being concise can be a good thing but it often means very small and limited stories. i have written longfic before (like 20k) but it was over a year ago and i would like to get into plot-writing again. i don't care much for perserving style, i'd rather experiment and evolve.
no ita, for me it's more abt reaching a characterization that i can stand for and feel happy with. i love aus! it's basically the only thing i write. i often fall in love with an au and have this very distinct feeling regarding it that i want to convey in my fic. i try to work more on surroundings and environmental descritions bec of this, but it's hard to keep it at a good level so it doesn't feel pointless or overshadows the actions and interactions of the characters
i don't read infinite fic but i can understand that dongwoo is a tricky character to write. that either ppl will totally agree with you or think you're totally wrong. i think a good trick is to never go for any extreme, because ppl are rarely black and white. they have different sides to them that you should try to include. without making them all bland and identical to one another ofc lol
i think it's really good that you do that. a lot of aus tend to focus on worldbuilding, and while the universes are memorable, the characterisations are compromised to drive the plot and they sound slightly unrealistic in many cases.
"but it's hard to keep it at a good level so it doesn't feel pointless or overshadows the actions and interactions of the characters" what do you mean though? (sorry it's late over here, my brain isn't in tip top condition)
ia! this is the most headache-inducing part for me since i'm so used to fics that try to paint characters as saints and it just feels odd to me when my readers tell me that my characters aren't very likeable (((but that's the point)))
yeah i'll try lol. at this point i'm just whipping myself to do proper brainstorming and outlining and just put as much on the paper as possible so i can sort out the good parts later.
oh, that's prob partially me doubting myself 24/7. but like too much world-building, going on and on abt the environment for instance, i find often doesn't serve a purpose and it feels very.. detached from the story? like here's a huge block of descriptions and here's a block of action. i don't want the au to be more important than what happens in the au, no matter how much i like it. so i try to weave it all together, mix environment details with actions, in the same sentence preferably. and like what you said abt details, i don't want to include any details that don't serve an actual purpose. i'm prob way too restrictive with this tho, so i think my prose might come out a bit.. dry. it's all abt fidning a balance, ig.
huge kudos to you for writing unlikeable characters, anon. those are often the most interesting to me. (as long as they have something in them that i can sympathize with. but just, regular human beings doing shitty things sometimes. that's a good character.)
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-17 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)no ita, for me it's more abt reaching a characterization that i can stand for and feel happy with. i love aus! it's basically the only thing i write. i often fall in love with an au and have this very distinct feeling regarding it that i want to convey in my fic. i try to work more on surroundings and environmental descritions bec of this, but it's hard to keep it at a good level so it doesn't feel pointless or overshadows the actions and interactions of the characters
i don't read infinite fic but i can understand that dongwoo is a tricky character to write. that either ppl will totally agree with you or think you're totally wrong. i think a good trick is to never go for any extreme, because ppl are rarely black and white. they have different sides to them that you should try to include. without making them all bland and identical to one another ofc lol
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)i think it's really good that you do that. a lot of aus tend to focus on worldbuilding, and while the universes are memorable, the characterisations are compromised to drive the plot and they sound slightly unrealistic in many cases.
"but it's hard to keep it at a good level so it doesn't feel pointless or overshadows the actions and interactions of the characters"
what do you mean though? (sorry it's late over here, my brain isn't in tip top condition)
ia! this is the most headache-inducing part for me since i'm so used to fics that try to paint characters as saints and it just feels odd to me when my readers tell me that my characters aren't very likeable (((but that's the point)))
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(Anonymous) 2013-10-17 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)oh, that's prob partially me doubting myself 24/7. but like too much world-building, going on and on abt the environment for instance, i find often doesn't serve a purpose and it feels very.. detached from the story? like here's a huge block of descriptions and here's a block of action. i don't want the au to be more important than what happens in the au, no matter how much i like it. so i try to weave it all together, mix environment details with actions, in the same sentence preferably. and like what you said abt details, i don't want to include any details that don't serve an actual purpose. i'm prob way too restrictive with this tho, so i think my prose might come out a bit.. dry. it's all abt fidning a balance, ig.
huge kudos to you for writing unlikeable characters, anon. those are often the most interesting to me. (as long as they have something in them that i can sympathize with. but just, regular human beings doing shitty things sometimes. that's a good character.)