Thinking about fic
Aug. 20th, 2006 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Mostly riffing off what Opera and Twig have said about POV characters and the beloved as an object.
Basically when I write, there's a lead character whose eyes we see things through, and normally they're a reliable narrator. And if I'm writing a fic with a romantic relationship in there's always a character who is doing the loving. The other character might or might not love them back but the lead character is the one doing the 'beautiful emerald orbs that I would willingly get lost in forever' bit.
There are also certain characters that I'm more comfortable writing, because they resemble me, because I can understand them, because they're just easier to get into the character of e.g. I'm far happier writing Kane than RVD, Snape than Lupin, Noble than Nidia in the Factory Town stuff.
So I'm trying to write fic for two different fandoms, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and New Professionals, where I've run into the same problem. I've got ideas I want to run with and a story mostly in places for both and I'm finding great difficulty because my lead character is the one I'm most comfortable writing and, unfortunately and unusually, also the one I find more attractive. Which leads to the problem of my trying to see and explain why character A finds character B attractive when I don't. Any suggestions as to how to get round this?
That's also why the latest 50kinkyways fic is so delayed, I'm writing a fic for a kink that isn't one of mine, where I don't really understand the motivations of one character and where I worry that it's hideously Britglish in parts. Matters are not helped by the fact that one of the props for the scene causes arouses nothing but amusement in me.
Basically when I write, there's a lead character whose eyes we see things through, and normally they're a reliable narrator. And if I'm writing a fic with a romantic relationship in there's always a character who is doing the loving. The other character might or might not love them back but the lead character is the one doing the 'beautiful emerald orbs that I would willingly get lost in forever' bit.
There are also certain characters that I'm more comfortable writing, because they resemble me, because I can understand them, because they're just easier to get into the character of e.g. I'm far happier writing Kane than RVD, Snape than Lupin, Noble than Nidia in the Factory Town stuff.
So I'm trying to write fic for two different fandoms, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and New Professionals, where I've run into the same problem. I've got ideas I want to run with and a story mostly in places for both and I'm finding great difficulty because my lead character is the one I'm most comfortable writing and, unfortunately and unusually, also the one I find more attractive. Which leads to the problem of my trying to see and explain why character A finds character B attractive when I don't. Any suggestions as to how to get round this?
That's also why the latest 50kinkyways fic is so delayed, I'm writing a fic for a kink that isn't one of mine, where I don't really understand the motivations of one character and where I worry that it's hideously Britglish in parts. Matters are not helped by the fact that one of the props for the scene causes arouses nothing but amusement in me.
