At the risk of sounding like someone who should spend quality time in a padded room, I tend to start with dialogue when I write. Which means I'm listening to the characters have a conversation and then figuring out what the story is around the conversation.
No, I tend to think that way too. I'll think of part of a scene. Often dialogue snatches or a few action moments or perhaps an "internal dialogue" and that's the build up of my story. That's my hook to writing the fic.
My Teal'c's all right. I'm very weak on Sam and Janet.
If I started doing my secondary characters, I'd be writing this meta into tomorrow. :-) But I think I'm not as strong on Janet as I could be. But the one time I made her central to a story, I was also writing in an odd/restrictive style, so it's hard to gauge. For some reason, as much as I adore her and like having her pop in for fics, my muse shies away from being inspired to write stories focused on her.
(but clearly you need to write more Teal'c. Heh.)
Would it be rude to ask your opinion on whether I do well with Jack? Because I think I use his POV more often than anyone else.
LOL. My view of your Jack to take with grains of salt. I think you focus a lot on Jack as a serious career military man with a rich backstory (usually only hinted at, but still very present in making him a 3D character). The humor is assumed and used at times, but since you give internal thoughts, we as audience get to see your sharper focus on the strong and emotionally bare Jack. That's the part that's closed off in the onscreen expressions familiar to all of us. I think my bias is showing in that I much prefer exploring that oft unseen view than more of the light joking banter we already know. Your writing of Jack has influenced my perspective of him as a character. Well, except for the fact you often write him as romantically involved with Daniel, heh.
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Date: 2009-03-11 10:06 pm (UTC)No, I tend to think that way too. I'll think of part of a scene. Often dialogue snatches or a few action moments or perhaps an "internal dialogue" and that's the build up of my
story. That's my hook to writing the fic.
My Teal'c's all right. I'm very weak on Sam and Janet.
If I started doing my secondary characters, I'd be writing this meta into tomorrow. :-) But I think I'm not as strong on Janet as I could be. But the one time I made her central to a story, I was also writing in an odd/restrictive style, so it's hard to gauge. For some reason, as much as I adore her and like having her pop in for fics, my muse shies away from being inspired to write stories focused on her.
(but clearly you need to write more Teal'c. Heh.)
Would it be rude to ask your opinion on whether I do well with Jack? Because I think I use his POV more often than anyone else.
LOL. My view of your Jack to take with grains of salt. I think you focus a lot on Jack as a serious career military man with a rich backstory (usually only hinted at, but still very present in making him a 3D character). The humor is assumed and used at times, but since you give internal thoughts, we as audience get to see your sharper focus on the strong and emotionally bare Jack. That's the part that's closed off in the onscreen expressions familiar to all of us. I think my bias is showing in that I much prefer exploring that oft unseen view than more of the light joking banter we already know. Your writing of Jack has influenced my perspective of him as a character.
Well, except for the fact you often write him as romantically involved with Daniel, heh.