Yeah, I am completely unconcerned about the effects of my prose in the world. What worries me is how much these characters come from aspects of myself that I wish didn't exist.
As to process: hmmm. Yes it makes a huge difference that this all takes place in the context of a RPG. This particular game has a lot of consultation off-camera, so most of what I know about my characters comes from explaining them to other writers -- there's a lot of "well, Binns would do X in response to Slughorn's doing Y, out of A B and C motives" where I wouldn't know his motives if I didn't have to explain them to the person who voices Slughorn.
My other black-hat character came into existence in my head in the moment when I was rejecting another writer's suggestion about her name - it wasn't until I told my fellow author "no, not that, it's too aristo, she's more of a thug" that I realized that she was a thug.
And I am very, very lucky to have these amazing writers to play with. Spider up there who voices Bellatrix? Holy cow she's scary-good. And Djinnj who is Fenrir is a fiend for research, and also just a fiend. And pretty much everyone else who writes in the game: they're intensely creative and imaginative and energetic and just, wow wow wow. So a lot of my process is just trying to keep up with the other authors, and usually failing too.
And then we have really smart, careful and opinionated readers who have their own comm, and I get the occasional idea from their speculations (sometimes I do what they think I'm going to do but would never have thought of doing until they suggested it. Hee!)
Usually the whole thing makes me intensely happy but writing the bad guys is hard this week.
I've been meaning to write about the general RPG experience as well, in more detail, but that's a start.
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Re: *pouts*
Date: 2007-06-26 03:49 am (UTC)*kicks lj*
Yeah, I am completely unconcerned about the effects of my prose in the world. What worries me is how much these characters come from aspects of myself that I wish didn't exist.
As to process: hmmm. Yes it makes a huge difference that this all takes place in the context of a RPG. This particular game has a lot of consultation off-camera, so most of what I know about my characters comes from explaining them to other writers -- there's a lot of "well, Binns would do X in response to Slughorn's doing Y, out of A B and C motives" where I wouldn't know his motives if I didn't have to explain them to the person who voices Slughorn.
My other black-hat character came into existence in my head in the moment when I was rejecting another writer's suggestion about her name - it wasn't until I told my fellow author "no, not that, it's too aristo, she's more of a thug" that I realized that she was a thug.
And I am very, very lucky to have these amazing writers to play with. Spider up there who voices Bellatrix? Holy cow she's scary-good. And Djinnj who is Fenrir is a fiend for research, and also just a fiend. And pretty much everyone else who writes in the game: they're intensely creative and imaginative and energetic and just, wow wow wow. So a lot of my process is just trying to keep up with the other authors, and usually failing too.
And then we have really smart, careful and opinionated readers who have their own comm, and I get the occasional idea from their speculations (sometimes I do what they think I'm going to do but would never have thought of doing until they suggested it. Hee!)
Usually the whole thing makes me intensely happy but writing the bad guys is hard this week.
I've been meaning to write about the general RPG experience as well, in more detail, but that's a start.