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Monday, April 22, 2002Hey again! I hate it when I get all whiney. (re-yesterday's post) Blame it on the toe I stoved. As it heals it's slowly going from pasty white to the black of a hanged man's tounge. Yuck. So glad it's not sandal season. Well, to get back ON topic, I'd like to discuss what I've learned about fan fiction this week. See, I don't write fan fiction as a habit, but once in awhile I will as a present. So, I wrote a due South fan fiction piece, intergrating my friend, for her birthday. To be honest, she's the only one I do fan fiction for, anymore. It's hard to create a friend as a character, because you don't want to do anything to hurt them (hell of a present, that would be, eh? Er...Heck. Sorry.) One of the things I found, if you ever start doing fan ficts, is that you need to have a set of things in mind: A quick reference file with piccys and profiles, preferably chopped from websites. (I had Write open, and just cut and pasted everything I needed, rather than saving the web page), a rough idea of the character's past, and the tells of a character (gestures, voice, things they do every show) - you need to actually watch a few of the shows (I've seen most of them.) to get down the character's voice. In due south, Benton Fraser says, "Actually, Ray" a bit. You also need to know what the characters call each other....my biggest problem, and one I *hope* I finessed..... You can call Benton Fraser many things: Ben, Benny, Frashe, and Frasher. Playing with other people's characters can be a ton of fun - fan fiction is almost it's own mendium. Really. True, it looks like a short sotry, but it really isn't, any more than a proem is. The way you have to fit pre-created items in the story, to give it the right flavor - I relied heavily on throwing in things that are key to someone who's watched the whole series...mentioned rubber duckies, women from both Ray and Ben's past, etc. It really does make your mind work in a different way. But like I said, I don't do it often. Mostly because I am rather mercenary - it takes alot of work to write good fan fiction, and I'd rather put that time into a book, or other marketable project. Still, there's a few Sandman stories that creep around the back of my head, that I *might* put on paper someday, just to free up some mind-drive space. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 4:01 PM 0 comments |