My first thought is while I know who I fine the easiest to write, that has little to do with who I might write most sucessfully. ;) Only the reader can tell me that, and it's pretty subjective as characterization takes a lot of twists and turns out there.
I identify most with Daniel, and I find him the easiest to write. I usually have a pretty clear idea of what I think Daniel would think in a given situation. Whether I'm correct about that is something entirely different.
I'm fine with Jack when it's adventure or comedy, but I have a lot more trouble when it's serious. I make him talk to much, or at least I did in a story I'm working on currently. I had to cut out a big chunk of his dialogue and give most of the rest of it to Sam.
Sam. I have a lot of trouble with her. Part of it's the science. Part of it is a serious affinity for sarcasm. Part of it's that I just seem to have trouble writing female characters--beyond weird, I know, what with me being female and all. I have even more trouble writing Janet.
Teal'c is tough, but the rules are pretty clear. My big trouble with him is keeping him involved, especially when there's nothing Goa'uldy going on.
I usually know what to have Cam say, that part's easy, but it can take weeks to get the accent right, especially if the story is from his point of view, like the last one. There just aren't many southerners to observe up here in Canada.
(Note: does anyone know what the cat just walked on that made me not be able to insert text in previously written text without overwriting it? This is a problem!)
I'm not a big Vala fan, although I figure I better find a way to write her. I find season 9/10 and movie Daniel very intriguing, and without writing Vala, I'm very limited in terms of time frame. I'm thinking of going the 'Where's Waldo' route, and having her on a different spurious mission at the beginning of each late season story. ;)
I've got a Jonas story in the works, thanks to a ficathon, and I'm not finding it very easy to keep him from being rather generic. That will have to change, and quickly
Characters seem to be about the same for me, whether I'm writing in their point of view of outside it. My instinct is to write entirely from the third person, and that's what I did for my first 3 stories, or so. I stopped doing that when I realized that no one else wrote that way and that it is more challenging in a lot of ways, too. I think I'll try another third person story one of these days, though...
Addendum: the test problem went away, must have been post related. And I had a though about Daniel. One of the things that makes him difficult is that he changes not only from season to season, but occasionally, episode to episode. It's one of the things I love most about writing hime, but can lead to terrible errors in characterization if you're,say, watching a lot of season three while writing season eight.
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Date: 2009-03-12 01:56 am (UTC)My first thought is while I know who I fine the easiest to write, that has little to do with who I might write most sucessfully. ;) Only the reader can tell me that, and it's pretty subjective as characterization takes a lot of twists and turns out there.
I identify most with Daniel, and I find him the easiest to write. I usually have a pretty clear idea of what I think Daniel would think in a given situation. Whether I'm correct about that is something entirely different.
I'm fine with Jack when it's adventure or comedy, but I have a lot more trouble when it's serious. I make him talk to much, or at least I did in a story I'm working on currently. I had to cut out a big chunk of his dialogue and give most of the rest of it to Sam.
Sam. I have a lot of trouble with her. Part of it's the science. Part of it is a serious affinity for sarcasm. Part of it's that I just seem to have trouble writing female characters--beyond weird, I know, what with me being female and all. I have even more trouble writing Janet.
Teal'c is tough, but the rules are pretty clear. My big trouble with him is keeping him involved, especially when there's nothing Goa'uldy going on.
I usually know what to have Cam say, that part's easy, but it can take weeks to get the accent right, especially if the story is from his point of view, like the last one. There just aren't many southerners to observe up here in Canada.
(Note: does anyone know what the cat just walked on that made me not be able to insert text in previously written text without overwriting it? This is a problem!)
I'm not a big Vala fan, although I figure I better find a way to write her. I find season 9/10 and movie Daniel very intriguing, and without writing Vala, I'm very limited in terms of time frame. I'm thinking of going the 'Where's Waldo' route, and having her on a different spurious mission at the beginning of each late season story. ;)
I've got a Jonas story in the works, thanks to a ficathon, and I'm not finding it very easy to keep him from being rather generic. That will have to change, and quickly
Characters seem to be about the same for me, whether I'm writing in their point of view of outside it. My instinct is to write entirely from the third person, and that's what I did for my first 3 stories, or so. I stopped doing that when I realized that no one else wrote that way and that it is more challenging in a lot of ways, too. I think I'll try another third person story one of these days, though...
Addendum: the test problem went away, must have been post related. And I had a though about Daniel. One of the things that makes him difficult is that he changes not only from season to season, but occasionally, episode to episode. It's one of the things I love most about writing hime, but can lead to terrible errors in characterization if you're,say, watching a lot of season three while writing season eight.