thirty days of fanfic, day eight
Sep. 8th, 2011 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlh(list of questions can be found at day one)
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8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
Ugh, I hate the term Mary Sue. The only time I've written actual proper Mary Sues is when I wrote that self-insert Duran Duran fic. Now that people talk about Canon Sues and all the rest I think it's just become another way to say, "I don't like that female character."
That said, I haven't needed to write actual OC's because I generally write in fandoms where there are lots of characters that you can pull in to meet a specific need in the narrative. And while I suppose one could say that in writing any minor character one is "essentially" writing an OC, that's just like saying that all fanfic is OOC because it's not canon. It's something you can say, but it's so broad as to be meaningless.
Mostly my OC's have been kids, and very lightly sketched. Probably the one with the most personality in my head is Annie Weasley-Wood, but I haven't really yet written the stories in which she features more prominently.
one | two | three | four | five | six | seven
8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
Ugh, I hate the term Mary Sue. The only time I've written actual proper Mary Sues is when I wrote that self-insert Duran Duran fic. Now that people talk about Canon Sues and all the rest I think it's just become another way to say, "I don't like that female character."
That said, I haven't needed to write actual OC's because I generally write in fandoms where there are lots of characters that you can pull in to meet a specific need in the narrative. And while I suppose one could say that in writing any minor character one is "essentially" writing an OC, that's just like saying that all fanfic is OOC because it's not canon. It's something you can say, but it's so broad as to be meaningless.
Mostly my OC's have been kids, and very lightly sketched. Probably the one with the most personality in my head is Annie Weasley-Wood, but I haven't really yet written the stories in which she features more prominently.
