WIP Challenge - Check In, Day 4 - Wednesday

[the_rck]

Poll #14651

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Today I

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planned
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

wrote
2 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

edited
2 (33.3%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

rested
0 (0.0%)

did something else
4 (66.7%)

The way I feel about that is

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Mean: 4.33 Median: 4 Std. Dev 1.80

Awful 1		0 (0.0%)
2		1 (16.7%)
3		2 (33.3%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (16.7%)
6		1 (16.7%)
7		1 (16.7%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Marvelous 10		0 (0.0%)

Do you have a single vision of the characters you write often or do you find yourself differentiating the versions in different stories? That is, do you always write a given character the same way or do you vary your interpretations?

For me, it depends. There are some things about characters that I think are always true, but there are other things I change from story to story, mostly bits of backstory that aren't specified in canon. Any interpretation I take has to explain everything in canon and be consistent with what's on the screen or on the page. I think part of it is that I write divergent AUs so that the circumstances around the characters are always different from story to story; the stories aren't part of a single continuity.

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[lea_hazel]

This is the appeal of fanfic, to me: being able to create divergent character threads. If I want to do a dark interpretation of my favorite character, it doesn't bar me from later writing the same character as fluffy and well-adjusted. Which is good, because I like darkfic but too much of it in a short stretch can get me down.

[linaewen]

I'm writing today, but it's work-related newsletter stuff, not fun fandom writing. ;-) If I can get the work writing out of the way, though, I might actually have time and opportunity to starting putting words on paper for my Yulefic that I should be working on!

My characters are usually the same version, and even when I am writing AU, I don't go far afield of the character as established in canon (though my interpretation of that may differ from someone else's!) However, I have deviated from that a few times, and it's been interesting to write a different interpretation.

[canon_is_relative]

Hi! I found this community last month while I was eyeballs-deep in my NaNoWriMo project and kept forgetting to check back and see what it was all about and if I wanted to sign up for December writing...so here I am as a lurker to hopefully help motivate myself to write this Jim Kirk big bang fic I signed up for. I hope that's ok!

That's such an interesting question about differentiating versions of characters. I do to some extent but I also always find myself trying to shoehorn my different fics into the same universe even if I don't state it explicitly. That is, I tend to have fairly fixed ideas about what is canon-for-me that I stick to from one story to another, so my MC might seem to be the same in fic A as in fic B even if I don't call them sequels, but if I'm writing to a prompt or for a gift or fill where I'm considering someone else's preferences, I'll write whatever without regards to my own headcanon, and it feels like it's a completely different 'verse and version of the characters. I kind of like to play the game of figuring out "Ok at which point did this 'verse splinter off from my main 'verse to make the character this way instead of that way." I think that's part of what draws me to Trek AOS so much - I love finding the differences between the old and new characters while keeping them true to themselves.