Check-in: 24 May 2011

[charamei]

How's it going, everyone? Chugging along nicely?

Discussion time: What makes your favourite character your favourite?

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[xpaperplanex]

I didn't do any writing today (spent it driving, ugh) but I wanted to report on my awesome accomplishments over the weekend. I don't have a word count because it's all handwritten, but I filled about 45 pages in my notebook and drained a brand new pen! Now to decipher my scrawl and get typing... yay electricity!

I think what makes my favourite character my favourite is that you can write him so many different ways. He's evil in the original canon, but he wasn't always. I find that as long as I can come up with a convincing reason for him to act the way he does, I can have him do pretty much anything.

[jagnikjen]

Well, I'm track for my May challenge. I'll post the latest story later this afternoon. One more to go. So it's time to cracking on that one for next Wednesday. (Oh, wait--I might have already started that one and just need to finish it...)

Oh, and actually, not one to go since next Wednesday is a new month and I'm not sure I'm going to be as diligent about posting to the comm.

Anyway...I posted a non-smut HP story yesterday, called Sleeping With Harry, if anyone's interested.

As for what makes my favorite character(s) my favorites...that's a tough question. Thinking of my recent favorites (Harm from JAG, Robin from BBC's Robin Hood, Harry from Harry Potter, Spock from the Star Trek reboot) I'd say I love a hero. But not the perfect hero. These men all have flaws that make them oh so human. (Especially BBC's/Jonas Armstrong's portrayal of Robin.)

[curuchamion]

33,008 words total! Yes, chugging along nicely! Here's hoping I can keep up the momentum! (16,992 words to goooooooo!!!!)

I have many favorite characters. Almost all of them are gruff, snarky, clever-handed, casually heroic, and secretly or not so secretly love kids. I so utterly have a type. ;-)

[linaewen]

I haven't written anything fresh as yet today, but I was able to edit a bit and review some notes for a chapter and make some new ones. I'm hoping to do more than that later on in the day when I'm free again.

I was drawn to the character I write about most because he seemed to me to be the kind of hero that was true to life -- strong, valiant and honorable, but making mistakes, regretting them, and paying the price for them. He got killed off by his creator in the books, so I have taken it upon myself to keep him alive and develop him properly. ;-) It's great fun! He now has such a personality that I hardly remember that he's not supposed to be alive in canon.