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Jun. 14th, 2007 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opera142Well, I'm writing again. Yayz. Barely a thousand words so far, and probably 50% will never see subsequent drafts, but I've got a POW! opener (which usually drives me to finish a story because man, I want to STRUT around, showing off that sentence), I've got the premise and story points figured out, and the ending "written" (we know that's gonna change).
Ah. Just ah. Of course, there are issues too. The dialogue is pretty bland at this point. Place holder stuff to remind me what I want my characters to say. I just need to figure out how they would say it, *if* they would say it, and all that other jazz that goes with getting a character's words on a page properly and in a compelling manner.
Also, I'm writing one character fairly 180 from fanon, and I dread the tin-hattery. I worry this fic will be perceived as character bashing or Opera casting judgment of what's good and bad in wrestling (since when have I needed to hide my opinions in fic, huh). I'm proud of my refusal to show characters through a soft-focus, vaseline-coated lens. I'm proud I write the ugly side of human nature without taking easy outs and making the "bad" behavior sole property of villains. Lamely, whenever I write a story about a fandom darling behaving less than angelically, I worry that people think I write nasty for the sake of nasty.
I like thinking there's art to the stories I tell. That I'm more Seven than Friday the 13th, part 9. That there seems to be a story reason for the characters acting the way they do instead of Opera Likes Snarky Jerks So There They Be.
Now, before any "write what you want" posts are readied, I'm going to say that dreading the tin-hattery and fleeing from it are two different things. I'm going ahead with the fic. It's just I think a little self-examination of motive is healthy for a writer. It's all too easy to put on tin-coated blinders and writewritewrite and somewhere down the line end up with stories that scream THIS READS NONSENSICAL TO ANYONE BUT ME.
That's what I dread more than anything. Having my characters appear to be doing all sorts of bizarre and random and stupid and OC and Opera-centric activities just because my writing wasn't strong enough to make those activities seem logical, in-character and believable.
Ah. Just ah. Of course, there are issues too. The dialogue is pretty bland at this point. Place holder stuff to remind me what I want my characters to say. I just need to figure out how they would say it, *if* they would say it, and all that other jazz that goes with getting a character's words on a page properly and in a compelling manner.
Also, I'm writing one character fairly 180 from fanon, and I dread the tin-hattery. I worry this fic will be perceived as character bashing or Opera casting judgment of what's good and bad in wrestling (since when have I needed to hide my opinions in fic, huh). I'm proud of my refusal to show characters through a soft-focus, vaseline-coated lens. I'm proud I write the ugly side of human nature without taking easy outs and making the "bad" behavior sole property of villains. Lamely, whenever I write a story about a fandom darling behaving less than angelically, I worry that people think I write nasty for the sake of nasty.
I like thinking there's art to the stories I tell. That I'm more Seven than Friday the 13th, part 9. That there seems to be a story reason for the characters acting the way they do instead of Opera Likes Snarky Jerks So There They Be.
Now, before any "write what you want" posts are readied, I'm going to say that dreading the tin-hattery and fleeing from it are two different things. I'm going ahead with the fic. It's just I think a little self-examination of motive is healthy for a writer. It's all too easy to put on tin-coated blinders and writewritewrite and somewhere down the line end up with stories that scream THIS READS NONSENSICAL TO ANYONE BUT ME.
That's what I dread more than anything. Having my characters appear to be doing all sorts of bizarre and random and stupid and OC and Opera-centric activities just because my writing wasn't strong enough to make those activities seem logical, in-character and believable.
