First Person? Third Person? How Many People Are In There, Anyway?
My creative life is incredibly strange.
I may yet become the first person to fanfiction myself. I have two books now where The Princess gets abducted. Sargon has, multiple times, requested an account of what happened to the incomparable Velah Argus during her time in the four hands of the dastardly Thoros Thane, and will, once he reads this next bit of book two, no doubt start badgering me about what happens to Velah and Zirel, the Beastmistress, when they are abducted by Jorvash the Terrible (no relation).
As it stands, this may well be the best choice for his Christmas present. Custom porn. Written about my own non-porn characters.
I just have one problem. Both books are written in a strictly third-person limited viewpoint, following Jack, the hero, whose sense of humor and general sanity is all that keeps the story from being completely ridiculous. At no point do I venture into the thoughts of the other characters.
And yet, good ol' Jack is not around to witness the humiliation of the Hot Chicks, and so I can't use his viewpoint for this.
To recount the trials of Velah Argus, I'd have to do it from her point of view. And I don't honestly know if I should do it first-person, which would be so breathlessly melodramatic that I am nauseated just thinking about it. I could do it third-person limited, staying within her thoughts and feelings. Or, most challenging, I could try third-person omniscient, moving from viewpoint to viewpoint, between both the Princess, her captors, and the other captives (Unlucky Prince from Book One, and The Eternal Mouthy Sidekick are present for parts of both episodes, though not all).
All these options have their pros and cons. Chiefly: I am very comfortable working in the first-person for porn, and very comfortable working in third-person limited for non-porn. So I have very little experience writing porn from third-person.
I supppose I will learn, won't I?
Such little dilemmas are the cinnamon sprinkling the eggnog of a rich creative life.
In other news, last night I cracked 46,000 words. Only 4,000 to go! If I bust my ass, I can have it done early. Like, tomorrow, if I quit jerking off. (Thanks, THANKS, eudaimon, I needed that like I needed . . . well, I really needed that, actually, so . . . thanks!)
So, while I go do that (go work, not jerk off) behold the little progress-meter of doom:
46,863 / 50,000
(93.7%)
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I may yet become the first person to fanfiction myself. I have two books now where The Princess gets abducted. Sargon has, multiple times, requested an account of what happened to the incomparable Velah Argus during her time in the four hands of the dastardly Thoros Thane, and will, once he reads this next bit of book two, no doubt start badgering me about what happens to Velah and Zirel, the Beastmistress, when they are abducted by Jorvash the Terrible (no relation).
As it stands, this may well be the best choice for his Christmas present. Custom porn. Written about my own non-porn characters.
I just have one problem. Both books are written in a strictly third-person limited viewpoint, following Jack, the hero, whose sense of humor and general sanity is all that keeps the story from being completely ridiculous. At no point do I venture into the thoughts of the other characters.
And yet, good ol' Jack is not around to witness the humiliation of the Hot Chicks, and so I can't use his viewpoint for this.
To recount the trials of Velah Argus, I'd have to do it from her point of view. And I don't honestly know if I should do it first-person, which would be so breathlessly melodramatic that I am nauseated just thinking about it. I could do it third-person limited, staying within her thoughts and feelings. Or, most challenging, I could try third-person omniscient, moving from viewpoint to viewpoint, between both the Princess, her captors, and the other captives (Unlucky Prince from Book One, and The Eternal Mouthy Sidekick are present for parts of both episodes, though not all).
All these options have their pros and cons. Chiefly: I am very comfortable working in the first-person for porn, and very comfortable working in third-person limited for non-porn. So I have very little experience writing porn from third-person.
I supppose I will learn, won't I?
Such little dilemmas are the cinnamon sprinkling the eggnog of a rich creative life.
In other news, last night I cracked 46,000 words. Only 4,000 to go! If I bust my ass, I can have it done early. Like, tomorrow, if I quit jerking off. (Thanks, THANKS, eudaimon, I needed that like I needed . . . well, I really needed that, actually, so . . . thanks!)
So, while I go do that (go work, not jerk off) behold the little progress-meter of doom:
46,863 / 50,000
(93.7%)
link