700 to 7k: Day 5

[xfirefly9x]

Day 5. Here are today's questions/prompts. :)

♦ What are you working on today?

♦ What process do you have for creating characters? Or do you prefer to make it up as you go along?

♦ Share something unique about one of your characters that makes them stand out from the rest

Comments

[vriddy]

Took a day's break to edit some of the stuff I've been writing, and back to another one-shot this morning! :)

I'm writing fanfic at the moment, but when writing original works I usually start with the snowflake method, and the questions around character arcs and character goals are always good to get the rough initial outline of what will make a character -- to fill in more as I write and get to know them better!

[xfirefly9x]

That's great, how'd the editing go?

Do you find you can just wing it with fanfic, because of what you already know of the character from the fandom?

[vriddy]

Editing wasn't as productive as I hoped haha, but I got a few paragraphs done so that's something!

Fanfic with characters I haven't written before can still be touch and go until I find a voice and internalised system that seems to fit how I perceive the character. Right now it's easy because I'm writing characters I've written for years (actually the piece I had trouble editing does use a PoV from a character I'm not as comfortable with, so that might be part of the reason for the slower pace!)

[xfirefly9x]

Hey, even just a few paragraphs of editing is awesome! It's all progress.

It always takes me some time to feel into the characters and get comfortable with writing for them early on too. The more familiar, the easier it is to get into flow, etc.