Check-in day 26, Thursday

[insignia]

What's going on today?

• I wrote
• I edited
• I sent to beta
• I posted
• I researched
• I planned
• I did something else

Discussion: Do you like including your own characters in fanfiction, or do you stick to plots where the canon characters are enough?

Comments

[the_rck]

I'm supposed to keep weight off my right foot at least until the 13th. This is going to be hard. I've been so busy with life stuff today that I haven't done any writing. I'm still hoping to this evening, but I'm not sure it will work out.

I'm willing to include original characters in stories when they serve a purpose that canonical characters can't. That mostly happens in very long stories, things with a broad scope. I do generally keep the focus on the canonical characters so that the OCs are supporting characters.

[sharpiefan]

I've actually been doing some writing, OMG. (Co-writing an original fic with a friend. It is writing, and it's been way too long since I last did any of that.)

I include OCs in longer fics, and I find I like to tell a known story from a different perspective, which is very often that of an OC or a minor character. I think a lot of it depends on what the story is - sometimes I want to explore a facet of a known canon character and sometimes I want to show how a canon event appeared to others involved in it. Those fics do tend to be the longer ones, though.

[linaewen]

I'm about to start fiddling with my story prompts, so maybe some writing will come out of that!

I make use of OC's in my longer fics, and sometimes those established OC's creep into some of my smaller fics as well. I find them helpful for providing a different POV or as someone the canon main characters can interact with so that their characters are better revealed.

[merryghoul]

Planning. Meh.

[samuraiter]

I enjoy using OCs, but ... I try not to. They absolutely murder my comment / review count. :-( (Seriously, it's like they signal readers to tune out ... or to skip the parts that have OCs, and then complain that they can't follow what's going on.)