by Digitalyzed Thu May 03, 2012 6:02 pmReaperfan wrote:Rynn wrote:I find it easy to write from the Mane 6's perspective.
Maybe you do, but it's tough for most people to write whole stories from an established character's perspective without doing something that someone will call out as "breaking character." Even back in those things Digi was posting earlier I found it hard to take some of them seriously, despite how well and beautifully they were written because of things like Spike being a grown and aged dragon despite not having fallen to his hoarding instincts or even on the "Pinkie breaking the fourth wall ones" I found it hard to mentally read her lines in her voice because they got too solemn for what I percieve her character to be.
Just write what you want to Wade, there's ups and downs to every style of writing so just do the one you think you can pull off most effectively
Reaper knows his stuff about writing. Fitting into the role of an established and "filled out" character can be incredibly difficult and can limit the conversation and mood in a story greatly. Creating a new character, even enother pony, can allow you to change just about anything and write in the style that suits you the most.
I have never written a fanfic of anything myself, and instead I prefer to write my own imaginative pieces, but I presume the fanfic aspect has many limitations that would impose upon the story and it's plot. I wouldn't add fitting into the personality of a developed character to that myself.
