Phoey...

[willow_25]

If that's even how you spell it.

Writing continues to be frustrating and slow, and I've lost my Willow voice again, which happens to me a lot.  Most annoying, as I need her so much for FAA.  I have no idea what it is that makes Willow so hard for me to write, but I have to give massive credit to the show's writers.  They do about a million times better job than I can with Willow-voice.  Of course, they got paid for a reason.

I watched the same 5 minute segment of NFA many, many times on Sunday, got all excited about what I was working on, and then realized that some scenes I had planned are just not possible, based on the handy timeline I generated.  Phoey again.  Double phoey, even.

Well, back to office-related work.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Timelines stink ... they've run me into trouble, too.

I've had some success with imagining the characters voices while reading the lines, but I'm told that doesn't work for everyone; maybe it's a left brain/right brain thing.

[willow-25.livejournal.com]

That's usually the first thing I try. Also, re-watching an episode centered on the character (Dopplegangland for willow, etc.)

It's just that I have an especially hard time writing Willow, even after I do all that. I have some strange Willow-block. Mostly, Willow just ends up sounding like me trying to be girly.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we all have characters that we have particular trouble with ... Willow for you, Buffy for me ... and I have trouble with Andrew's voice, too. I don't know how I'd do trying to write Faith -- when she's in a story I just sit back and let her go.