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Sep. 6th, 2004 01:08 pmArgh. Mark this day on your calendars, people. My husband...agrees with my mother. What about, you may ask? My writing. They both think that fanfiction is a crutch for me and that I need to start creating my own characters and my own 'verses. I've got a start on them, of course. Pastor Tom, Mandy, Dusty, and Alicia all belong to me, and I could probably incorporate them into...something or other.
Heck, I've even figured out how to keep Spike. Lengthen and darken the hair, change the clothes a bit, give him a Southern accent instead of an English one, let him keep the attitude...After all, it's the personality of the character that's so compelling, right? So changing external things just enough to make him my own still lets me keep him around. Which is cheating a little, I'll admit, but I don't mind if no one else does.
Of course, writing original fiction is indimidating. I have to decide if I want to stick with the supernatural thing (with my own perspective, of course), or if I want to do something more general, or if I want to branch out into scifi or fantasy. And then there's the whole "what am I going to do with these characters" question. If I want to keep the vampires, I'll need to make them different enough from JossVerse vamps that they're mine and not his.
But all this is sounding suspiciously like...work. And again, I say: Argh.
Heck, I've even figured out how to keep Spike. Lengthen and darken the hair, change the clothes a bit, give him a Southern accent instead of an English one, let him keep the attitude...After all, it's the personality of the character that's so compelling, right? So changing external things just enough to make him my own still lets me keep him around. Which is cheating a little, I'll admit, but I don't mind if no one else does.
Of course, writing original fiction is indimidating. I have to decide if I want to stick with the supernatural thing (with my own perspective, of course), or if I want to do something more general, or if I want to branch out into scifi or fantasy. And then there's the whole "what am I going to do with these characters" question. If I want to keep the vampires, I'll need to make them different enough from JossVerse vamps that they're mine and not his.
But all this is sounding suspiciously like...work. And again, I say: Argh.
