I Named My Muse: Fickle Dreamer
So, I've been working on my world like a madwoman, as well as, the characters. I've also been paying a lot of attention to the media I've been taking in and dissecting it brutally. (Which has been driving my husband batty. XD) Everything I've been reading or watching lately. (And far more than usual.) I've been paying attention to what I like and
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Ah, well, it's just recognizing that I do it more than any special ability to do so. When I sit and watch something or read a book or even a fanfic by someone else, I am entering someone else's story. I do so willingly and consciously, which is possibly the only difference between myself and others. I enjoy the relaxation of riding through someone else's story. Not needing to control or try to figure out where it's got to go from here. And being surprised when events go differently than I predicted or would have written myself. I enjoy characters that have been created by others. I may still have opinions about the characters, their behaviours, and how I think things should have worked out. But I never contemplate my opinions as being anything more than that. They are my own preference and I have stories that I've written for that. I read someone else's works for the wondrous emotional rollercoaster I get to be taken on. The only time I get uppity about my opinions is if I feel that something was horribly out of place. Id est a character behaves a particular way the entire time and then suddenly BAM! for no reason, but the convenience of the author they suddenly change behaviour.
And your english is fine, I just wasn't sure if you were referring to my genre jumping or what.
BTW, what books do you lean towards? I actually read across a bunch of genre, but those are what I've read in the past two weeks. (When the whole dissecting of stories/characters began.)
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An example:
I just recently started a book, which is being praised by many, many people. Well. The author is a newcomer, and the novel I'm reading is one of his first, but still...
I don't like it when some characters go on and on about another character. That is simply Sue-ishness, and (as you can likely already guess) I'm not very fond of that.
Those are things I look for when reading - both other peoples' things, and my own.
The problem being, that when I read my own, I find it considerably (more) difficult to filter out the no-noes of writing. =P
I'm glad my English is comprehensible to you, hehe. Should anything be confusing, I'm always willing to explain. I often confuse certain words. *blushes*
And what do I read?
Well. I read lots of fictional cross-genres. I'm personally not really into high fantasy, though.
Um... Well. I'd say I like dark-fantasy a lot, but if I use that term, most people would think about vampires, and I have only read one vamp-novel, and it ... sucked.
It was by Christine Feehan. When I say "dark-fantasy" I usually mean novels where people die violent deaths, for instance.
I like "realistic" fiction, where it's easy to imagine being part of 'that world'.
Meh. I'm beating around the bush, again.
All in all, I have noticed that there is no or little magic in the novels I call my favorite.
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