aria: 0; fraser: 1

[aria]

Two bits of conversation:

aria: I am PANTS at writing fraser
oliviacirce: I bet you are not as pants at it as you think
oliviacirce: but it is sort of a trial by fire, yeah
oliviacirce: I mean, I've never tried, I am too scared to try
aria: well, see, he ... wants to say everything! he is bad at just implying things because he doesn't really pay that much attention to his internal state
aria: so if I make him do so, then he starts paragraphing it
aria: and I am sitting here going "oh my god, you incompetent man! MAYBE I SHOULD LET RAY DRIVE"
aria: it's not that he has a difficult voice, he just has a terrible time saying anything.

oliviacirce: how are you aside from fighting fraser tooth and claw?
oliviacirce: (that is a great image, btw)
oliviacirce: (I am really into it)
oliviacirce: (I am imagining you actually fighting fraser, now.)
aria: (ahaha oh my god you are cracking me the hell up)
aria: (FRASER WINS)

Re: conversational snippet #1: those of you who do write Fraser's POV, how in hell do you do it? It's not a matter of not having his voice; it's a matter of coaxing him into actually telling a story about himself, and then making him do it with subtlety.

Comments

[arrow00]

I thought you did an excellent job in the Fraser POV piece of yours I read. (Sorry, I'm just now starting to read your stuff. I've been Away.)

I don't mind writing Fraser; or, at least I didn't once I got my hook, which was how amazingly unreliable a narrator he often is despite being quite logical-thinking. He's unreliable through the sheer weight of Byzantine thought he puts into things. At least the way I work him. I think. I could be wrong. I very often am. :)

I love Fraser's vocabulary, and find it a challenge to use without making him too dense, formal or unapproachable, which he isn't in canon. He's actually kinda dry and witty, which is harder to impart without tone of voice.

[aria]

Thank you! I find that writing him is still kind of hit-or-miss for me, though; either he is very cooperative (and often unreliable -- you're absolutely right about that, and it's one of the fun things about writing him) or he just becomes entirely vocabulary and completely unwriteable. So I think I pretty much agree with you on all counts here. :)