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Post by Tensleep on Jul 26, 2007 18:29:29 GMT -5
Well, then it wouldn't be a fantasy, now would it? This is some other girl and not the fan fiction version of yourself getting in close with the guys *swoons*
And I think I lost a few more IQ points there...
Seriously, I never think of them, but I don't write a lot of romance. I personally think they're a little too hometown, you know? They have the history and it's so much easier to insert someone new and have these adventures.
But I see your point. It's not like you're marrying the characters. let Sylvia and Dallas date or Steve and Evie smooch. They're living for the moment. It's all the same to me.
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Post by fairlane on Jul 26, 2007 18:30:45 GMT -5
I have wondered the same thing. I have no idea why more people don't use the girls who already exist.
Especially since they are so barely outlined by Pony, you could do pretty much anything you wanted with them.
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Post by zevie on Jul 26, 2007 20:18:28 GMT -5
I think cause their relationships are already defined, it doesn't strike a lot of romance writers as interesting. Somewhere else on this board, someone said that it's hard to keep the interest going after a "happily ever after" situation...not that Sylvia, Kathy and Evie necessarily get that, lol, but they do sort of "have" the guys (strictly colloquially speaking, no ownership implied at all...ugh, the politics of romance).
I've started snippetting a pre-relationship Dally/Sylvia fic, and the thing with that Dallymance is that you know that Sylvia isn't going to change him, and it ends...well...the way it does. No possibility of a happy ending, really, unless you go AU. I don't know why the others don't get a courting-fic - the St/Evie relationship seems like that would be particularly passionate to write, lol, and Two-Bit and Kathy's on-and-off status is plenty interesting to deal with (is that actually cannon or did I absorb that from Middle Ground?).
It actually might worry some writers (er...me) to try and tackle a cannon character as well as a situation. Cause they're cannon, everyone already has an image of them (like, that they're a total beeyatch, in some unfair cases, lol), but because they're not so developed in the book, you still have to create backstory and rounded character traits, and there's plenty of MS pitfalls to navigate around.
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Post by fosterchild on Jul 26, 2007 20:56:10 GMT -5
Ok, in the Steve story I have rattling around my head, Evie is one if the marbles! I need to get to writing, dammit!
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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Jul 27, 2007 12:38:09 GMT -5
Good point. I do use Sandy and Evie in The Outsiders, but since Dally is dead...I could work in Sylvia's kids and maybe Tim's, too.
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