#coz 36 and gordon are like 'exactly that relationship but if edward had developed a backbone by 1923 instead of 1964'
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Oho, 17 and 18 are both interesting ones~ (Your favourite character to write this year? & The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?)
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17. Your favorite character to write this year?
Hmm...! Toby and Donald have both been super rewarding. I know I carped about the process of working with them a lot - I felt pressured because my problems with them emerged only after I started publishing a fic that people were reading. But! I did enjoy the "problem" of working with them. I'd never written them very much before but they wound up with more screentime cos I found I really liked them.
They wound up adding a lot of depth to the story, cos neither wishes to get dragged into #Drama. But they're also both quite well-equipped to handle it, when they are. ๐
18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
I was having some difficulty with Thomas and Gordon early in the year, specifically sketcing out where they land at the end of Small World. They had to be quintessentially #Them, even though they're in an alt-timeline and some heavy stuff has gone down and their relationship can't be the same as how we know it. But it still has to be recognizable. Very so.
Was pulling out my hair for a few weeks, but once I finally produced good copy for them I was basically ready to start my second draft/publishing!
Ironically, Toby with Henrietta was a also bit of a speed-bump. Too straight-married-couple coded for my blood! Again, once I got the hang of it things were fine (writing Henrietta's reaction to Toby's two near-fistfights in Ch. 5 was fun) but it certainly required a few runs before I got my wheels under me.
#chatter#my other favorite character to write was an OC...#cat you know him. but... ๐
#i spent a little time working with my character from a previous furness universe. 124/36. based on a plot idea from houseboat.#basically 'edward's supercilious twin stays on sodor after wwi'#'he has an accident topham hatt rebuilds him and neutralizes his antagonism'#it was fun to write good!36#felt self-indulgent. but very fun.#now i think about it he and gordon had incredible chemistry and it might have been a way of working on my edward and gordon ask#coz 36 and gordon are like 'exactly that relationship but if edward had developed a backbone by 1923 instead of 1964'#in contrast edward's twin *and henry* were the dumpster fire#anyway. point was. an oc that was very fun to write.#possibly just coz he was a break from the huge-ness and angst of the small-world project#this side project was pretty low-key. 'the three railway engines but. like. chill. no trauma.'#so it mightn't have been the character per se. just the change of pace.
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