Date: 2007-02-12 12:54 am (UTC)
And RTD is a huge fan, isn't he? I'm sure the similarities aren't coincidental.

Is he? If so, *hee*.

Owen's sarcasm would certainly come more naturally to me than, say, Ianto's dry humour.

I'm actually the opposite. Being mildly snarky but in a very definite look-at-how-clever-I-am way has become pretty second-nature to my writing (or was always there) after West Wing, Sports Night and Jeeves & Wooster.

I like the dry wit, the quick comments, the generally barbless and only gently mocking phrases. Also I like the way that it... it always feels geeky to me, because it tends to be based upon that slightly academic I-know-what-I'm-talking-about attitude.

Whereas Owen, while ridiculously fun, is... there's more of a mean streak there which makes me a touch uncomfortable. There were a couple of lines that I wrote and then needed [livejournal.com profile] 0bake to hold my hand and reassure me that it sounded like Owen. (Instead, of, say, like Annie being remarkably, remarkably bitchy.)

Of course, I'm just not clever enough to write Ianto's dialogue. Which is why I can't wait for you to write more of him!

... *looks shifty*

I have been. Kind of. But in a cheating way.

I started a wip (http://out-there.livejournal.com/862339.html#cutid1), and then instead of posting new paragraphs, I'm going back and editing it to make it longer.

It's still quite rough and I'm stuck without plot (um, yeah, I just wanted to write the damn scene of them having breakfast together) but... *waves hands vaguely* It's probably the most I'll have for a while.
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