That would indeed be the problem. The Giant WIP has been helpful on that front, because I am ten years older than the main original female character and seem to be managing to believe that people will believe that she is a character, not me. This despite the person who thought that the Hilary/Bunter fic was the most disturbing fic she had ever read and how could anyone find that hot. I resisted the urge to get a tumblr account so I could say “I don’t”, and resolved to remember it in future next time I was making assumptions about an author.
But I digress. I don’t know that I particularly like writing one category of thing above all others. I like writing the thing that goes well, whatever it is: that conversation, that description, that incident, that plot. Anything can be a grind, but anything might flow easily and there are a thousand words before I know it. I had a lot of fun recently writing some description of a landscape that Wimsey was walking in, because I was basing it partly on a place that I’d been and I was trying to convey what it was like. I tend to have a very visual imagination, so description is fun for that reason – looking round and writing down what it looks like. Possibly I should do more of it. I used to find dialogue hard, especially between more than two people, but I worked on that a lot in a very conscious way when I first got into writing Harry Potter fic, and it paid off, because now, though like anything else a particular conversation may be very difficult, as a whole I tend to enjoy it.
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Date: 2014-02-04 04:38 pm (UTC)But I digress. I don’t know that I particularly like writing one category of thing above all others. I like writing the thing that goes well, whatever it is: that conversation, that description, that incident, that plot. Anything can be a grind, but anything might flow easily and there are a thousand words before I know it. I had a lot of fun recently writing some description of a landscape that Wimsey was walking in, because I was basing it partly on a place that I’d been and I was trying to convey what it was like. I tend to have a very visual imagination, so description is fun for that reason – looking round and writing down what it looks like. Possibly I should do more of it. I used to find dialogue hard, especially between more than two people, but I worked on that a lot in a very conscious way when I first got into writing Harry Potter fic, and it paid off, because now, though like anything else a particular conversation may be very difficult, as a whole I tend to enjoy it.