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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Six
Jul. 6th, 2011 07:15 amI'm going through pangs of Borgias missing and was delighted to find Violent City, which though strictly based on history rather the tv show works for both and covers Lucrezia and Cesare through the years. (Lucrezia and Giulia fanfiction still needs to be written.) Now, on to the meme.
6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
I like both. It really depends on the story I want to tell. To use a Babylon 5 example, when I wrote my story about Timov and her marriage with Londo, it wouldn't have worked from Londo's pov at all, not least because what I wanted to do with the story was the flesh out and explore Timov, who in the show only appears in one episode. Otoh the G'Kar and Mariel story had to be written from G'Kar's point of view, not Mariel's, because at this point all the Centauri, including Mariel (and most definitely Londo) are Other to him, and he doesn't know what's going on inside them at all. Or: my Alias story where Emily Sloane and Irina Derevko talk during Truth Takes Time features solely the two of them because that was the point, I wanted interaction and reactions to each other because I didn't get it from canon, so bringing Arvin into the scene would have been counterproductive. Conversely, there are no women beyond one hapless churchgoer in Sacrificium, which is a story about Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow on a mission in Columbia set in the 80s, not least because it's a Sloane pov and during said mission, he's undercover as a monk, but also because the story deals with Sloane's growing (and at this point very underestimated by him) thing for Rambaldi and the interaction between him and Jack in the field. The women in their lives - Sydney (still a child), Emily and Laura/Irina (recently outed and gone) are by necessity of the field mission not present. So basically, again: it depends.
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6 – When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?
I like both. It really depends on the story I want to tell. To use a Babylon 5 example, when I wrote my story about Timov and her marriage with Londo, it wouldn't have worked from Londo's pov at all, not least because what I wanted to do with the story was the flesh out and explore Timov, who in the show only appears in one episode. Otoh the G'Kar and Mariel story had to be written from G'Kar's point of view, not Mariel's, because at this point all the Centauri, including Mariel (and most definitely Londo) are Other to him, and he doesn't know what's going on inside them at all. Or: my Alias story where Emily Sloane and Irina Derevko talk during Truth Takes Time features solely the two of them because that was the point, I wanted interaction and reactions to each other because I didn't get it from canon, so bringing Arvin into the scene would have been counterproductive. Conversely, there are no women beyond one hapless churchgoer in Sacrificium, which is a story about Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow on a mission in Columbia set in the 80s, not least because it's a Sloane pov and during said mission, he's undercover as a monk, but also because the story deals with Sloane's growing (and at this point very underestimated by him) thing for Rambaldi and the interaction between him and Jack in the field. The women in their lives - Sydney (still a child), Emily and Laura/Irina (recently outed and gone) are by necessity of the field mission not present. So basically, again: it depends.
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