30 days of fanfiction meme (day 5)
Jul. 5th, 2011 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia5 –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've had instances of realizing in the process of writing that certain characters were easier to get across - stood out more vividly against their backgrounds, for some reason, or had more naturally distinctive voices. It's usually not someone with an entire story of their own I'd like to tell. What do you do about it? There's nothing much to be done about it. It's analogous to being a film director and realizing one of the minor supporting cast is acting the pants off everyone else in the couple of scenes they happen to feature in. You stick to the script and hope the whole day's shoot doesn't end up on the editing room floor.
I've had instances of realizing in the process of writing that certain characters were easier to get across - stood out more vividly against their backgrounds, for some reason, or had more naturally distinctive voices. It's usually not someone with an entire story of their own I'd like to tell. What do you do about it? There's nothing much to be done about it. It's analogous to being a film director and realizing one of the minor supporting cast is acting the pants off everyone else in the couple of scenes they happen to feature in. You stick to the script and hope the whole day's shoot doesn't end up on the editing room floor.
