You know Kara is my favorite but it's hard for me to put her in the role of 'princess'.
Yeah, she doesn't sit docily waiting for the prince; she's too prone to saving herself before he can arrive. The cylons' ability to download does change the nature of the relationship a bit, eh? Princess can't save herself even if she does kill the monster.
Yeah, the monsters sometimes get my sympathy. But only if they are aware that they are monsters, that they are wrong somehow. I'm not sure if Leoben has that awareness or even struggles with his wrongness. We just don't know.
Obviously Leoben doesn't have to have that awareness of being a monster for me to feel sympathetic towards him... but we've talked about that before. Heh. And since I'm passing blame along in this post, I'll blame CKR. (He's been blamed by me before, so this is nothing new.)
Writing depressing stuff puts me in a depressing mood. And writing fluff cheers me up.
Hm. I don't think that's true of me. Instead I'm pleased when I get the depressing stuff to hit the right sad note.
I love my ideas too! It's hard to prompt people sometimes because the best ideas, I want to write myself!
The fun thing about prompts is how differently one person can perceive the beginning of a story. The more I've been writing, the more self-aware I feel as I do it, but the initial idea is still mysterious to me. Why does my brain suddenly write a story about Boomer when the prompt said nothing about her? For you, why does the word 'yellow' suddenly involve Leoben bring Kara into a projection with him?
I think an interesting fic-a-thon would be to have one prompt with as many people writing it as possible, just to see the different results. (Unfortunately I could also foresee a lot of dramatics coming out of this, so it's probably not practical.)
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Yeah, she doesn't sit docily waiting for the prince; she's too prone to saving herself before he can arrive.
The cylons' ability to download does change the nature of the relationship a bit, eh? Princess can't save herself even if she does kill the monster.
Yeah, the monsters sometimes get my sympathy. But only if they are aware that they are monsters, that they are wrong somehow. I'm not sure if Leoben has that awareness or even struggles with his wrongness. We just don't know.
Obviously Leoben doesn't have to have that awareness of being a monster for me to feel sympathetic towards him... but we've talked about that before. Heh. And since I'm passing blame along in this post, I'll blame CKR. (He's been blamed by me before, so this is nothing new.)
Writing depressing stuff puts me in a depressing mood. And writing fluff cheers me up.
Hm. I don't think that's true of me. Instead I'm pleased when I get the depressing stuff to hit the right sad note.
I love my ideas too! It's hard to prompt people sometimes because the best ideas, I want to write myself!
The fun thing about prompts is how differently one person can perceive the beginning of a story. The more I've been writing, the more self-aware I feel as I do it, but the initial idea is still mysterious to me. Why does my brain suddenly write a story about Boomer when the prompt said nothing about her? For you, why does the word 'yellow' suddenly involve Leoben bring Kara into a projection with him?
I think an interesting fic-a-thon would be to have one prompt with as many people writing it as possible, just to see the different results. (Unfortunately I could also foresee a lot of dramatics coming out of this, so it's probably not practical.)