I'm working on a fanfic to try and knock a few holes in my writer's block, since picking on fictional characters is nicer than picking on real people. Although the frustration is real . . .
It sure is! I'm also working on a fanfic, but I don't want to pick on the characters since they're my favorites. I don't write about characters I don't like; if I did they would surely die. :D
I almost always write about characters I don't care for, otherwise I can't write that anything happens to them. I don't want to see characters I like dealing with losing a loved one, or dying from a disease, or being dumped, but characters I don't like that much, why not? :p
Sure, but you don't need to write about depressing stuff. (Oh, wow, did I just say that?) My fanfic does have some bad moments...But they're bad in an epic way (at least, I tried my best to make it epic), and they always recover. It might change; because I am sick of all these Happy Endings, because life is...not like that at all.
Well, maybe not, but it does add reality to a story that many writers shy away from. I mean, they shy away from reality as much as they do from writing the story properly.
I've read fanfiction that was all dialogue. There were no character thoughts; there were no action scenes (meaning: 'Dad walked into the room', or 'My friends and I ordered a large pizza' and the characters were the same pathetic attempts at creating a real person that you had seen in Chapter 1. They hadn't changed at all, even though a friend died. In one, I read that a girl was raped, and she was just like, "Oh, I should go to the hospital" and her mom was like, "I'm so sorry he did that to you." There was no mention of crying, screaming hysterics, no mention of shock and horror from her family. I hate can't stand stories like that. You just have to wonder why the writer even bothered. Or if they did.
My original story is based on a very depressing topic . . . the first (WIP) chapter is still mostly character thought (aka, introduction) with just a bit of dialogue. I hate writing dialogue, nothing I write ever sounds like something someone might actually say!
My original stories never seem to go anywhere, even if they go everywhere; simply because I could never imagine my characters existing beyond words. I can never make them come to life. They're just names and faces - they all have dreams, but none of them have true depth. But my fanfic...It almost writes itself. I have spent one year and one month writing 339 pages of what I honestly think is my best work ever; and I can totally imagine the characters saying everything I wrote. Maybe it's because I actually only write what I can imagine happening...But whatever, it works! :D I know exactly what you mean. (Mmmm, pizza.) I guess it's different if you're that character from Fearless - Heaven something, I think? - but if I were to be raped I think I would react something like Pamela Collins, and just run home and cry myself dry. People think being emotionless is cool, and if you're Sheldon Cooper it makes me melt inside. But my own characters need depth, and development. I grew - they need too, as well, for me to have even a little pride in my work.
lol, the character from Fearless is Gaia Moore. There was a girl named Heaven in Samurai Girl.
I have the same problem, writing-wise . . . fanfic-writing helps, I think.
Well, Pamela wasn't raped, although she was molested, and that's not comfy either. I find 'emotionless' about equal to 'boring'. I like that Sheldon's version of 'emotional' always comes across as 'logical' but that he does have his freakouts and that his character really develops.
Yeah. He always has that bored look on his face, but I actually find him very interesting. Lorne and I just love how he can insult people without intending to. And when he does try, he fails! :D He is exactly like me in that sense. (Yay!) But I look more like Amy, act more like Penny, and am shorter than Howard...so that bums me out a bit, lol I knew there was a character named Heaven! I also knew a Gaia existed, and I should have caught on last night when I read about Gaia the Earth Goddess. I should have remembered, but I also knew you would correct me. ;) I want my characters to be somewhere between emotionless and dramatic - never on one single extreme. They need to react, sometimes negatively. As I said, I want them to be relateable/relatable. (Why the frig are neither of them words?) I think Pamela, Heaven and Gaia would get along great...
I feel similar to each of the people on that show in some way . . . :)
Writing is hard, isn't it? Don't you miss the days when our "books" were just big, flashy hints about the presents we wanted for our birthday? :p (Mine were, anyway; I always wrote about things I wanted, like dogs and trampolines and lots of marbles . . . I had a fascination with marbles for a while.) :D
I don't know about that . . . Pamela's an uptight little thing, Heaven is as cool as Daphne from What a Girl Wants (very cool), and Gaia is the most blatant Mary Sue in any book I've ever read. I like her, but how often do you get a character outside of fanfiction that can fight very well, speak six languages fluently, and is so beautiful that she catches every boy's eye?
I know it's explained that her parents, especially her dad, taught her to fight and that each day of the week was spent speaking one language and eating the foods the culture of the language enjoys, and while I can see Gaia and Heaven getting along (they both enjoy a fight, if I remember the SG books correctly) but I can't see either of them putting up with Pamela, who half the times strikes me as realistic and the other half as a brat! :p
Maybe so. But I think if I lost my mother and then my sister, I'd skip from brat and go right to b!tch. Actually, I always liked Pam. She's plain, doesn't whore around like most of the existing female populace, and she collects bits and pieces of every place she goes. I wish I had thought of that. We traveled all the time, but all I ever got to do was take crappy photos - and even that was only after December 2004 or whatever. Not much for me to say about Gaia or Heaven, I suppose. I don't really know much about them. I'm pretty sure Heaven had shaggy hair and a sword; and Gaia...well, actually, I don't remember a thing about her! hahaha I remember your marble collection. Hell, I have it on my bookcase. I added to it some. Lorne found two marbles that nobody here has ever seen before. They're clear, but in a pale green kind of way. They're sparkly inside, I think they might be floating in something sticky because they don't move. They're pretty neat. My main character used to be a Mary-Sue. Then I changed her to a pretty face with talons, a thick accent, and OCD. She's much more interesting now that she stands out.
Yay! :D
ReplyDeleteI hope the inspiration keeps flowing . . .
I'm working on a fanfic to try and knock a few holes in my writer's block, since picking on fictional characters is nicer than picking on real people. Although the frustration is real . . .
