Re: The essential B/W moments for fic writers?

["jin_hayte" <jinhayte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm gonna ignore your questions and tell you what I do when I...want
to feel the Buffy-ness: I simply watch a few episodes around the time
that the fic starts. say, for example, that I'm gonna write a fic that
takes place in 'Earshot', I go back and watch that and the episodes
before and after.

in your case, seeing how it's a post S6 fic, I'd watch from 'Seeing
Red' to 'Same Time, Same Place', unless you want to dig up some
material from earlier in S6, in which case I'd throw in 'Smashed' to
'Gone' as well

that works for me pretty much every time

--- In buffywantswillow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andy Stoffel <see2go4me@y...>
wrote:
> I was hit over the head by a vicious plot bunny last week and
> can't seem to focus on any of my other fics right now. And now,
> 3/4 of the way thru the prologue I'm just not feeling the
> "Buffy-ness" in my writing -- and I want it back (assuming I
> ever had it...). 
>
> Sure, I'm really just setting the scene/background for the rest
> of the fic (a Post Season 6 AU/road trip/crossover) but I still
> want Buffy and Willow to have an actual presence in the fic.
>
> So... I'm thinking of going back to the source material/canon
> for a dose of Buffy and Willow. But, as I sit here watching
> "Welcome to the Hellmouth", I think I could use a little help.
> Season 1 Buffy seems to young/innocent for the fic I'm writing. 
>
> With 144 episodes to choose from it would take me weeks to
> rewatch them all. And "episode picked at random" probably won't
> get me what I want.
>
> So the question before the assembled masses -->
>
> What are the essential (Or at least the top 10) episodes or
> moments that define:
>
> - Buffy's character
> - Willow's character
> - The relationship between Buffy and Willow? The Good parts/The
> Bad Part.
>
>
> Unless that is too broad of a question?
>
> -Andy-
>
> =====
> -
> - http://radio.weblogs.com/0104508/
> -





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