Survey: Easiest character to write
POSTED BY: SpaceAnJL
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 17:47
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Mal has always been easy for me to write. And I'm usually on the fence with River as I stated in the last thread, but usually, her voice comes to me after a while.
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I think Mal is the easiest, although I enjoy Jayne the most. I didn't have much Jayne in my last fic, and I missed him sorely!
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Who do I find easiest to write?
Probably Jayne, but then, I'm obsessed with him. Hardest to write? Mal. Mal says something silent with every word he says outloud. I have a difficult time putting that into words.
For example, when Nathan Fillion took Mal, had him look into that box full of naked River, and utter, "Huhn"- that huhn meant a thousand different things. It's very difficult to make that come across on paper.
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Oddly enough (as is the trend) I think I write Jayne best. Not my favorite charachter, but likely the most straightforward. One can always know much of what he is thinking. At first this realization startled me. I didn't think it a very good thing...
I have written several (unintentional) Zoe fics too, I guess I can identify with her grief. *sob* Wash.
Wash is my fav, but I have some hard times with writing him. Don't quite have the humor down.
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I find Inara and Simon's dialogue easiest. For Mal, Jayne and Kaylee in particular, I find it very hard to provide a suggestion of their dialect speech without going too far into phonetic representation, which I never like to do in any circumstances. However, I find Mal's point of view easiest to write from in general - being inside his head and getting in touch with his thought processes comes fairly naturally to me. Inara in that respect I find very difficult (the combination of these factors may one day lead to an Inara/Mal from me in his POV with dialogue solely from her). I've had moments of success with River, but not many.
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I find it very hard to provide a suggestion of their dialect speech without going too far into phonetic representation, which I never like to do in any circumstances.
This is what I love most of all. Vernacualr is my favorite thing in the world to write. As an English major and an all around lover of the language, and each of its forms, I know how to properly write. That said, I mostly prefer not to. I take the characterizations that Joss left us with and run with them. I even make up my own words. I think it's allowed when one knows standard English. However, when my dad makes up words... it's just bad.
But I digress from the topic.
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I'm in the majority (I think) who think Inara is not too difficult to write. I guess it's because there's so much mystery surrounding her leaving House Madrassa - so much potential for a backstory!! Also I think 'Heart of Gold' filled in a lot of the blanks about Inara (for me anyway) in terms of her emotional er...'stuff'. I mean I was stunned to see her cry after she ran into Mal in the hall coming out of Nandi's room. I would've never known she would break down like that! Granted, it's only my 'take' on Inara that I find easy to write...so that in itself poses some problems but eh...
Wash is also difficult to capture - mostly because I'm not good at writing 'funny'. A very sad failing of mine which try as I might I am unable to rectify.
However, unlike most here I actually find Simon really hard to write. I don't know what's the balance of deadpan humour and reserve with him. Maybe it's just because I'm bad at writing in general or whatever but I think he's a little more complex than the other characters. He's very quiet but there's a lot of interesting contradictions in his personality which makes him so interesting. Fanfics can pose problems when people don't quite capture those nuances of character. Of course this is totally my opinion and there are a vast number of people who carry it off perfectly. I'm just not one of them...
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