Stolen food doesn't count, of course. No calories in stolen food....
Loads of stuff about me comes through my fics. It doesn't help that I'm attracted to characters that share some of my character flaws traits, so it's easy to get carried away. As for applying your own knowledge and specialisms to your character... I have a lot of Watari doing SPSS fic somewhere, and of course it's very easy to see some of my management struggles in Squall's leadership angst, or Hakkai's nagging. I have to check all the time whether my characters are analysing situations themselves or whether it's scribbles-the-sociologist at work. In my original fic I have to watch out for scribbles-the-campaigner and then there's politics... argh.
Then again, one of the reasons I write it so share my outlook and views on the world, in which case, why be so shy of it?
It's a worry when it comes to characterisation, but at some level I think every writer has to accept that not only will they inevitably appear in their own fics, whether they like it or not, but actually this is where your unique voice and style comes from, and if you supress it too much your writing can get very stale and formulaeic. Draw from the richness that's around you, and so long as your characters are still themselves and your story is coherent and consistent, what the fuck, eh?
(Also, Hakkai would most definitely be fascinated by anatomy. That's something you share, I think, not something that's imposed by your world view. Exploit it, is my advice! ^_^)
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Date: 2008-04-23 01:52 pm (UTC)Loads of stuff about me comes through my fics. It doesn't help that I'm attracted to characters that share some of my character
flawstraits, so it's easy to get carried away. As for applying your own knowledge and specialisms to your character... I have a lot of Watari doing SPSS fic somewhere, and of course it's very easy to see some of my management struggles in Squall's leadership angst, or Hakkai's nagging. I have to check all the time whether my characters are analysing situations themselves or whether it's scribbles-the-sociologist at work. In my original fic I have to watch out for scribbles-the-campaigner and then there's politics... argh.Then again, one of the reasons I write it so share my outlook and views on the world, in which case, why be so shy of it?
It's a worry when it comes to characterisation, but at some level I think every writer has to accept that not only will they inevitably appear in their own fics, whether they like it or not, but actually this is where your unique voice and style comes from, and if you supress it too much your writing can get very stale and formulaeic. Draw from the richness that's around you, and so long as your characters are still themselves and your story is coherent and consistent, what the fuck, eh?
(Also, Hakkai would most definitely be fascinated by anatomy. That's something you share, I think, not something that's imposed by your world view. Exploit it, is my advice! ^_^)