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shadowkatWell, I set up an interview with another staffing company for
Thursday. So my week is just about complete. Hesistant to call more. Have two staffing companies at the moment. And two I've sent resumes too. Maybe I'll call two more next week? (Should
confess and state how much I despise interviewing with staffing companies...all promise, no deliverance, and they have a nasty habit of blaming the applicant for that.) Feeling edgy at the moment, afraid to hope, afraid not to. Trying to figure out what else I should do to prepare for this interview tomorrow. I need to go in with attitude. Apparently that's how Marsters got the job as Spike - he went in with the view it was his role. Attitude! It's all about attitude! (Except she thinks, I did go in with attitude on other jobs and still didn't get hired...)
Some tid-bits on Moonlight Rising Con have shown up on whedonesque. These support my gut reactions to GiTR which was that JM was doing GiTR for pretty much the same reasons we write fanfic. It's his hobby. He has no delusions that he can *really* sing or have a career as a musician. He states clearly at the con that after two years of voice lessons he still can't cut it and he can barely play guitare. He doesn't feel the same level of confidence singing in a band that he does performing as an actor. I got that watching him on stage.
Also? Apparently he's gotten funding to film Macbeth, and may do a Spike TV movie in the near future.
Feeling a little leery of the S6 ATS fanfic initiatives out there - particularly regarding the character of Spike. I admit, Spike is tough. I haven't tried to write the character since my Fanged Four outing. Not sure I trust myself to write for either Spike or Angel. You have to make sure you keep up the duality - self-loathing/bravada/swagger/poet. And you have to be careful not to make him a "bad" poet, Spike doesn't consider himself a bad poet necessarily and no one is necessarily bad. Don't let your own issues get in the way of character. If you want a *really* good fanfic character sketch on Spike - try the "Lydia's Thesis" that a group of academic writers wrote a year ago. Another writer who has done a good job with showing the duality of good and bad in William is Peasant and herselfnyc - on the Buggered website. (Yes, there's lots of NC-17 content, but if you check out AllAboutSpike.com you can find stuff that isn't. Lydia's Thesis has no NC-17 content that I am aware of.) In their fics - there's that obsessiveness in his character - Spike obsesses over things. He isn't a planner. He goes with his gut. Emotion, raw. He is impulsive. That's why he can't be the leader - he doesn't strategize, he just does. Unlike Angel, Spike likes people, likes to be around them socializing. He has no problems with women - Spike isn't William who couldn't get a girl. This guy gets girl's just by winking at them. Unlike Angel, Spike loves food, is a sensationalist. HE enjoys feeling things. He likes to let it all hang out. He will and does put his foot in his mouth. And he likes women with power.
The danger many people make is thinking Spike was like Andrew or Warren as William. Do not make the mistake of drawing too close a line between other characters. Also don't write for a character that you are biased against, the reader will sense it. Ugh. Enuf of this crap, I got work to do. I'm sure no one cares what I think about all of this. Besides I said I was moving away from it...Damn! All edgy regarding other things going on this week. Damn - I wish someone would just hire me already, being at home hunting work and worrying about it is driving me crazy!
Okay off to hunt more stuff on Liberty Mutual and check job want ads...much fun.
Thursday. So my week is just about complete. Hesistant to call more. Have two staffing companies at the moment. And two I've sent resumes too. Maybe I'll call two more next week? (Should
confess and state how much I despise interviewing with staffing companies...all promise, no deliverance, and they have a nasty habit of blaming the applicant for that.) Feeling edgy at the moment, afraid to hope, afraid not to. Trying to figure out what else I should do to prepare for this interview tomorrow. I need to go in with attitude. Apparently that's how Marsters got the job as Spike - he went in with the view it was his role. Attitude! It's all about attitude! (Except she thinks, I did go in with attitude on other jobs and still didn't get hired...)
Some tid-bits on Moonlight Rising Con have shown up on whedonesque. These support my gut reactions to GiTR which was that JM was doing GiTR for pretty much the same reasons we write fanfic. It's his hobby. He has no delusions that he can *really* sing or have a career as a musician. He states clearly at the con that after two years of voice lessons he still can't cut it and he can barely play guitare. He doesn't feel the same level of confidence singing in a band that he does performing as an actor. I got that watching him on stage.
Also? Apparently he's gotten funding to film Macbeth, and may do a Spike TV movie in the near future.
