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Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day Ten
Jul. 10th, 2011 05:01 pm10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
I don't think I've ever failed at writing a story because I unexpectedly discovered I couldn't write the pairing. (I have failed at writing stories for lots and lots of other reasons, but not that one.) I have always been a pretty good judge of which characters and relationships I can write about.
The reverse has occasionally happened, though - mentor/student pairings squick the hell out of me, but I still managed to write an Xavier/Rogue story that was intentionally disturbing. I also found G'Kar/Morden surprisingly entertaining to write and discovered that I actually could wrap my brain around Londo/Vir as long as it took place in a universe where things were ... different.
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I don't think I've ever failed at writing a story because I unexpectedly discovered I couldn't write the pairing. (I have failed at writing stories for lots and lots of other reasons, but not that one.) I have always been a pretty good judge of which characters and relationships I can write about.
The reverse has occasionally happened, though - mentor/student pairings squick the hell out of me, but I still managed to write an Xavier/Rogue story that was intentionally disturbing. I also found G'Kar/Morden surprisingly entertaining to write and discovered that I actually could wrap my brain around Londo/Vir as long as it took place in a universe where things were ... different.
( The rest of the questions ... )