How Fiction Works Writing Meme -- Day Five

Jan 16, 2013 10:14

5 - According to James Wood, the author is always working with three languages: the author's own language of style, perceptual equipment, plot necessities and so on; the character's presumed language and style (for example, a British undertaker may narrate much differently than an elf of the forest); and the language of the world which the author ( Read more... )

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ericadawn16 January 16 2013, 17:38:27 UTC
My main problem with this season of Clone Wars is that aside from Ahsoka, I don't feel like they're having the same wonderful female plotlines like the earlier seasons. It's been more male-oriented.

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ladyhadhafang January 16 2013, 17:46:10 UTC
Yeah. *Sighs* I agree, so very much.

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eglantine_br January 16 2013, 22:52:30 UTC
I had not thought of the three voices-- but yes. Seems right. Sometimes you are lucky and the narration voice is like your own, but even then you are controlling what they saym the order in which they reveal things, and so on.

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ladyhadhafang January 16 2013, 23:01:49 UTC
Exactly! Very well-said. :)

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