A Magic Beyond - Karri Justina Shea
Hi, I'm Karri - I write books about magic and adventure for the young and the young at heart. Fanfiction is my practice and my guilty pleasure, and this is where you'll find it.
If you would like to get in touch with me, you can send me an email at karrijustinashea@gmail.com.
Other places you can connect with me:
My Website
FF.net
And I'm also on Pottermore! SwordFeather210 - add me as a friend!
My icon artwork is from the illustration for chapter 20 of my Starship fic Learning to Dance, by the incomparable calculus-was-tough.
Want to know more about Pedro's Army and Learning to Dance? Get the full story of how it all happened here. :)
They're here! Click the cover image to download your free PDF, Kindle or ePub copy of Learning to Dance.
dolphinss Asks:
amagicbeyond Said:
Thank you for the question! :)
That’s really one of the toughest things about fanfiction, isn’t it? But that’s what makes it such great writing practice.
I’m not always spot on. I can pinpoint places where I think I could have characterized better. But I guess what I do is try to analyze every action I make them do against what I know about the character and their history - would they do this? What would cause them to behave this way? Is it believable?
Or you can invert that, if you’re doing backstory like I was with Learning to Dance, and ask yourself what made the characters the way they are - and were they always that way? My fifteen-year-old Taz is very different from Starship Taz, as is my pre-Qo’noS Up. But the events in between are what made them who they are.
I guess my best advice is to know the characters really, really well - or at least get to know them. If you’re going to make Hermione date Snape you had better have some pretty damn convincing in-between stuff to get me to buy it, because, well, that’s just not in character.
I hope this is helpful - this really is one of the toughest things to do, and I don’t claim to have mastered it. :)
-
screamtaco liked this
-
amagicbeyond posted this
