We also did a lot of the dialogue aloud; I'm pretty sure that if I tried, I could still do the Doc voice, accent, cough, and all (the evil, insidious part was stopping the Doc voice).
Hee! I'm always to hideously embarrassed to try to do this sort of thing myself, but boy do the voices get inside my head! Sometimes it's hard to stop thinking like the characters.
Several chapters later on, Wyatt was finally going to get clued in to Doc's consumption (after he keels over and coughs up blood very melodramatically), and it was going to be massively angsty and tragic, and Wyatt was going to panic and run off to get married to Maddie Earp. Whereupon Doc would follow him to Tombstone because Doc kind of stalked him.
I wondered how you would have handled that, if you kept going. *incorporates this into my mental canon* *g* Wyatt pretty much just asks to have things to angst over. In some ways, Doc is much more at peace with the world.
Also, there may, in retrospect be a little bit of self-insertion in the falling-in-love-with-my-best-friend part, because this fic is essentially how seanchai and I met
I think of it more as writing what you know than self-insertion. *g* I think falling-in-love-with-one's-best-friend romances are the best kind. Not that I haven't read and loved antagonist romances, but the best friend romances have such a wonderful sense of depth and stability; there's more there than passion.
Doc's speech about how Wyatt makes it easier to breathe was our moment of pure Victorian melodrama. It was awesomely fun to write.
One of these days I will overcome my author's shame/pride and write a fic with all the melodramatic that they always have in my head before my fingers magically edit them. *g* Other people seem to have just as much fun with it as I do, so I don't know why I feel so much like it wouldn't be good writing to indulge.
I think [Steve and Tony] pretty much own our souls now, so no worries ^_^.
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Hee! I'm always to hideously embarrassed to try to do this sort of thing myself, but boy do the voices get inside my head! Sometimes it's hard to stop thinking like the characters.
Several chapters later on, Wyatt was finally going to get clued in to Doc's consumption (after he keels over and coughs up blood very melodramatically), and it was going to be massively angsty and tragic, and Wyatt was going to panic and run off to get married to Maddie Earp. Whereupon Doc would follow him to Tombstone because Doc kind of stalked him.
I wondered how you would have handled that, if you kept going. *incorporates this into my mental canon* *g* Wyatt pretty much just asks to have things to angst over. In some ways, Doc is much more at peace with the world.
Also, there may, in retrospect be a little bit of self-insertion in the falling-in-love-with-my-best-friend part, because this fic is essentially how seanchai and I met
I think of it more as writing what you know than self-insertion. *g* I think falling-in-love-with-one's-best-friend romances are the best kind. Not that I haven't read and loved antagonist romances, but the best friend romances have such a wonderful sense of depth and stability; there's more there than passion.
Doc's speech about how Wyatt makes it easier to breathe was our moment of pure Victorian melodrama. It was awesomely fun to write.
One of these days I will overcome my author's shame/pride and write a fic with all the melodramatic that they always have in my head before my fingers magically edit them. *g* Other people seem to have just as much fun with it as I do, so I don't know why I feel so much like it wouldn't be good writing to indulge.
I think [Steve and Tony] pretty much own our souls now, so no worries ^_^.
Oh, good. *grins*