Comments | ficfaction: Let's dust off these cobwebs

the_deep_magic in ficfaction

Let's dust off these cobwebs

Oct 12, 2012 00:57

Wow, so this comm has been silent for... almost two years, but hopefully most of you are still out there, somewhere.

Here's my problem: I'm writing a plotty AU fic told entirely from the perspective of character A because one of the themes of the fic is A gradually uncovering the reality of the world he's living in and how character B fits into it ( Read more... )

fic question, discussion, writers question

Comments 5

lousy_science October 12 2012, 16:40:46 UTC

Could B have something like a blog/journal/maps/ any archive material lying around? Or objects that provide clues? Or scars/wounds - medical history, perhaps? Could A guess at, wrongly, what B's been up to and be corrected?

spockalicious October 12 2012, 17:00:54 UTC

This may sound a little old hat but you might like to consider 'object' prompts as plot devices for flashbacks or something ( ... )

therumjournals October 15 2012, 21:07:02 UTC

Ooooh, I really hope this is what I think it is :-D I'm writing a fic right now that has a bunch of flashbacks of the "as he sat down, he thought back on what had led him here" type - okay, that's a fic where I'm not really going for "style points", lol ;-) If it's backstory that can be done through consistent flashback scenes, I think that's okay, but if it would only be like one or 2 "flashbacks" as opposed to interspersed throughout, then maybe not. I was thinking that maybe the best would be different ways of "looking back" - maybe a scene that could be a dream or something, if it's something scary or traumatic, then some "thinking back", then some dialogue, and eventually you get the whole "past story". I actually think the "narrative dump" can be okay, if there's dialogue and/or it's while the character is doing something, so you can intersperse some description/action along with the monologue ( ... )

the_deep_magic October 16 2012, 05:36:33 UTC

Ha ha, I'm reading back over my description, and it SOUNDS like what you think it is, but it's not. Not yet -- that one's next up on my list, though. ;o)

I think you're right -- it either needs to be consistent flashbacks or I'm going to have to work it into my dialogue.

therumjournals October 17 2012, 01:57:27 UTC

Haha, oh well, I had a feeling it was too good to be true ;-) Well good luck with your flashbacks, whatever they may be!!