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,
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You should do what you like to do, write what you want to write.
Yes.
People don't seem to switch narrators in their third person stories all that often any more. Maybe it also has something to do with story length.
I've never tried POV switches. I've also never written anything over 7,000 words. Now I'm curious to see if I can do it. It seems like giving too much away to tell everyone's side of the story, and also as though it would be harder to be subtle. I think I'm too stuck in the limited 3rd POV mindset.
hearing events retold by the equivalent of a Greek chorus isn't the same thing as having your protagonist experience them first-hand, and since this is writing, you don't have to worry about the special effects budget. (But I still find them difficult to write.)
Maybe it's also a question of where your interest lies. In theory, I would love to write an exciting action scene, but even in the things I watch on tv and read, martial arts sequences and explosions are less exciting for me than the subtleties of two characters (or a group of characters) interacting.
showing is better than telling, not to mention more fun for the reader. I mean, what would you rather read, a bald statement that A loved B more than his own life and would do anything for him, or a story about A risking life, sanity, and career in order to help B?...Any time you find yourself explaining something a bit too much, it's going to come across as half justification, half apology, as something imposed on the story from outside.
More good advice. I struggle with this.
The truth was that A had been in love with B forever, and as he looked at B across the table, he kept thinking about all the billion cute things B did and how every one of them made him feel, and about his reactions to all the things that had happened between them during four seasons of episodes and how every one of them made him feel, and about all his issues with intimacy and how that made him feel, and about all his past relationships and how those had made him feel, and about all B's past relationships and how those had made him feel, and then he reached for his glass of water.
This just made me laugh! --Imo
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