Interesting Puzzles of Writing as a Character
Something I've always enjoyed is writing fiction as someone else. It is, in popular term, fictionception. (Writingception? Somethingception. Look, all I know is BRAAAWWWMMMMMM) I like getting into the head of a character enough to figure out how they would write something. This is why I am SO INSUFFERABLE in RP when people go looking for written details about my character. Oh, you're searching her computer? Let me recreate an entire chat history. Let me write a bunch of journal entries. Let me determine what sort of notes and bric-a-brac she might store, how she would organize her files, and what she would name them (and what program, and thus file extension, would she use?).
It's an exceedingly detail-oriented way of writing, but I love to do it. It feels like a beautiful mix of two things I love most: creative stuff, and puzzles. So I have to admit that since I've started this twitter account of Twilight Sparkle: Equestria's worstbest fanfic writer, I've gotten SUPER INTO IT. I've spent time determining what her typing quirks are, what emoticons she might use. I already have experience for what her terrible fic is like, since I've written flavor text from our card game (which is basically about Twilight Sparkle, Equestria's worstbest fanfic writer and the terrible fic she creates), but it's fun to figure out how that style translates to interpersonal (interponsonal? Shoot me) interaction.
So now, as Equestria Daily announces that September is National Pony Writing Month, I've decided to write an entire 50k word fic as Twilight. Weird? Yes. Terrible? Probably. But one thing that has always stopped me from doing NaNoWriMo is utter perfectionism, so having the ability to cut loose and just do something intentionally awful will hopefully help.
Anyway, if you're curious, here's her Twitter account and also her Tumblr, which is where I'll be dropping chapters. It's so dumb and yet so great. I'm gonna have a fun month.