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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Nov. 28th, 2014 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?
So many people here are writing mostly original fic now that the question doesn't make much sense. :P But apply it to fanfiction, I suppose? For me it would be Clark and Bruce, simple choice because they're actually about 12 pairings rolled into one--I can switch from animated series to movies to comics and get a fresh perspective anytime, and there's always more coming out. Plus the double (or even triple) identities give a lot of freedom to write them differently as well.
Writing has been sporadic but not bad. I'm having a lot of great conversations with my beta who's helping me get unstuck at various points in my Yuletide story. I love having a person I can show something to and say "The story went kind of flat and lifeless right around here, where do you think I went wrong?" and he'll think about it for a while and then tell me what seems to be missing or off about it. It's a great cure for writer's block, which usually stems from having taken a wrong turn about 300 words ago for me...
How about you? Are you stuck or moving forward? My sticking-point was having a character acquiesce too quickly and readily to something because I was anxious to get to the aftermath dialogue, but because he gave in too quickly the next conversation lost all of its snap and emotional resonance. Back I go to slow things down a bit... (this story is heading for 12,000 words, nooooo).
So many people here are writing mostly original fic now that the question doesn't make much sense. :P But apply it to fanfiction, I suppose? For me it would be Clark and Bruce, simple choice because they're actually about 12 pairings rolled into one--I can switch from animated series to movies to comics and get a fresh perspective anytime, and there's always more coming out. Plus the double (or even triple) identities give a lot of freedom to write them differently as well.
Writing has been sporadic but not bad. I'm having a lot of great conversations with my beta who's helping me get unstuck at various points in my Yuletide story. I love having a person I can show something to and say "The story went kind of flat and lifeless right around here, where do you think I went wrong?" and he'll think about it for a while and then tell me what seems to be missing or off about it. It's a great cure for writer's block, which usually stems from having taken a wrong turn about 300 words ago for me...
How about you? Are you stuck or moving forward? My sticking-point was having a character acquiesce too quickly and readily to something because I was anxious to get to the aftermath dialogue, but because he gave in too quickly the next conversation lost all of its snap and emotional resonance. Back I go to slow things down a bit... (this story is heading for 12,000 words, nooooo).
