writing about writing
I used to have a bunch of essays up on my site on various fannish topics, but I took them down when I redesigned, because I just wasn't sure how I felt about them any more. Most of them were written in the late 90s, and I called them rants at one point, but they really weren't; I don't rant well. I've been thinking about making annotated versions,
( Read more... )
That's when I find showing the story to someone else can be incredibly helpful. Often, what they say is actually something I knew myself deep down but I didn't want to acknowledge because it meant a lot of work. Somehow, though, when someone *else* says, 'you do know the reason this AJ/Lance story doesn't work is because there isn't enough Lance in it, right?' it seems to give me the motivation to fix it.
The last thing I did was, um, I don't even know what to call it, it was from the POV of three people more or less simultaneously. *g*
That's cool. I think there was a period where people got very Thou Shalt Not about pov switching, and now it's relaxing. As you said, people are more open to more experimental writing.
Mind you, when mickeym and I wrote Absinthe Makes..., it switched pov in very short sections, sometimes line by line, because we wrote it as comments. We had to decide at the end whether we were going to try to edit at least each scene into one pov. It was such a horrific proposition that we quickly decided we were just going to keep it pretty much as it was and edit to make it clearer whose pov was which. No one ever complained about the mixed pov, and that was three years ago, now.
This was totally done before the age of the challenge.
I hadn't thought about that, but yes. There are so many more than there used to be. I used to be on a Blakes 7 mailing list, and there was one challenge a year.
and on a personal level, I think I've done some of my best writing for challenges
Oh, me too. Which is another reason I feel silly complaining. Pretty much every story I wrote for SeSa was something I wouldn't have written otherwise, and was really pleased with in the end.
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment