Rise of the Guardians
I have the strongest urge to write Jack/Toothiana fanfiction.
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Don't judge me.
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Don't judge me.
Tag: writing
I Need An Intervention, Like, Nowish
I have written 10,000 more words of SOTM backstory. For serious. I have a problem.
Straight On Till Morning = MONSTER
This story is out of control. That is all.
Dear Muse
Dear Muse,
Thanks for leaving me high and dry as a desert for YEARS and then suddenly BANG! BACK TO LIFE with yesterday's post of Straight On Till Morning. I get nothing for the longest time and then OMG MUST WRITE ALL THE THINGS. Smex and missing scenes and side stories and PREQUELS and bad-ass fight scenes. Just. #@(*$#*@@^*@*@. Why couldn't you have done this YEARS AGO? I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE WOMAN.Even though I obviously am. QUIT JERKING ME AROUND LIKE A YO-YO. I've been writing for pretty much 8 hours straight. Send help.
Sincerely,
GeeBee
Thanks for leaving me high and dry as a desert for YEARS and then suddenly BANG! BACK TO LIFE with yesterday's post of Straight On Till Morning. I get nothing for the longest time and then OMG MUST WRITE ALL THE THINGS. Smex and missing scenes and side stories and PREQUELS and bad-ass fight scenes. Just. #@(*$#*@@^*@*@. Why couldn't you have done this YEARS AGO? I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE WOMAN.
Sincerely,
GeeBee
Naruto 614 Ficcage Blurb
I Should Name My Muse "Dory" And Be Done With It
Is it weird that I suddenly have the desire to write a long and epic fanfiction for The Prince of Persia.
I just...sometimes...I don't even.
WHAT ARE WORDS.
I just...sometimes...I don't even.
WHAT ARE WORDS.
My Muse is Bi-Polar
So, I was wrapping up the second part of Straight On Till Morning today and BAM! I suddenly knew exactly what to do with The Heir and how to write Itachi's story in that fic so that it actually makes sense and I can actually finish the damn thing. I haven't had inspiration to write continuously in like, years, and now all of the sudden my muse is in overdrive.
WTF MUSE.
WTF MUSE.
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optimistic
[Meta] First Person POV
I have this thing. If I open a book or fanfiction or whathaveyou and see the word "I" in the first paragraph, I have a great desire to close the book/webpage/whatever. Most of the time it does close. Only very rarely will I convince myself that reading something written in first person POV will be worth while.
I'm not sure how it started or when, possibly because I just didn't notice, but when I started reading more, I ran across more I's and then, of course, I couldn't help but notice. It's a weird sort of problem. I don't like first person POV's because I feel like the writer thinks that he or she IS the character - and if the character is powerful or magical or brilliant, I feel like the writer is basically writing a Gary/Mary Stu/Sue of his or herself. They're writing what they wish they could be like.
I actually argue with myself over this. After all, writing is about getting into someone else's headspace. I should be celebrating the I's, right? That a writer is putting themselves in their character's shoes, fantastic! Most of the time, though, I'm not convinced. You have to make me believe that you are the character and that there is no shred of you - the author - left. If I feel that you are there, simply playing around in the role wishing you were the character, then you've lost me. Book closed.
I guess it's a fine line and, sadly, in my own opinion, most writers can't do it. I can't. I've never written a story in first person POV unless it was some sort of essay for school, or making use of a narrator in which I can think of only one small instance where I did so. I don't write first person POV recreationally. I just don't think it would be believable. I'm not confident enough in being myself usually, that I can't help but think that becoming someone else would just be a mockery. I'd be writing hey, look, I'm magical and strong and beautiful and awesome and I'm totally the hero! To me, in order to write first person POV, I'd have to disregard myself and my own desires. Separation. If I write myself (the character) being beautiful and strong, I'd have to be able to write myself (the character) as being equally ugly and weak. It takes a strong writer to be able to do that. I think I can count on my hand the number of first person POVs that have actually made me believe, where I actually forgot all the I's and, as a reader, was able to transport myself into the character's world as well.
In a way, first person POV is becoming a character who becomes the reader who becomes the author.
I see a lot of fanfiction these days written in first person POV and I scoff and click away. It seems pretentious. I say to myself you really think you can convince me that you're the character and not yourself? Pfft. Because, from the scope of what I've read, they usually can't. And it's a shame. Because first person POV is difficult and should be so. If you're having an easy time of it, either you're really brilliant, or you're just playing at it. You're saying look, I'm a princess today! or look, I get to be Sherlock Homes!. No. You ARE a princess. You ARE Sherlock Homes. If you can't convince me of that, then you're not doing it right. You're an actor playing a part, but you're not the part itself. The best actors will make you forget that they are an actor and they become the role. For me, first person POV is like that. I have to believe.
