annoying prots
Sep. 27th, 2009 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkI am writing a story. A fic, to be precise. Which I haven´t done before, ever. (Except one tiny little snippet that doesn´t count, not really.) No, this time, I´m already at about 4k words (and yes, that´s what other people write in an afternoon, but it took me over a week and I´m proud of it) and I´m nearly half-finished. Only I just found out now that my main protagonist doesn´t really have its own personality. Which... is kind of embarrassing. So I have to figure him out and then rewrite the scenes that don´t fit.
That wouldn´t be a problem if that stupid prot wouldn´t obstinately refuse to have an easy personality. Maybe it´s just because 1) he´s more normal than my usual victims, or 2) I can´t model him after people I know. The only fictional role model might be Daniel Jackson and I don´t really watch SG-1.
But unlike what I did every other time a story annoyed me, I have to finish this one because I have someone who said (s?)he wants to read it for which I will be eternally grateful once I finish it. I even have a good title. Well, I think it´s good.
So, back to questioning that guy. (I don´t think my questionnaire for him is fair, though. And it´s not easy to imagine how someone who had a normal life will react to meeting aliens. Pity, though, that I probably have to erase that well-written panic attack.)
And on a side-note, if my little brother were here and not in New Zealand then I could rant to him in person which would be much more fun.
Edit: I think I found his personality. Now I don´t like him anymore. But at least I can write him - first I have to re-write the cooking scene. I must be a strange person to consider this fun.
That wouldn´t be a problem if that stupid prot wouldn´t obstinately refuse to have an easy personality. Maybe it´s just because 1) he´s more normal than my usual victims, or 2) I can´t model him after people I know. The only fictional role model might be Daniel Jackson and I don´t really watch SG-1.
But unlike what I did every other time a story annoyed me, I have to finish this one because I have someone who said (s?)he wants to read it for which I will be eternally grateful once I finish it. I even have a good title. Well, I think it´s good.
So, back to questioning that guy. (I don´t think my questionnaire for him is fair, though. And it´s not easy to imagine how someone who had a normal life will react to meeting aliens. Pity, though, that I probably have to erase that well-written panic attack.)
And on a side-note, if my little brother were here and not in New Zealand then I could rant to him in person which would be much more fun.
Edit: I think I found his personality. Now I don´t like him anymore. But at least I can write him - first I have to re-write the cooking scene. I must be a strange person to consider this fun.
