[ SECRET POST #3055 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3055 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Question for the serious Fanficcers

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, this one is difficult because I don't really analyze what I'm doing to get the result you're talking about.

However, I would suggest really researching a character. If your canon has a lot of character history, really internalize what's being said and think about how that history affected the character. If there isn't any history, try to think about what kind of history the character could've had (and think critically if that history is consistent with what you know or not).

Then, once you know where the character's been, think about how that affects his/her worldview. How would it clash with other characters? What kinds of situations would make the character angry or sad or happy? What are the character's goals? His/her fears? How would his/her past affect his/her vocabulary?

Before I write, I sometimes put boundaries on a character's speech. So, for instance, a lower class-type of character would use more contractions and colloquial phrases and wouldn't use very many big words. Sometimes I find a few words that are regional or specific to the character's time and place and canon to pepper in (sparingly!) to help remind me that this character is not me.

I personally spend a lot of prep work while forming the story itself. In doing so, I have a lot of opportunity to see if the characters would be in the situations they find themselves and ask myself how would they really react. If they're doing something to begin with that's unlike them, then it's hard to stay in character. And if I do want them there, then I have to figure out what would drive them to be there and how they would react. Then it seems to flow from there.

Re: Question for the serious Fanficcers

[(Anonymous)]

That helps, thank you. So just keep referring back to their scenes and keep with them?

Re: Question for the serious Fanficcers

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, and when something starts to feel flat, just keep asking questions about if the character would really do or not do something and why.