re: Final Exam -- I was initially a little leary of the story myself, since fics with OCs and Zuko are common enough on ff.net to merit a generous application of DDT. The 'no romance' tag in the summary is the only reason I gave it a shot. The prose is also very readable, which helped.
re: Aang -- I think a big reason why I find him hard to write is getting into his head. We see the homeland/life of all the other characters throughout the series, but with Aang all we get are a handful of flashbacks, so it's hard for me to figure out how he'd view things. One of my betas for FMB mentioned she was a little freaked out when Aang narrated that he'd found it odd to eat with Kuzon and his parents, as Air Nomads didn't raise their own children. (Which is... fanon? I think?)
re: your friends page -- That's probably something to do with your friends page filter. Not sure what. I've never dug into LiveJournal's features too deeply.
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Date: 2010-11-12 09:58 pm (UTC)re: Aang -- I think a big reason why I find him hard to write is getting into his head. We see the homeland/life of all the other characters throughout the series, but with Aang all we get are a handful of flashbacks, so it's hard for me to figure out how he'd view things. One of my betas for FMB mentioned she was a little freaked out when Aang narrated that he'd found it odd to eat with Kuzon and his parents, as Air Nomads didn't raise their own children. (Which is... fanon? I think?)
re: your friends page -- That's probably something to do with your friends page filter. Not sure what. I've never dug into LiveJournal's features too deeply.