I have noticed over the past few years that the more I write fanfiction for a series, the less fanfiction I read for that series, and in some ways, the less enthusiastic I become about the canon material. I think it's the same reason I sometimes cannot face a work of fiction for several months on end and have to binge on things like the history of biological warfare, or a study of feminism in third world countries: if I pay too much attention to the guts of the beast, I stop being able to admire it in motion.
Hermione is an interesting character for me, because she and I share at least half, maybe as much as three quarters of our character/personality traits, and yet we are so different. It interests me to play around with those differences.
(To be perfectly honest, I sneak a lot of the similarities into my version of her backstory. For example, "Fire," my Hermione monologue, contains scary amounts of my childhood, including the 'homo' story... which my own sister told me was too implausible for her to believe. *shakes head* It's a guilty sort of fun to throw my own history at a character and watch how she reacts differently.)
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Date: 2005-12-08 11:39 am (UTC)Hermione is an interesting character for me, because she and I share at least half, maybe as much as three quarters of our character/personality traits, and yet we are so different. It interests me to play around with those differences.
(To be perfectly honest, I sneak a lot of the similarities into my version of her backstory. For example, "Fire," my Hermione monologue, contains scary amounts of my childhood, including the 'homo' story... which my own sister told me was too implausible for her to believe. *shakes head* It's a guilty sort of fun to throw my own history at a character and watch how she reacts differently.)