference) in her emotions and her family and her life. But also very interesting. It sounds like you've crafted quite a world for her too. I'm terrible at world building. I tend to stick characters in a small box with a few items and then sit back and watch what all they get up to. :D

[erinm-4600.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that -- we (as mod-gods) have a tendency to tease her with comparisons to Rapunzel. :D

The worold has sort of created itself. A lot of it is actually via bizarra's brain, because she ~saw~ it all and we just write to fill it in. Or something like that. LOL