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Happy happy joy joy!
Writing thought of the day - I like things happy. (You may now be shocked.) Okay, not the syrupy happy as I'd probably hit myself. If I like a character, I want that character to be happy. I've pretty much always been that way for some reason. Yeah, they're fictional, I know. But I still want them to be happy. Maybe that's why with shows, half the time I'll fall into a ship. And I do want that happily ever after. Oh, not the naive fairy tale happily ever after, full of triplets and not a single argument. Life has its ups and downs, but I'd like to see them generally content.
Angst with a point, I can buy - it's often a good road for character development. I had more than a few emails about the ouch-factor when it came to Rose in my recent fic. It's funny, because when I was writing those scenes, I wasn't thinking, "how can I whump Rose emotionally?" but rather the whole time it was "Rose really needs to grow in this one aspect, and this is a path to get her there." Honestly, I was completely clueless that it was "ouchy" until one of the betas ow-ed at me.
But I also think there's a danger of dragging out angst. It can get to a point where you want to shake the character by the shoulders and yell, "get control of your life and/or get the HELL away from this shit!" It's that old "the character's turning into a moron" thing. At least for me.
So I'll probably always be writing generally fluffy fic with possibly a side of accidental angst.
*gives characters cookies and cocoa*
Crap. I'm gonna be one of those old ladies that dresses her cats in hats and booties, aren't I?
Angst with a point, I can buy - it's often a good road for character development. I had more than a few emails about the ouch-factor when it came to Rose in my recent fic. It's funny, because when I was writing those scenes, I wasn't thinking, "how can I whump Rose emotionally?" but rather the whole time it was "Rose really needs to grow in this one aspect, and this is a path to get her there." Honestly, I was completely clueless that it was "ouchy" until one of the betas ow-ed at me.
But I also think there's a danger of dragging out angst. It can get to a point where you want to shake the character by the shoulders and yell, "get control of your life and/or get the HELL away from this shit!" It's that old "the character's turning into a moron" thing. At least for me.
So I'll probably always be writing generally fluffy fic with possibly a side of accidental angst.
*gives characters cookies and cocoa*
Crap. I'm gonna be one of those old ladies that dresses her cats in hats and booties, aren't I?