Bobs and bits
Jan. 8th, 2009 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backup1. So I've been working on this Spike-centric S4 AU, and it turns out that I love writing narrative voice for Spike. In my original fic I mostly end up writing in secondary worlds or far futures where I'm a bit restricted in my choice of words - I can't talk about trolleys or flashlights or Shakespeare unless those things actually exist in the world I'm writing in and the character I'm writing is familiar with them.
On the other hand, given the right attitude and a few grammatical oddities, I can have Spike say anything: North London gutter language one minute and a line from Coleridge the next. I can reference pretty much the full range of Western culture from the last hundred and fifty years or so. I can use whatever fancy-shmancy ten-dollar words I want. I can throw in weird archaic phrasing. I can make puns.
Yeah, some of this has to do with writing a present-day character, which I rarely do. But a lot of it is just... Spike. I'm going to have to develop a character for my original work that's as much fun to write as Spike is.
2. Um, I know there was a number 2. I'm sure it was fascinating.
3. I probably won't be participating![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quinara's brainchild ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
plot_wout_porn, but I think it's a fabulous idea. As she says: Not banning sex or shipping, but something where the point is to come up with a fic that doesn't just go through the same motions we've all seen again and again until the characters end up in bed (/shagging-receptacle of your choice). Where there's a MOTW, perhaps, or a mystery.
On the other hand, given the right attitude and a few grammatical oddities, I can have Spike say anything: North London gutter language one minute and a line from Coleridge the next. I can reference pretty much the full range of Western culture from the last hundred and fifty years or so. I can use whatever fancy-shmancy ten-dollar words I want. I can throw in weird archaic phrasing. I can make puns.
Yeah, some of this has to do with writing a present-day character, which I rarely do. But a lot of it is just... Spike. I'm going to have to develop a character for my original work that's as much fun to write as Spike is.
2. Um, I know there was a number 2. I'm sure it was fascinating.
3. I probably won't be participating
quinara's brainchild plot_wout_porn, but I think it's a fabulous idea. As she says: Not banning sex or shipping, but something where the point is to come up with a fic that doesn't just go through the same motions we've all seen again and again until the characters end up in bed (/shagging-receptacle of your choice). Where there's a MOTW, perhaps, or a mystery.
