30 Day Fanfic Writing Meme Day 10

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Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

I like Spike/Buffy, and even though I wrote them way back in the day, I find I can’t write them these days. And I’ve tried. But there just doesn’t seem to be anything I have to contribute to this pairing that hasn’t already been done a thousand times. No depth I can explore since, even though they have a complicated relationship, for me, it’s your run of the mill love/hate fest. I can write Spike, I think, although the ultimate judge of that is anyone who reads what I write, but I find I can’t write Buffy at all. I can’t relate to her and I don’t understand her self-loathing. So that sort of throws a wrench into any fic I might have thought about doing with them.

On the other hand, I wrote a fic once where I temporarily paired Cordelia with Lindsay and…I found writing them (in those circumstances) was way easier than I thought considering Cordelia’s opinion of the Tiny Texan. Ditto for Angel and Darla. D/A seems like it’d be fun because of the mutual destruction littered with flashes of caring. I’m sure I could write them without a lot of effort.




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Comments

[xlivvielockex.livejournal.com]

While I love C/A, I kind of love when you step out of that comfort zone and write something else.

I have a problem writing Spuffy too because I always feel like my Spike voice could move into ridiculous very easily. And I am with you in that sometimes, I just don't understand Buffy.

Cordy is easy for me to understand cause I am here and through writing Angel, I have gotten to understand him so much more.