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[girlofprey]

A poll.

ETA: Okay, the poll refers mostly I suppose to pov-heavy fics, like vignettes. Or...yes. Damn you, jekesta.

[Poll #624322]

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[pussintweed.livejournal.com]

I'm fascinated by how my favourite characters think rather than how others see them.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Hmm, see I'm very often the opposite, which is annoying. I think it's the kinds of characters I tend to love - random, often-angry, slightly crazy types who tend to make a big show of themselves and embarass themselves and me, but whom I love anyway. See: Craig, Barty Crouch Jr, the Hook-handed Man, etc. And mostly I just want to write fic from the pov of other, more normal characters, thinking that 'omg, they're so crazy, and YET SO PRETTY!' - which I recognise is bordering on idolisation and a little bit self-inserty. But apparently quite a few other people do it too (by which I mean most people who answered my poll), though perhaps still not to my extreme, which makes me feel a little better.

I'm trying to break down that way of thinking a little bit, since I've realised it doesn't make for great writing and tends to make my head hurt - fleshing out my favourite characters from just crazy-and-pretty, so they have a bit of depth as well, which really is more interesting than what I have been doing. So...yes. Getting there, but apparently not alone anyway :)

[pussintweed.livejournal.com]

Heh, my enduring favourites are sometimes not the prettiest to look at but have an unusual outlook on life, and I really should vary POV a bit more because sometimes the best way to show the contrast is to view it from outside. Also, I tend to fall in love with a character's particular voice and get obsessed with trying to write in it.

Or maybe I should just stop being lazy and write *something* from any POV. :)

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'm quite lucky, because the 'other halves' of my pairings tend to be, as you say, not necessarily pretty but awfully interesting. So, if it works out well, I get the best of both worlds :)

For example, I've become slightly obsessed with Mad-Eye Moody at the moment - am trying to figure out a way he and Barty Crouch Jr can have crazy adventures that doesn't rape destroy problematize the canon too much. It's not really working...

Or maybe I should just stop being lazy and write *something* from any POV. :)

Shhhh!!!

It's not laziness, it's planning...