Feeling a little leery of the S6 ATS fanfic initiatives out there - particularly regarding the character of Spike. I admit, Spike is tough. I haven't tried to write the character since my Fanged Four outing. Not sure I trust myself to write for either Spike or Angel. You have to make sure you keep up the duality - self-loathing/bravada/swagger/poet. And you have to be careful not to make him a "bad" poet, Spike doesn't consider himself a bad poet necessarily and no one is necessarily bad. Don't let your own issues get in the way of character. If you want a *really* good fanfic character sketch on Spike - try the "Lydia's Thesis" that a group of academic writers wrote a year ago. Another writer who has done a good job with showing the duality of good and bad in William is Peasant and herselfnyc - on the Buggered website. (Yes, there's lots of NC-17 content, but if you check out AllAboutSpike.com you can find stuff that isn't. Lydia's Thesis has no NC-17 content that I am aware of.) In their fics - there's that obsessiveness in his character - Spike obsesses over things. He isn't a planner. He goes with his gut. Emotion, raw. He is impulsive. That's why he can't be the leader - he doesn't strategize, he just does. Unlike Angel, Spike likes people, likes to be around them socializing. He has no problems with women - Spike isn't William who couldn't get a girl. This guy gets girl's just by winking at them. Unlike Angel, Spike loves food, is a sensationalist. HE enjoys feeling things. He likes to let it all hang out. He will and does put his foot in his mouth. And he likes women with power.
The danger many people make is thinking Spike was like Andrew or Warren as William. Do not make the mistake of drawing too close a line between other characters. Also don't write for a character that you are biased against, the reader will sense it. Ugh. Enuf of this crap, I got work to do. I'm sure no one cares what I think about all of this. Besides I said I was moving away from it...Damn! All edgy regarding other things going on this week. Damn - I wish someone would just hire me already, being at home hunting work and worrying about it is driving me crazy!
Okay off to hunt more stuff on Liberty Mutual and check job want ads...much fun.
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Don't mind at all...
Date: 2004-06-07 01:55 pm (UTC)Actually there are three characters that are really tough for people to pull off well in fanfic - Spike, Angel and Buffy. Why? People get emotionally invested or have strong feelings about them. Half-way through most Spike-centric fic, which features Angel, Angel turns into a jerk. Halfway through most Angel centric fic, which features Spike - Spike turns into a jerk, or ends up getting lost.
Actually - I liked OnM's brief sketch on Spike and his allusion to
a Illyria/Spike relationship which wasn't necessarily sexual but could explore Spike's obsessive tendencies and his odd fascination with women of power. (A mirror if you will of Wes, who was the opposite, Wes became obsessed with women who were damsels or pure in his head at least. Spike becomes obsessed with women are strong.
Or rather that he perceives as strong.)The only mistake OnM made in that sketch was the idea Spike would call for help from Buffy. Dlgood was correct - he'd never do that. (It's established why in Girl In Question.) Also Spike would *never* hit on Nina - she isn't his type.
He seems to look at Nina the seem way Angel looked at Anne or at Harmony. Be careful of having Spike or Angel hit on women in the story.
What I keep looking for in Spike fic is:
1. How he dealt with the soul - and what informs the current character. Spike and Angel almost seem to be mirror reflections of the men they once were. William (insecure with women)/Spike (completely secure), Liam (secure with women)/Angel (nervous around them) (ie. How we handle identity and shifts in our own identity over time - we were once this, but now we something completely different from it, yet also similar.)
2. His relationship with Angel - what relationship have these two built over the years? What are the dynamics of it? How do they relate?
One of the reasons I wanted a S6 was to see how ME would pursue that dynamic. They strike me as brothers in arms more than father/son. But that's just me.
Just some suggestions. Take it or leave it.
Re: Don't mind at all...
Date: 2004-06-07 01:57 pm (UTC)And now I'm going to post this, too.
Re: Don't mind at all...
Date: 2004-06-07 02:28 pm (UTC)Re: Don't mind at all...
Date: 2004-06-08 02:16 pm (UTC)Fathers and Angels
Date: 2004-06-08 05:46 pm (UTC)Now to the 2 vampires. Neither would follow the directions of a father. All you have to do is look at how Angelus reacted to The Master. Angel may have been Spikes "Dad" but their relationship looked more like that of siblings, very competative siblings. Both wanted Buffy but if they are in proximity to each other, the girl in question is forgotten in favor of the contest between the 2 brothers.
Rufus