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NaBloPoMo Day 18: Writing Meme
Nov. 18th, 2011 11:00 pmAlmost forgot to post the last few days! :o
In the 'tentative plans' department I may be in the Boston area Monday-Tuesday to wallow in some schaudenfreude, get acquainted with the arcade versions of Beatmania IIDX: Lincle and Pop'n Music: Tone Street, and hopefully meet up with some old friends. Even more tentatively: I might be in Philadelphia in the first week of December for some extreme nerding out. Still unlikely as only a few of the details have been worked out.
Anyway, now it's MEME TIME.
5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
...I don't think I've ever had something like this happen to me. There have been times when I try to reduce or ignore a character that logically should be in a fic because of their relationship to the character I'm writing about - but that is always because doing so makes writing the fic easier, not because it's a good narrative choice. When that happens and I find myself admitting that I need to add in the ignored character, that's just me being a lazy writer, not the character trying to force their way into a story.
Though I should admit that I dislike thinking of writing in terms of uh...how to put it...sentient and separate entities, like muses. It has always struck me as a bit pretentious and uh...flighty? I know it's pretty mean to see it that way because it's a very common way for people to frame their writing process and there's nothing wrong with it but I can't help but get annoyed when I hear writers talk in terms of muses, characters/plots 'demanding' things of their authors, etc.
( the rest of the meme )
In the 'tentative plans' department I may be in the Boston area Monday-Tuesday to wallow in some schaudenfreude, get acquainted with the arcade versions of Beatmania IIDX: Lincle and Pop'n Music: Tone Street, and hopefully meet up with some old friends. Even more tentatively: I might be in Philadelphia in the first week of December for some extreme nerding out. Still unlikely as only a few of the details have been worked out.
Anyway, now it's MEME TIME.
5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
...I don't think I've ever had something like this happen to me. There have been times when I try to reduce or ignore a character that logically should be in a fic because of their relationship to the character I'm writing about - but that is always because doing so makes writing the fic easier, not because it's a good narrative choice. When that happens and I find myself admitting that I need to add in the ignored character, that's just me being a lazy writer, not the character trying to force their way into a story.
Though I should admit that I dislike thinking of writing in terms of uh...how to put it...sentient and separate entities, like muses. It has always struck me as a bit pretentious and uh...flighty? I know it's pretty mean to see it that way because it's a very common way for people to frame their writing process and there's nothing wrong with it but I can't help but get annoyed when I hear writers talk in terms of muses, characters/plots 'demanding' things of their authors, etc.
( the rest of the meme )
