Snowflake Challenge Day 1
Jan. 3rd, 2014 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
therealsnapeNot sure I'll make it through all the 15 days, but I'll give the Snowflake Challenge a try, too.
Here's the assignment for Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I've taken my favourite fanworks, in the sense that they were such complete fun to create. The kind of story that doesn't take endless agonizing, but is a joy already during the writing.
Subtlety Personified, because Horace's POV is such a joy to write, and for me he's so easy. That's why I wrote him a second time, when I was that stuck on Beholder that I thought I'd have to drop out. In the end I managed to locate a decent prompt, by mining old Hoggywarty signups, and Horace's voice simply took over. All one has to do is edit a bit - the old boy does tend to waffle.
Cocktail Time, because, darlings, writing Rita is too, too thrilling for words. She can be so wonderfully catty and completely over-the-top; it's just great fun to take up her quill. And in a way, Cocktail Time is a detective story, even though the readers know all along what's wrong. As a life-long, ardent devourer of whodunnits, I really enjoyed trying one myself.
Which automatically leads to the next one: my first real detective story. The Case of the Living Portrait. The start of a slowly growing series.
And now that the whole linking business is done, I notice that these are all first-person POV's. I must say I really enjoy getting into the skin of a character, and I think that a growing confidence to do so characterizes my writing. I've never written a full story with a Filch POV, but when I started writing in 2009, I wouldn't even have dared to include him as a cameo for fear of getting the working class voice all wrong.
Here's the assignment for Day 1: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I've taken my favourite fanworks, in the sense that they were such complete fun to create. The kind of story that doesn't take endless agonizing, but is a joy already during the writing.
Subtlety Personified, because Horace's POV is such a joy to write, and for me he's so easy. That's why I wrote him a second time, when I was that stuck on Beholder that I thought I'd have to drop out. In the end I managed to locate a decent prompt, by mining old Hoggywarty signups, and Horace's voice simply took over. All one has to do is edit a bit - the old boy does tend to waffle.
Cocktail Time, because, darlings, writing Rita is too, too thrilling for words. She can be so wonderfully catty and completely over-the-top; it's just great fun to take up her quill. And in a way, Cocktail Time is a detective story, even though the readers know all along what's wrong. As a life-long, ardent devourer of whodunnits, I really enjoyed trying one myself.
Which automatically leads to the next one: my first real detective story. The Case of the Living Portrait. The start of a slowly growing series.
And now that the whole linking business is done, I notice that these are all first-person POV's. I must say I really enjoy getting into the skin of a character, and I think that a growing confidence to do so characterizes my writing. I've never written a full story with a Filch POV, but when I started writing in 2009, I wouldn't even have dared to include him as a cameo for fear of getting the working class voice all wrong.
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Date: 2014-01-03 08:13 am (UTC)All those three are a joy to read, too. Though I have to admit that for me as a reader, first person is often tricky. If I find myself disagreeing with a main character, I enjoy a story less when I only get their POV without any narrative distance.
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Date: 2014-01-03 10:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-03 09:32 am (UTC)I do have a different favourite fanwork of yours, therefore think you are at least as good diving into Irma's skin, but, well... so I can consider this "my gift from you" ♥
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Date: 2014-01-03 11:02 am (UTC)And I did love getting into Irma's skin, and giving her a voice of her own, but it's still different to do it in 1st person POV.
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Date: 2014-01-03 09:27 pm (UTC)I haven't read nearly any Potterverse for over a year, but I will get back to it eventually. Good to have some things to look out for on my Kindle then. :o)
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Date: 2014-01-04 07:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-04 04:23 pm (UTC)"Cocktail Time" uses a favorite detective-novel premise of mine -- when the readers know whodunnit, and the fun is watching the other characters figure it out.
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Date: 2014-01-04 07:05 pm (UTC)Thank you for the lovely words on my version of Horace. One of the reasons I still feel smug about that tale is that it needed very little post-beta work - I was so pleased you agreed with my feeling that I got it right straight away.
Without your brilliant beta work I wouldn't write at all, of course.