Writing Mechanics

[awanderingbard]

I was inspired by donutsweeper's anatomy of a drabble post and it got me thinking.

Name any story I've written or character I've written about and I'll tell you 3 OOC things about it/him/her. What gave me the idea for the story, how it changed from the original, what I took out or couldn't get in, who the character is based on, etc. The mechanics of writing it.

Feel free to ask for a couple and also fee free to post this in your journal so I can ask you stuff too. :-)

Comments

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm curious about Miranda. Also the kids and/or any of the mini!dresden fics, but if that's too broad, just go with Miranda. :)

I want to do this, but I've already posted four times today! *debates*

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Miranda
1. Miranda's name was chosen because of 'The Tempest' ("Oh brave new world that has such people in it") and because the nickname of Mira, is Slavic for 'peace', which I thought she would be Harry's calming element, before she died of course. She was just a name until people liked Family Dynamics so much that I ended up having to come up with more of her to know what the kids might be like.

2. Her original profession was a nurse, until Amalie pointed out that 'Her Kind of Magic' (the first fic I ever wrote, for the first challenge at flashfic) would be a great intro to her. I ended up not going with that idea because if he had helped her out, she wouldn't be a one night stand, which is how I wanted her to be. But the idea of her being a violinist stuck with me, and that's what she ended up with. I haven't been able to work that expressly into a fic yet (though she sort of mentions it in Addicted). I liked the idea of there being that element of 'magic' to what she does that Harry doesn't understand and vice versa for what he does.

3. Originally, she was going to have been killed by a drunk driver and the 'monsters' Fay was afraid of, was from overhearing her grandmother refer to the driver as one. I ended up changing it to go along with that 'history repeating' theme I was going for (Harry's mother was killed by the supernatural) and because I thought it would cause Harry to be more uncertain about his job and more guilty about having inadvertently caused her death.