Why am I the one always packing up my stuff?
Wow, so. Yeah.
First things first: I have largely moved my base of operations to tumblr. If any of you are over there, let me know and I will add you. If not, consider yourself lucky because it's a very weird place populated by people younger than The Miami Sound Machine's first big hit and that is just disconcerting.
The other problem with tumblr is that it's such a visual medium that when you post text it seems to get lost in the shuffle of pictures and gifs and I miss being able to feel like I'm heard when I write things. This is especially obvious when I need advice and I really need a lot of advice these days. The kind of advice I used to find on LJ, so. Here I am, hat in hand.
I'm writing again. I'm producing a fair amount of words (over 10k in the last two weeks). I have an overarching plot in mind and I think, provided I stop doing stupid things like reading the amazing work of other writers, that I can see it through to the end. The problem is I need some kind of beta to bounce this off and I can't find someone who is interested. Erin's been a great resource and cheerleader but I'm looking for a reader who will be critical with an eye toward canon and, in particular, an eye toward tone and voice.
Oh, and the canon.
Well.
homestuck.
Anyway, if you're still reading and you're interested, lemme know. Otherwise, general writing question: when you're writing in third person limited, how much of the narrative should be the character's personal tone or voice and how much of it should be you trying to create your own style or voice with the character in it? The story I'm trying to tell will have multiple POVs and I'm struggling with trying to balance giving each character's section its own voice versus creating something entirely my own. If that makes sense.
OK, this is already more than I've written in public to anyone about this in months, so I'm gonna wrap this up now *absconds*
First things first: I have largely moved my base of operations to tumblr. If any of you are over there, let me know and I will add you. If not, consider yourself lucky because it's a very weird place populated by people younger than The Miami Sound Machine's first big hit and that is just disconcerting.
The other problem with tumblr is that it's such a visual medium that when you post text it seems to get lost in the shuffle of pictures and gifs and I miss being able to feel like I'm heard when I write things. This is especially obvious when I need advice and I really need a lot of advice these days. The kind of advice I used to find on LJ, so. Here I am, hat in hand.
I'm writing again. I'm producing a fair amount of words (over 10k in the last two weeks). I have an overarching plot in mind and I think, provided I stop doing stupid things like reading the amazing work of other writers, that I can see it through to the end. The problem is I need some kind of beta to bounce this off and I can't find someone who is interested. Erin's been a great resource and cheerleader but I'm looking for a reader who will be critical with an eye toward canon and, in particular, an eye toward tone and voice.
Oh, and the canon.
Well.
homestuck.
Anyway, if you're still reading and you're interested, lemme know. Otherwise, general writing question: when you're writing in third person limited, how much of the narrative should be the character's personal tone or voice and how much of it should be you trying to create your own style or voice with the character in it? The story I'm trying to tell will have multiple POVs and I'm struggling with trying to balance giving each character's section its own voice versus creating something entirely my own. If that makes sense.
OK, this is already more than I've written in public to anyone about this in months, so I'm gonna wrap this up now *absconds*