Ask the Author: lyra wing
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: lyra wing |
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| Interviewee: | lyra wing |
| Date(s): | January 7, 2008 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here, Archived version |
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lyra wing was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
Way back, I used to write popslash ('N Sync! Yeah!). This was seriously back in the day, when the main form of communication was message boards. Then there was a long lull in which I didn't write much fanfic at all. On LJ, I posted a few fics in a smattering of fandoms (Ocean's 11, Good Omens, Lotrips, POTC, Star Wars RPS, X-men, etc...), but I wasn't really active. No fandom really grabbed me. Then... oh then.A little show called Supernatural came along. It was that unique brand of brotherly bonding and snarky humor that did it for me. Also, the scope of it, the personality and gritty feel of it... It was unlike any show I'd ever encountered. And there was so much fanfic potential to be had within it. As is evidenced by my writing archive, which is probably 95% SPN.
Wow, I've been in this fandom for a while. It was tiny at first! I remember back when the newsletter was just starting up. I remember when it was a really big deal that Sam and Dean were going back home to Lawrence, and I remember how OMGWTF we all were when we saw John alive for the first time. Ah, memories.
Hmmm. I think tend to write a lot of my humor stories from Dean's POV. The ones with a lot of snark and jokes. I tend to write a lot of the introspective and thoughtful ("sharing and caring") stories from Sam's POV. For me, Dean's narration lends itself to a faster-paced story, while Sam's narration seems slower.I think this is related to how I hear them in my head. I DO hear voices in my head; I think I am slightly crazy. *facepalm*
Dean's voice in my head doesn't ever want to talk about emotions or touchy-feely things. It's very hard for me to imagine what Dean would say in such situations. But! It's very easy for the Dean in my head to make snarky comebacks. Give me a one-liner, and I could probably come up an adequately Dean-ish reply easily.
On the flip side, the Sam in my head is more willing to be open with his feelings and with pointing out emotional problems or issues that need to be worked out. So that seems to come more easily to me when I'm writing a story from Sam's POV. (I also think that Sam would be the one to notice emotional issues more easily.) The challenge for writing Sam's POV is that I really can't get his humor down. Sam has this really DRY humor that doesn't come innately to me, so it's a challenge for me to get it right, most times.
I guess it all boils down to how I see them. The limitations I have in writing each POV are related to my perceptions of them. If that makes sense.