The Breakfast Club is on AMC right now. Because finally, a movie that is actually an American Movie Classic. Yeah, baby. Except of course all the cable editing for bad language. Replacing words like "assholes" with "airheads," like John Bender would ever say that. So annoying. Also, Emilio Estevez when he was young and thin and I had a crush on him
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As for how to deal with it? That I am not sure of. Being aware it's happening is probably a good start, so you can at least write it out when it happens.
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I'm sure I'm guilty of too much TELLING and not enough SHOWING
I think we all are. I know for a fact I am. It's easy to do. I'm constantly worried about maintaining the balanced between show and tell. I'm not a flowery-long-detail sorta girl; I like things clean and neat with a punch, but I've found that tending toward brevity makes it much easier to fall into the telling trap.
Do you have any system or process where you try to keep control of that?This is one of those things I compulsively edit for; it's right up there in my editing process with the holy trinity of hacking adverbs, removing the word 'that' and replacing 'to be' verbs ( ... )
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That said, I’ve discovered that I prefer writing 1st person (specifically Damon’s POV), and this can be extremely tricky. I mean, we’ve all seen stuff like “I was still asleep when he walked in; he came to stand by the bed, watching me.” Really, now. lol So what I try to do is actually become my narrator for the fic’s duration (totally fun and also mildly disturbing with Damon :D), and I’d write only what I would be able to see, feel, know myself. This helps me with a lot of writing issues, including show vs tell. Not always, of course; when I go back to my old fics I usually find a line or two that make me cringe, but what can you do.
Also, purposely vague is good, I like vague. You get so many different readings, which is nice.
(On a completely unrelated note, The Walking Dead is so good, seriously, so FREAKING GOOD! I’ve just finished watching 3x13 and the last vestiges ( ... )
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I actually loathe 1st person--generally to read and I never write it if I can help it. But I have found a few authors in TVD fandom that do Damon 1st person bloody brilliantly, and that's awe-inspiring to me. But I see what you're saying about it helping with those kind of details.
BTW, who doesn't cringe when they go back and read old stuff? I've been known to edit FOREVER ;-)
And yay for TWD! I told you, it's AMAZE-BALLS. You should make a post of all your thoughts! I would love to discuss it in-depth with you!
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I used to dislike 1st person too, until I started writing Damon. It just felt right somehow. I suppose I just enjoy being in his head.
Ooh, that's a great idea, if I can just get my thoughts together. Which sadly seems unlikely at this point. I keep trying to write stuff (stuff Lori. Things.), and somehow it always ends up being Klaus/Rebekah ickiness? Also, I'm still reeling over the fact that I've turned into a Daryl shaped vortex of feelings and wants overnight. WTF is wrong with me. lol
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