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I'm so behind! How am I failing so badly at memeage?
Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Five
5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
I'm not sure if this quite counts, but Lindsey wasn't even supposed to be in Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. In the first draft of that story the character who shows up in Faith's slayer dream was Ethan; I love that character and I was so angry about what had happened to him in the S8 comics. Still, something wasn't working and when I looked at the prompt again there was a request to get Lindsey involved if at all possible, so I gave it a shot.
By the time I finished writing I couldn't imagine how I'd thought the story could work with anyone else; the whole theme of the world being saved by that universe's afterthoughts and also-rans was so much stronger with him that I felt dumb for not having realized it in the first place. I even came away shipping Faith/Lindsey quite a bit, I liked writing them interacting so much.
And this probably counts even less, but there's so much more of Jack in In Dreams than I'd originally planned. He wasn't even supposed to get a POV and wound up with two of them!
( The other days )
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Broke 8K on my Birthdayfest fic! Whoooooooooo!
Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Five
5 –If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?
I'm not sure if this quite counts, but Lindsey wasn't even supposed to be in Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down. In the first draft of that story the character who shows up in Faith's slayer dream was Ethan; I love that character and I was so angry about what had happened to him in the S8 comics. Still, something wasn't working and when I looked at the prompt again there was a request to get Lindsey involved if at all possible, so I gave it a shot.
By the time I finished writing I couldn't imagine how I'd thought the story could work with anyone else; the whole theme of the world being saved by that universe's afterthoughts and also-rans was so much stronger with him that I felt dumb for not having realized it in the first place. I even came away shipping Faith/Lindsey quite a bit, I liked writing them interacting so much.
And this probably counts even less, but there's so much more of Jack in In Dreams than I'd originally planned. He wasn't even supposed to get a POV and wound up with two of them!
( The other days )
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Broke 8K on my Birthdayfest fic! Whoooooooooo!