It sure is! I'm also working on a fanfic, but I don't want to pick on the characters since they're my favorites. I don't write about characters I don't like; if I did they would surely die. :D
DeleteI almost always write about characters I don't care for, otherwise I can't write that anything happens to them. I don't want to see characters I like dealing with losing a loved one, or dying from a disease, or being dumped, but characters I don't like that much, why not? :p
DeleteSure, but you don't need to write about depressing stuff. (Oh, wow, did I just say that?) My fanfic does have some bad moments...But they're bad in an epic way (at least, I tried my best to make it epic), and they always recover. It might change; because I am sick of all these Happy Endings, because life is...not like that at all.
DeleteWell, maybe not, but it does add reality to a story that many writers shy away from. I mean, they shy away from reality as much as they do from writing the story properly.
DeleteI've read fanfiction that was all dialogue. There were no character thoughts; there were no action scenes (meaning: 'Dad walked into the room', or 'My friends and I ordered a large pizza' and the characters were the same pathetic attempts at creating a real person that you had seen in Chapter 1. They hadn't changed at all, even though a friend died. In one, I read that a girl was raped, and she was just like, "Oh, I should go to the hospital" and her mom was like, "I'm so sorry he did that to you." There was no mention of crying, screaming hysterics, no mention of shock and horror from her family. I hate can't stand stories like that. You just have to wonder why the writer even bothered. Or if they did.
My original story is based on a very depressing topic . . . the first (WIP) chapter is still mostly character thought (aka, introduction) with just a bit of dialogue. I hate writing dialogue, nothing I write ever sounds like something someone might actually say!
My original stories never seem to go anywhere, even if they go everywhere; simply because I could never imagine my characters existing beyond words. I can never make them come to life. They're just names and faces - they all have dreams, but none of them have true depth.
DeleteBut my fanfic...It almost writes itself. I have spent one year and one month writing 339 pages of what I honestly think is my best work ever; and I can totally imagine the characters saying everything I wrote. Maybe it's because I actually only write what I can imagine happening...But whatever, it works! :D
I know exactly what you mean. (Mmmm, pizza.) I guess it's different if you're that character from Fearless - Heaven something, I think? - but if I were to be raped I think I would react something like Pamela Collins, and just run home and cry myself dry. People think being emotionless is cool, and if you're Sheldon Cooper it makes me melt inside. But my own characters need depth, and development. I grew - they need too, as well, for me to have even a little pride in my work.
lol, the character from Fearless is Gaia Moore. There was a girl named Heaven in Samurai Girl.
DeleteI have the same problem, writing-wise . . . fanfic-writing helps, I think.
Well, Pamela wasn't raped, although she was molested, and that's not comfy either. I find 'emotionless' about equal to 'boring'. I like that Sheldon's version of 'emotional' always comes across as 'logical' but that he does have his freakouts and that his character really develops.
Yeah. He always has that bored look on his face, but I actually find him very interesting. Lorne and I just love how he can insult people without intending to. And when he does try, he fails! :D He is exactly like me in that sense. (Yay!) But I look more like Amy, act more like Penny, and am shorter than Howard...so that bums me out a bit, lol
DeleteI knew there was a character named Heaven! I also knew a Gaia existed, and I should have caught on last night when I read about Gaia the Earth Goddess. I should have remembered, but I also knew you would correct me. ;) I want my characters to be somewhere between emotionless and dramatic - never on one single extreme. They need to react, sometimes negatively. As I said, I want them to be relateable/relatable. (Why the frig are neither of them words?)
I think Pamela, Heaven and Gaia would get along great...
I feel similar to each of the people on that show in some way . . . :)
DeleteWriting is hard, isn't it? Don't you miss the days when our "books" were just big, flashy hints about the presents we wanted for our birthday? :p (Mine were, anyway; I always wrote about things I wanted, like dogs and trampolines and lots of marbles . . . I had a fascination with marbles for a while.) :D
I don't know about that . . . Pamela's an uptight little thing, Heaven is as cool as Daphne from What a Girl Wants (very cool), and Gaia is the most blatant Mary Sue in any book I've ever read. I like her, but how often do you get a character outside of fanfiction that can fight very well, speak six languages fluently, and is so beautiful that she catches every boy's eye?
I know it's explained that her parents, especially her dad, taught her to fight and that each day of the week was spent speaking one language and eating the foods the culture of the language enjoys, and while I can see Gaia and Heaven getting along (they both enjoy a fight, if I remember the SG books correctly) but I can't see either of them putting up with Pamela, who half the times strikes me as realistic and the other half as a brat! :p
Maybe so. But I think if I lost my mother and then my sister, I'd skip from brat and go right to b!tch. Actually, I always liked Pam. She's plain, doesn't whore around like most of the existing female populace, and she collects bits and pieces of every place she goes. I wish I had thought of that. We traveled all the time, but all I ever got to do was take crappy photos - and even that was only after December 2004 or whatever.
DeleteNot much for me to say about Gaia or Heaven, I suppose. I don't really know much about them. I'm pretty sure Heaven had shaggy hair and a sword; and Gaia...well, actually, I don't remember a thing about her! hahaha
I remember your marble collection. Hell, I have it on my bookcase. I added to it some. Lorne found two marbles that nobody here has ever seen before. They're clear, but in a pale green kind of way. They're sparkly inside, I think they might be floating in something sticky because they don't move. They're pretty neat.
My main character used to be a Mary-Sue. Then I changed her to a pretty face with talons, a thick accent, and OCD. She's much more interesting now that she stands out.
To be fair, we moved too much for collecting jars of dirt and water to be practical . . .
DeleteWay too true. I can't believe I used to like moving...
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