[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[laughingpineapple]

True that! Variety and sense of scale, of relevance etc.

I like to experiment and lately my knee-jerk reaction to 'this genre/plot/trope is baaaaaad' is running with it and trying to make it work in one of my favourite fandoms... as a consequence, I've actually tried a lot of the scenarios that have come up in this topic. Outsider POVs, canon badass/Zabini!OC (as in, 'the dumped girlfriend' is mentioned in canon but that's literally all we know. They were together and he dumped her. I tried to write three chapters from her pov, right after being dumped, a little later and ten years later), functional OCs with minor roles all over the place, OC villain (and vaguely related to a minor canon character, to boot), main character's little sister, entirely OC-centric tale in a fandom setting, self-insertion.
I can't speak for quality, my writing can be crap, but I'd still defend all the narrative choices that led to their creation. The point is never 'my OCs are special', I'm trying to tell fandom things... through OCs.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah I love doing challenging fic ideas. AUs, OCs , Crossovers, what's life without a little risk? I think of it as a good way to improve my skills. If I just stick to always writing the safe stuff , I won't stretch myself.

But let me tell you, the fact that fanfic community is so wary of OCs and hearing Mary Sue all the time made me motivated to understand what Sue was and what made a good character. I while I wrote a lot in creative Writing classes there was still the fact that a lot of what I did was in a safe environment where as being on the internet is ..well...like being thrown headfirst into stormy seas and having to fight to survive. It's forced me to improve my writing.