WIP Challenge check-in, day 22 -- Monday

[xmarksthespotwhereistand]

 Hello!
How is the second day going?
- wrote some words
- wrote some more
- edited words
- brainstormed a fic
- did something else related to writing
- life happened
- taking a break
Monday's discussion: have you ever written a character OOC and din't mind because that worked better for the fic?

Comments

[linaewen]

I am not sure if I will get much done today, as it is a busy day, but we'll see. Yesterday was productive in that I reached my daily word count goal, but I'm not sure if what I wrote is helpful for my story or not!

I don't think I have written an OOC character as yet, at least not in a way that I felt was OOC. I am often a slave to canon so I think it might be hard for me -- but it would be an interesting exercise to try, especially if it worked for the fic.

[mistressofmuses]

I haven't dived into my writing for the day, but I hit over 1000 words yesterday, so I'm feeling good for the week so far! Gonna work on today's writing next.

For the OOC question... I usually give myself a built in excuse because I write a lot of AUs, and I can justify that "well, character x might act like this in a universe where they had xyz thing happen to them..." lol.
But if the fic demands it, then I don't mind someone being OOC, to an extent. For me the most important thing is that their characterization is consistent *within the fic*, even if that may or may not be completely true to their canon incarnation. (And I feel like canon interpretation of character provides a lot of interpretive wiggle room, anyway.)
Though if someone is straying too far from recognition, sometimes that means I need to reconsider some aspect of my fic.