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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Ten
Jul. 10th, 2011 07:03 am10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
With the same caveat as yesterday, that I don't write many pairings-focused stories to begin with and am mostly a gen person, writing-wise: there are a great deal of pairings I'm fond of to watch and to read about which I didn't write, and have no intention of writing. Either because the primary source of canon gave me all I wanted, or because there is excellent fiction by other people to be had while I'm happy to continue writing gen. However, two instances of me writing pairings I didn't like came immediately to mind. Both were prompt fics. Both inspired the part of me that likes to write disturbing things, so I was happy with the result.
One was for a Babylon 5 ficathon and the prompt was Anna Sheridan/Morden and should include something about Morden's family. This immediately meant two major problems to circumnavigate for me( . Spoilers for Babylon 5 ensue. )
The other story was also a prompt fic, for my other beloved space station, Deep Space Nine, and the prompt was to write about a character one can't stand, from their pov. Now, there are very few people on DS9 I genuinenly dislike. The Prophets, however, are probably No.1.; so clearly a Prophet it had to be. ( Spoilers for DS9 ensue. )
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With the same caveat as yesterday, that I don't write many pairings-focused stories to begin with and am mostly a gen person, writing-wise: there are a great deal of pairings I'm fond of to watch and to read about which I didn't write, and have no intention of writing. Either because the primary source of canon gave me all I wanted, or because there is excellent fiction by other people to be had while I'm happy to continue writing gen. However, two instances of me writing pairings I didn't like came immediately to mind. Both were prompt fics. Both inspired the part of me that likes to write disturbing things, so I was happy with the result.
One was for a Babylon 5 ficathon and the prompt was Anna Sheridan/Morden and should include something about Morden's family. This immediately meant two major problems to circumnavigate for me( . Spoilers for Babylon 5 ensue. )
The other story was also a prompt fic, for my other beloved space station, Deep Space Nine, and the prompt was to write about a character one can't stand, from their pov. Now, there are very few people on DS9 I genuinenly dislike. The Prophets, however, are probably No.1.; so clearly a Prophet it had to be. ( Spoilers for DS9 ensue. )
( The rest of the questions )
