Mememememe

[adiva_calandia]

My Interp. & Argument teacher kept using the word "meaning" in class the other day, and I kept mishearing it as "meme," because "meme" would've worked almost as well in context.

Of course, the chances that any other people in my Interp. & Argument class know the actual definition of "meme" are slim. Not non-existent! I can think of a couple people who might be computer/sociologically geeky enough to know. But not many.

Now I am struck by a desire to find every excuse I can to use "meme" in sentences. There's gotta be a dramaturgical application for it -- there's a dramaturgical application for practically anything, if you look hard enough.


Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/thread/chapter/post/paragraph/tag/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

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[ashen_key]

Guinevere

[adiva_calandia]

a. Well, what initially prompted me to write Guin at all was Rym asking me if I'd be up to it. *grin* So what I really liked was the challenge of writing her. Arthurian legend . . . to say that it's not my strong suit would be like saying that rain is kinda damp. But I knew enough, and found out enough, to fake it like a mofo. And any discrepancies, I could pass off as being a DiR thing. *cheerful*

As I kept playing her, though, I discovered that I really loved her pride and her intensity. She is very sure of herself, is our Guin, and although she may do things carefully, she doesn't do them by halves. There were two men in her life that she loved with her whole self, and two that she loved almost as much. And then there were the ones that she really thoroughly disliked. *grin*

b. Courage in the face of the unknown.

c. Pride.

d. Oh, Lord, she was hard to write. I was always afraid of screwing up and revealing my lack of knowledge of the background.

e. Wales. Also known as the Plot Outside Time, since we got it all done in a single evening. *grin*

f. No plans to keep writing Guin. Her story's done.