A good example of me not believing a first person POV? Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. Bella is a Mary Sue of Stephanie Meyer, or of what she would like to be. I'm convinced of this and, after reading interviews she gave after the books came out, I am even more firmly convinced. A perfect example where the author creates a version of themselves as the hero or heroine and then writes about themselves. Stephanie Meyer wasn't writing about Bella Swan the character, she was writing about herself in Bella Swan's shoes, like an actor that can't leave herself behind so all her roles are just minute variations of herself. The idea of being an actor is that you can become anyone, even someone so totally removed from yourself that you're unrecognizable. Like Mara Rooney in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Holy shit. Stephanie Meyer, write a character like that, so totally the opposite of everything you know, so totally not you, and then I'll believe that you can write first person POV.
The same goes to all those fanfiction writers out there. Convince me. Believe me, I want to be convinced. There's nothing I'd like more than sitting down to read a huge multi-chaptered first person Sherlock fic and totally forgetting there is an actual author. I'd love to do that, but I can't if all there is is your giddiness at writing yourself as Sherlock. If you're writing a first person Sherlock piece, you ARE Sherlock. There's no giddiness. There's no you. There's only the character.
Book closed.
I'm not sure how it started or when, possibly because I just didn't notice, but when I started reading more, I ran across more I's and then, of course, I couldn't help but notice. It's a weird sort of problem. I don't like first person POV's because I feel like the writer thinks that he or she IS the character - and if the character is powerful or magical or brilliant, I feel like the writer is basically writing a Gary/Mary Stu/Sue of his or herself. They're writing what they wish they could be like.
I actually argue with myself over this. After all, writing is about getting into someone else's headspace. I should be celebrating the I's, right? That a writer is putting themselves in their character's shoes, fantastic! Most of the time, though, I'm not convinced. You have to make me believe that you are the character and that there is no shred of you - the author - left. If I feel that you are there, simply playing around in the role wishing you were the character, then you've lost me. Book closed.
I guess it's a fine line and, sadly, in my own opinion, most writers can't do it. I can't. I've never written a story in first person POV unless it was some sort of essay for school, or making use of a narrator in which I can think of only one small instance where I did so. I don't write first person POV recreationally. I just don't think it would be believable. I'm not confident enough in being myself usually, that I can't help but think that becoming someone else would just be a mockery. I'd be writing hey, look, I'm magical and strong and beautiful and awesome and I'm totally the hero! To me, in order to write first person POV, I'd have to disregard myself and my own desires. Separation. If I write myself (the character) being beautiful and strong, I'd have to be able to write myself (the character) as being equally ugly and weak. It takes a strong writer to be able to do that. I think I can count on my hand the number of first person POVs that have actually made me believe, where I actually forgot all the I's and, as a reader, was able to transport myself into the character's world as well.
In a way, first person POV is becoming a character who becomes the reader who becomes the author.
I see a lot of fanfiction these days written in first person POV and I scoff and click away. It seems pretentious. I say to myself you really think you can convince me that you're the character and not yourself? Pfft. Because, from the scope of what I've read, they usually can't. And it's a shame. Because first person POV is difficult and should be so. If you're having an easy time of it, either you're really brilliant, or you're just playing at it. You're saying look, I'm a princess today! or look, I get to be Sherlock Homes!. No. You ARE a princess. You ARE Sherlock Homes. If you can't convince me of that, then you're not doing it right. You're an actor playing a part, but you're not the part itself. The best actors will make you forget that they are an actor and they become the role. For me, first person POV is like that. I have to believe.
A good example of me not believing a first person POV? Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series. Bella is a Mary Sue of Stephanie Meyer, or of what she would like to be. I'm convinced of this and, after reading interviews she gave after the books came out, I am even more firmly convinced. A perfect example where the author creates a version of themselves as the hero or heroine and then writes about themselves. Stephanie Meyer wasn't writing about Bella Swan the character, she was writing about herself in Bella Swan's shoes, like an actor that can't leave herself behind so all her roles are just minute variations of herself. The idea of being an actor is that you can become anyone, even someone so totally removed from yourself that you're unrecognizable. Like Mara Rooney in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Holy shit. Stephanie Meyer, write a character like that, so totally the opposite of everything you know, so totally not you, and then I'll believe that you can write first person POV.
The same goes to all those fanfiction writers out there. Convince me. Believe me, I want to be convinced. There's nothing I'd like more than sitting down to read a huge multi-chaptered first person Sherlock fic and totally forgetting there is an actual author. I'd love to do that, but I can't if all there is is your giddiness at writing yourself as Sherlock. If you're writing a first person Sherlock piece, you ARE Sherlock. There's no giddiness. There's no you. There's only the character.
Book closed.
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determined
Just wondering...
Does anyone have Archive of Our Own invites?
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contemplative
THE CRACK, IT HURTS ME
I have this burning desire to write a Naruto/Princess Tutu crossover.
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YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT.
y/n?
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YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT.
y/n?
