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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
May. 20th, 2016 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--How did you decide on the protagonist for your WiPs?
"Protagonist" is easy, since I write shipfic it's usually going to be one of the two of them (not always!) Choosing who the point of view character was was a little harder. Usually I end up going with whichever of the two characters is missing key information, since that makes for a more fun story. Like, in "Heroes of the Squared Circle" the key information was that the guy pretending to be Bruce Wayne was really Bruce Wayne, so it's not as much fun if you're in Bruce's head. In another story I'm writing, A/B are pretending to date to make C & D jealous. Part of the point is that C doesn't know A & B aren't really dating, so it's more fun to watch him seethe with jealousy than to watch A, who knows it's not real. (He's also more fun to write because he's oblivious to how he really feels about A, and protagonists clueless about their own feelings are my Kryptonite).
Some characters are also just easier to write! My third WiP has a pair in which one of them is very young, very trendy, a fast talker, uses tons of slang and has a very quick wit. I can't even imagine how he'd think, so I end up in the PoV of his more introspective, reflective friend instead.
How about you, and how are all those WiPs going? I'm putting aside a few hours to write today and looking forward to it very much.
"Protagonist" is easy, since I write shipfic it's usually going to be one of the two of them (not always!) Choosing who the point of view character was was a little harder. Usually I end up going with whichever of the two characters is missing key information, since that makes for a more fun story. Like, in "Heroes of the Squared Circle" the key information was that the guy pretending to be Bruce Wayne was really Bruce Wayne, so it's not as much fun if you're in Bruce's head. In another story I'm writing, A/B are pretending to date to make C & D jealous. Part of the point is that C doesn't know A & B aren't really dating, so it's more fun to watch him seethe with jealousy than to watch A, who knows it's not real. (He's also more fun to write because he's oblivious to how he really feels about A, and protagonists clueless about their own feelings are my Kryptonite).
Some characters are also just easier to write! My third WiP has a pair in which one of them is very young, very trendy, a fast talker, uses tons of slang and has a very quick wit. I can't even imagine how he'd think, so I end up in the PoV of his more introspective, reflective friend instead.
How about you, and how are all those WiPs going? I'm putting aside a few hours to write today and looking forward to it very much.
