They don't to me, either. Even when they *are*, you know? Even when the writer's got all the voice quirks and everything down, when the whole thing's in first person, it just throws me.
I just recently wrote my first OC as well, and it was a super weird experience. My friend Emily wanted me to write some het for SPN, but neither of us have been real crazy about the gals they've had guest star. So I just made up an OC, which made me fear that probably very few people would read it (which is true LOL). Even though I think the fic has some neat Dean characterization stuff going on it, people see that OC tag and they're not interested. Myself included many times.
Yeah, tenses. I've found that now I generally want to write in present tense, but I enjoy reading present and past equally.
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They don't to me, either. Even when they *are*, you know? Even when the writer's got all the voice quirks and everything down, when the whole thing's in first person, it just throws me.
I just recently wrote my first OC as well, and it was a super weird experience. My friend Emily wanted me to write some het for SPN, but neither of us have been real crazy about the gals they've had guest star. So I just made up an OC, which made me fear that probably very few people would read it (which is true LOL). Even though I think the fic has some neat Dean characterization stuff going on it, people see that OC tag and they're not interested. Myself included many times.
Yeah, tenses. I've found that now I generally want to write in present tense, but I enjoy reading present and past equally.