I do enjoy responding to challenges with specific criteria, mainly because I like having to think creatively in order to work successfully within the confinements.
I share your love of ambiguous characters - I've never found interest in reading about perfect characters. As you said, real people aren't like that; if real people were like that the world would implode from carbon-copy residue and there'd be no place for creativity and it would tragic. I've been writing for about five years, myself (though my attempts of the first three years were so pitiful I can't even tell you), and I used to write a lot of boring, predictable narrative - A meets B, they fall in love, they break up, they get back together, there are multiple drawn-out moments of painfully corny soppiness and then Oh look, they're getting married. *snores* That improved slightly when I started writing femslash, and started to delve more into the character's motivation and emotion, but I really only got better when I abandoned the notion of excitement - or plot in general, in some cases - in favour of character-examination. That's why nothing happens in much of my fic; I'm too busy applying my cereal-box degree in psychology to their every thought and movement...
I just went and looked at the wtf27 table, and several of the concepts caught my eye, so I'm bookmarking that particular page. This is exciting! I mean, I had already semi-developed an idea for an Adam/Wil Apocolypse fic, just because, so the fact that fun things like that are on the prompt-list makes me happy! Thanks for that :)
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Date: 2006-10-14 07:23 am (UTC)I share your love of ambiguous characters - I've never found interest in reading about perfect characters. As you said, real people aren't like that; if real people were like that the world would implode from carbon-copy residue and there'd be no place for creativity and it would tragic. I've been writing for about five years, myself (though my attempts of the first three years were so pitiful I can't even tell you), and I used to write a lot of boring, predictable narrative - A meets B, they fall in love, they break up, they get back together, there are multiple drawn-out moments of painfully corny soppiness and then Oh look, they're getting married. *snores* That improved slightly when I started writing femslash, and started to delve more into the character's motivation and emotion, but I really only got better when I abandoned the notion of excitement - or plot in general, in some cases - in favour of character-examination. That's why nothing happens in much of my fic; I'm too busy applying my cereal-box degree in psychology to their every thought and movement...
I just went and looked at the