Which character have you had the most trouble writing?
Without a doubt, Severus Snape. It wasn't just hard to get inside his head -- I felt like he was actively resisting me. I was trying to write a Snape/Lupin story for the Master and the Wolf fest and it was just not working, not at all. I couldn't seem to put down what he was thinking or feeling, in a way that was still him.
Usually, I can get this sort of thing worked out, but in this case I just gave up and wrote the sequel to the story, from Lupin's POV. And I made a Snape icon with "Daddy" on it, to show that he'd won. *g*
After a few months, I did manage to write Snape fairly well. But I remain humiliated by my earlier defeat.
What's something about your own writing you consider a weakness you can't seem to fix?
Well, I don't think there's anything that I haven't been able to improve on when I really worked at it, but I still have a lot of trouble with pacing. I tend to move things along too fast. I'm finally starting to feel like I have a better sense for it.
And there are words I always have to check for when I'm editing, to be sure I don't use them too much. "And" being a big one. Also "feel", as in "he felt like an eel was slithering through his veins". In fact, I just took out two instances of "feel" from a paragraph in this comment.
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Without a doubt, Severus Snape. It wasn't just hard to get inside his head -- I felt like he was actively resisting me. I was trying to write a Snape/Lupin story for the Master and the Wolf fest and it was just not working, not at all. I couldn't seem to put down what he was thinking or feeling, in a way that was still him.
Usually, I can get this sort of thing worked out, but in this case I just gave up and wrote the sequel to the story, from Lupin's POV. And I made a Snape icon with "Daddy" on it, to show that he'd won. *g*
After a few months, I did manage to write Snape fairly well. But I remain humiliated by my earlier defeat.
What's something about your own writing you consider a weakness you can't seem to fix?
Well, I don't think there's anything that I haven't been able to improve on when I really worked at it, but I still have a lot of trouble with pacing. I tend to move things along too fast. I'm finally starting to feel like I have a better sense for it.
And there are words I always have to check for when I'm editing, to be sure I don't use them too much. "And" being a big one. Also "feel", as in "he felt like an eel was slithering through his veins". In fact, I just took out two instances of "feel" from a paragraph in this comment.