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rainbow-truffles:

One of the craziest things I’ve realized lately as a fanfiction writer is that there are people who actually specialize in fluff. Like, it’s their specialty.

Give me an angst prompt and I can write about it from six ways to Sunday, but fluff prompts can be excruciating. They take a lot more mental energy. I find there’s a lot of hemming and hawing with fluff prompts. Is this in-character? What’s in-character but lavishly outside the bounds of canon, and what’s just plain over-the-top? Where do I cut the scene? How do I build and keep the tension throughout this scene?

I think it’s really cool that there are people who feel the way about writing fluff the way I feel about writing angst. I love both, but for some reason I assumed everybody had trouble writing fluff. It’s nice. You know, the variety. I can’t write fic above a certain rating and I’ll drive myself crazy trying to fill one fluff prompt, but I can knock out an angsty fic like that, and it’s cute that there are authors who have the opposite problem. (And I’m deliberately polarizing it between fluff, angst, and smut, but there’s plenty of genres in between.)

What’s your specialty? Fluff, angst, none of the above?

Bonus: do you like writing action scenes? (I love writing ‘em. Lots of tension, lots of movement, easy to close the scene, full of unknown variables.)

I think I skew to “somewhat angstful/dark character interactions”, myself.

Action scenes are fine to write, but I don’t find them really involving? (To write, I mean. A good one can be fantastic to read.)