30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 10

[osprey_archer]

10 – 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?

My attempts to write Pushing Daisies fic foundered on the shoals of this very problem. Actually, as a general rule, I seem to have trouble writing fic for - I was going to say sitcoms, but Pushing Daisies isn’t really a sitcom - so maybe highly stylized TV shows? Because sitcoms are highly stylized, not in the visual/musical sense that Pushing Daisies is, but the zany plots and the rapid-fire dialogue is very particular to that genre and it doesn’t seem to be something I can replicate in fic.

It occurs to me that this may lie behind my inability to write Veronica Mars fic, too. Also very stylized, in yet another way, with its whole candy-coated noir thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever written any pairings I didn’t like. Sometimes the thing I find most compelling about the pairing is its disaster potential, so I guess there are some pairings I’ve written that I don’t like in the sense that I don’t think the characters would be good together or last very long as a couple. But I still find them interesting.

Comments

[alby-mangroves.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the thing I find most compelling about the pairing is its disaster potential - I love that! So true. I really enjoy conflict and angst, and as you say, disaster potential.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Let's be real, Reciprocity is all about the disaster potential. Although the thing I find compelling about Steve/Bucky is that the disaster potential is almost evenly balanced with the epic love spanning time and continents potential, and it's like, Which one will win out???