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nos4a2no9 has gone and done recorded
Edge of Snow as a fantastic
podfic. Her voice is perfect for reading Fraser 1st person, and for that I am so grateful, because Fraser is a tough nut to crack and it's not an easy story. Be sure to
visit her LJ and give her fb because we just don't have enough people willing to record podfics. It's a long and
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I always love reading about people's writing processes. We're similar in some ways, different in others (like, DUH :-) and sometimes I forget that there are other ways to write.
Also, you don't have to write from multiple POVs for a novel. I finished my first (fanfiction) novel in November, and it's all from a single POV. (For exactly the reasons you articulated: it's more interesting for the reader to have to speculate on the non-POV character's motivations, and it's fun to create the view of what that character thinks through the possibly unreliable narration of the POV character. And in my story, where the POV character is sort-of-original - Rae Kowalski, an always-female version of Ray - it helped to build reader identification.)
And hee, I do personal, unstated challenges all the time.
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I would love to hear about your process, isicolo.
Also, you don't have to write from multiple POVs for a novel. I finished my first (fanfiction) novel in November, and it's all from a single POV.
Wow. Congrats on that. I admire you tremendously; I've never been able to wrap my head around a novel. I guess I just assumed people would get tired of one POV for an entire novel. Stupid assumption on my part, I take it.
Actually, knowing that, I might be willing to give a novel a try. The POV switching thing bothers me. Even when I'm reading, I always feel slightly deflated to all of a sudden be in the other character's head. Takes away a lot of the tension. Not that I haven't read superb stories that do switch...but I guess it's just a personal preference.
the POV character is sort-of-original - Rae Kowalski, an always-female version of Ray
What an original idea. Is it het?
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And you can call me Isis - isiscolo is my username, because Isis is always taken by the time I get there. :-) I natter on a lot about writing and process; you can see my 'writing' lj tag. You might be particularly interested in this post on plot and how I write long, plotty stories.
And hee, way to deflate my writerly ego, there; the Rae story just got recced on crack_van so I was feeling pretty proud of myself, and here comes a reality check that not everybody knows me or what I've written! Anyway, it's a bodyswap story which combines elements of both het and slash: Rae wakes up in an alternate reality in which she is, and apparently always has been, a man named Ray. You might find my story notes interesting ( ... )
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Staying strictly in her POV helped me build reader identification with her (because it's risky, creating a character who is not strictly a canon character, and trying to convince the reader to care about her)
Good point, and smart thinking. It's very difficult to write a story entirely from an original character's POV, and especially difficult for a story of that length. That's quite an achievement, and it looks like your readers really loved it.
You write in your story notes: I mean, it's a (typically female) slasher's dream, isn't it? To wake up in a male body - and not just any male body, but the body of one of our slash objects.It's an interesting question. I don't think it's ( ... )
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(I kind of consider the story partly a metacomment on the phenomenon of women writing m/m sex, which I still find fascinating as a sort of social/psychological expression even though I've been doing it for five years. I don't mean to suggest that we have a solid bloc rationale!)
And really, Rae isn't completely an original character: she is my conception of who Ray would have been had he been born female, but of course my ( ... )
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I get it. What a neat concept. You'd sorta have to remember *how* you write in order to write what Rae is thinking as newly male. It would be much easier to write a newly female Ray--you definitely took the hard road. ;)
Writing regular slash for me is a combination of translation, and projection. When I can get my boyfriends to talk I make them give me fodder. But mostly I think it's what I wish guys would feel--and I'm sure it's wrong 99% of the time, but it works for me.
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