[ SECRET POST #2707 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2707 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Writing fic about pairings you don't ship

[(Anonymous)]

For me, it's mostly about finding something the two characters have in common. Not necessarily something they agree on, you understand, but some moment or belief or piece of backstory that sparks emotions in them both. For a starting point, I try to arrange a situation where that commonality will come to the surface for a moment. Doesn't matter if the immediate response on the characters' part is outrage or hatred or confusion, just so long as they realise that there's something about each other that resonates for them now. After that, it's a matter of luring the characters into exploring that sudden commonality. Depending on the pair in question, that might take ages or a relatively short time, and whether physicality is an immediate or later factor again depends on the characters, but it that's usually the shape the fic takes.

That's if the fic is for a first time sort of situation. If the prompt is for an established relationship, some of it will be the same - in fact most of it, in terms of figuring out what the relationship is like in my head - but you don't have to show it the same way. Well, not in order, anyway. I usually try to build it in, some indication of what would have drawn them together once upon a time, but you can have most of the story focus on them dealing with whatever current situation is detailed in the prompt.

For the most part, generally I'd advise trying to write that first story at least in your head, regardless of the prompt itself. Find something they have in common, something that matters to them both, if not necessarily in friendly or complimentary ways, and use it to establish an emotional connection between them. Once an emotional connection of any kind is established, it's relatively easy to turn whatever that emotion is around to the emotion you want - see every hatred-to-love story ever.

Re: Writing fic about pairings you don't ship

[seiskink]

This is good writing advice, even for writing fics about pairings you ship :)

Re: Writing fic about pairings you don't ship

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yup. Works for me for everything from my OTPs to prompt pairings to crack ships pulled off the wall ;) And I've written some odd pairs in my time ...