WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 7 - Sunday

[the_rck]

Poll #13845

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Today I

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planned
3 (33.3%)

researched
1 (11.1%)

wrote
3 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
3 (33.3%)

posted
3 (33.3%)

rested
1 (11.1%)

did something else
3 (33.3%)

How I feel about today is

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Mean: 6.62 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.45

Awful 1		0 (0.0%)
2		1 (12.5%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		2 (25.0%)
6		1 (12.5%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		2 (25.0%)
9		1 (12.5%)
Wonderful 10		1 (12.5%)

Today's discussion question: When you write more than one story about the same character, do you find yourself writing different versions of the character or does your interpretation stay the same from story to story?

I tend to have different versions of each character to some extent. There are things that remain consistent, but I tend to think of the characters as attached to a particular story. Yohji in Rheotaxis is different from Yohji in Snare and from Yohji in Torsion.

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[sharpiefan]

I write - or try to write - characters so that they'll be recognisable from fic to fic, even if I explore different facets of their personalities, or show different responses to the situations they end up in.

(And I haven't written any fic for ages but came across a wickedly funny prompt that begged for a fic, so managed to write something just under 500 words. Now, if only I can produce more, regularly, I will be one happy ficcer. :D )

[linaewen]

I accomplished a lot yesterday, finishing two short stories, and posting one of them. The other will be posted later in the week. Today I have been planning and researching as I try to get words down to start an ornery chapter that is keeping me a bit stalled in one of my WIPs. I feel like I'm getting close to a break through, though -- having had some writing success yesterday is keeping me going! I've got a busy week coming up, so if I can continue to make progress with what's left of the weekend, I'll be happy.

My characters tend to be the same version in all the different stories I write that include them. In a sense, they are all stories that are part of the same time line, so they all fit together. Sometimes, though, I write tales that are deliberately out of the usual time line, and that's when my characters can look a bit different in their personalities.

[juliet316]

I try to keep the character the same, even if I'm writing different stories about him or her with various situations. I may tweak a few things here and there if it's an AU, or if the story's in the canonverse but calls for a different set of characteristics for a time, but I overall try to keep the characters with the same basic personality and traits.

[voksen]

Consistent characterization is probably the most important thing in writing fic to me. Unless it's an AU where the starting point is already outside of canon, I want my characters to be identifiable as the same character between fics and canon, though of course developing differently through fic events. Even in AUs, I like them to be as close as possible.

[lullabymoon]

No actual words but I did get the rest of the handwritten stuff typed up and that's made me feel loads better.

I tend to stick to the same interpretation for most of my characters, but mainly because my output is so low. If it was higher I might experiment a bit more.