we're one, but we're not the same

[musesfool]

I had two goals for this weekend (1. finish my spn_summergen story and 2. catch up with Mad Men in time for the s2 premiere) and I achieved neither of them. Sigh.

However, my spn_summergen story is well on its way to being done now. I had a huge crisis about how to get what needs to happen to actually happen, but I flailed at luzdeestrellas and angelgazing and figured out how to make a virtue of

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[musesfool]

I like not knowing what's going on in the other person's head. It reads truer to me, and it's more interesting to read and more challenging to write.

*nod nod*

you have to show that Tony is totally oblivious to all the things she's thinking, but the *reader* has to be aware of those things, except you have to stay in Tony's head

This especially. I mean, it's easy to show two people care about each other when you're getting both POVs, but to show it by one person's actions/words only, and to show the POV character totally misinterpreting things while the reader gets what's going on - yeah, that I find both interesting and challenging.

My other small pet peeve is when authors write the same scene (or the same story) from multiple POVs but don't bother to add anything new.

Yeah, that to me is only interesting if there really is something entirely different going on. Otoh, I once wrote a story that was eight points of view on one event, and what it meant to each of the characters and how it was viewed differently by all of them. That was an interesting exercise, not only to come up with that many disparate POVs, but also to distinguish between each character's voice.