The two main characters: the soldier (protagonist) and the fairy (antagonist) he makes a deal with.
I think I already used my best ones for other days soooo how about these:
"How is it that an ice fairy can feel the cold?"
"How does a soldier feel pain? Just because you're used to a thing, or because you can control it, are you exempt from feeling it?"
I think my favorite descriptions so far in this are when the characters watch each other. They can be so focused on each other that everything else stops existing--the forest, the world outside the tent, the battle around them.
yup
Sam and Dean are....the antagonists?
is this about love?
"Did you know we have hearts too? Not very good ones, and sometimes they get lost or broken. But there is in my chest a heart that cannot be mine, because it isn't the one I had when we made our deal and it certainly doesn't belong to me. So I can't take yours as payment, as your debt is already paid in full"
He thinks he wants honor and glory, that winning battles and reclaiming his family's lands will achieve that. He thinks it will be the magic key to getting people to like him, to making friends and real connections, to being something other than the pitiable but still pampered princeling who can't and won't inherit.
So he promises his heart in a deal that will gain him the honor, the glory, his family's lands and the safety of his nation's borders.
....Which ends up being the thing in the way of him following through with those friends/connections that he really wanted. Because, I mean, I'm not a biologist, but humans don't do well at staying alive without hearts.
My main character accosts a fairy in the forest, because he's seeking out the near-mythical aid of the forest fairies. The fairy he finds is totally willing to play at war for a price...
Part of the reason my mc joined the military was because it gave him a place he could belong, and he's pretty close to his commanding officer--he's totally her right hand man, and he could probably have a higher rank but they work really well together and neither one of them is terribly interested in changing that.
That said, I'd like for there to be serious best-friend potential between the main character and his romantic counterpart, even if their friendship in-story is a little more complicated.
I have about three or four big story projects in various stages of draft, and this year my goal is to finish one (1) of them.
As a writer? Hmm. I like to follow ideas off the edge of my page and then get distracted by new ones, and I like to fit story pieces together like puzzles, and I like to tell bits of stories to my friends because provoking emotional reactions in others is rewarding.
And I generally put too much thought into the physical mechanics of the magic of things.
I'm gonna cheat and switch gears here--and answer this one for not-my-current-wip. Because Dean freakin' Winchester is the hardest character for me to write I think. His motivations require mental gymnastics for me to really get why he does things? And I need to know why he does things, even if I've got an intuitive guess what he's gonna do. Add to that, that I disagree with a lot of his choices (and I'm offended by the canonical narrative that upholds them nine-and-a-half times out of ten) and I just find him frustrating and hard to write.
Fun, though. To try.
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Not really? I'm not sure any story has ever been easy for me to write.
"I will do what you ask, but you bargain with your heart. When your land is restored and your honor is reclaimed, it belongs to me."
I ask myself a lot why they act the way they do. If the plot is an effect, or a consequence, what's the cause/reason for it. I chat with scorn, I ask a bunch more what-if questions, and I tell myself and/or scorn little bits of story that I'm figuring out and try to put into words what it is about my impression of these characters that makes them feel that way to me.
He's loyal, he's a bit headstrong, and a little too serious. He makes decisions too quickly but he sticks to them once he's decided. He's willing to make sacrifices because he does not value his life as highly as he values his perceived duties (to the military, to his family).
The story that I've been thinking about most recently is a fic I've codenamed Project Tiger's Eye because I don't know what to title it yet--the main character makes a deal with a fairy for their help to win a war. They fight battles, drive out the enemy, and forge a (what will eventually be romantic) connection with each other that leaves them in a tough position when the payment for the deal comes due. And there's a majestic battle tiger.
awww we'll miss you
I have about a thousand new words on project here & now. Also a lot of christmas present making, which isn't writing, but it's accomplishments so yay?
WOAH what a good article
I do this too! not that I don't get stuck anyway, but it's really useful. I know some people use weird code words that are easy to search for, but I like brackets because I can write out what I do know about the missing word(s).
I like this article a lot!
Instead characters should be people who caused bad things to happen to themselves.
It really does make stories so much more interesting when the characters screw things up and have to deal with the consequences.
I don't think this is something I do well--coming up with terrible things that happen is a lot easier than making the characters responsible for the terrible things that happen. I do think that, looking at a story from the lens of a character's major flaw(s) helps a lot. By saying "what is this character so wrong about that it's going to blow up in their face until they learn better (or not)" it's easier to make the character responsible for things that go wrong... because they are wrong about the thing and it will bite them in the ass.
Oh man, same.
Star Wars: TFA but in the Supernatural universe. The First Order are vampires, Leia is an old hunter with Poe as her sidekick. Finn and Rey shenanigans. Angels are involved. It's fun (or it will be, if I can find some brain cells to work on it more).
I don't knowwww I like a lot of different side pairings.
I think everyone ever has already read Plus One so uhm... Yeah. is probably the goofiest thing I've ever written and right now I need more happy stuff to read I think so there's that?



SPN Fic WritersWIPjoy day 13 (late!)Jan 18 at 2:55 AM