TV show review: Painkiller Jane

[game_byrd]

Painkiller Jane was a show from 2007 about people with abilities (called "neuros") being hunted by a semi-autonomous government group. The main character was Jane, who had the ability to heal, though not as spectacularly as Claire Bennet. Painkiller Jane lasted one season and was not renewed. I lasted about fifteen minutes, then lost interest for

Comments

[asmodesgold]

Hmm. Do you have any advice on making voices of characters different?

[game_byrd]

Short, hard to follow advice: Get inside your character's head, or get them inside your head, until you can think in that character's voice. If your characterization is down solid and you know the character inside and out, then you'll write in their voice. For every character in the story, you do this

[game_byrd]

The same applies to writing, by the way. Whatever you read, you'll tend to copy that style in your writing. Sometimes I intentionally copy other fanfic authors.

Frenemies (http://game-byrd.livejournal.com/tag/frenemies#post-game_byrd-16500) - I wrote to copy Lornrocks.

Slave Verse (http://game-byrd.livejournal.com/3788.html) - I wrote to copy trekker.

Wall Verse Shorts (http://game-byrd.livejournal.com/83923.html) - I'm deliberately trying to copy means2bhuman's characterization of Sylar, including writing style when writing from Sylar's POV.

I'm Not Worthy (http://game-byrd.livejournal.com/69661.html) - copying thewatchmaker's Gabriel Gray from an RP. Note this is not thewatchmaker's Sylar. They're very different characters.