The "Dark!Fic" Quandry.

[fenderlove]

Writing "dark!fic" can sometimes drive you crazy sometimes, you know? For me, writing certain situations are usually the kind that crave characterization to be spot-on, even more-so than in other types of gen!fic.

I'm trapped in the writing blaagho of doom! To my writer friends, how do you overcome your writer's block in the middle of a darker themed story?

Comments

[lilithbint.livejournal.com]

I prefer to only be really mean to characters I can live without. The few times I've been truly awful to my beloved ones I tend to write through the block even if I delete everything I've written the next day.
Of course even when I'm mean to my beloved ones I seldom break their minds no matter what I do to their bodies (the others are totally fair game)
*hangs head* that's my bias showing I'm afraid.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Feel no shame! :D I think that I need to force myself to just soldier through the rough parts until I find my footing. XD

[rahirah]

I don't think I'm much help. I usually get writer's block during transitional scenes....

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I think I need to learn to trust my own writing, particularly characterization. I get completely halted when I get nervous that I'm not writing Spike correctly. XD

[spikes-evilbint.livejournal.com]

Erm ... speaking as one who writes all manner of dark in all manner of ways, if I get stuck two things work for me. I either revert back to pen and paper - not sure why it works but it always does. The other thing I do is write something else - a drabble, maybe, sometimes in a different genre. x

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Excellent suggestions! I write on pen and paper first, so maybe I could try typing first to see if I could get one of those stream-of-consciousness things going, get my thoughts out faster.