Comments | faeriemaiden: i am a writer, a writer of fictions; i am the heart that you call home

faeriemaiden

i am a writer, a writer of fictions; i am the heart that you call home

Nov 09, 2009 11:38

Good heavens, if I could choose anyone in the world to be able to write just like, I'd choose Eva Ibbotson. My poor historical novel looks so weak and unencompassing in comparison: hardly to mention sparsely charactered. Of course, she lived through much of the history about which she tends to write in such glorious detail -- well, the Second World ( Read more... )

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tempestsarekind November 9 2009, 17:58:59 UTC

The problem with Me and Research is that I can't hold a properly solid picture of anything in my head

Oh goodness, I'm the same way. I really, really don't think in three dimensions. What I try to do, therefore, is to get lots of pictures I can use to write from. Postcards, paintings, photographs and drawings I've photocopied out of books... And I write from, or about, those until I have a decent (enough) sense of what the place I'm writing about is like.

Also: maps. I know there are books of walking tours of medieval London or "Shakespeare's London"; perhaps there's something similar for Edwardian London? Maps that are actually from the period should help, too.

aohdwyn November 9 2009, 22:02:49 UTC

Hoo boy, do I feel you. My cast of characters is just getting bigger and bigger and I feel this need to make all of them 3-dimensional, but that just takes up a lot of SPACE in your head, you know ( ... )

lady_moriel November 12 2009, 06:47:20 UTC

I can't memorise the layout of London and know where streets are and which parts of town are Shady and exactly what things are on those streets and... Is there some way to make oneself do this? Exercises? Magical writing potions?

For a minute I was smug because my city isn't real, it's basically one big (hopefully semi-cohesive) amalgamation of every city I've ever visited and I can make everything up...and then I remembered that I have to make everything up. D:

magpie49 November 16 2009, 15:05:05 UTC

Eyeteeth, they are also called canines. If you gave them up, you would likely miss them. A dental specialist (orthodontist) once called them "The four pillars of the mouth."

Oh, Hi!
I'm a somewhat random visitor, here from aamcnamara which I got to from jennygadget.

aliseadae November 17 2009, 06:17:42 UTC

Oh man. For a second there I got really confused and then I remembered I'd told aamcnamara to post about come_all_ye. I'm faeriemaiden and aamcnamara's friend.

Um. I don't know you either. Hello!