Then again, omniscience tends to make it harder to win over one's audience, in the fanfic world anyway.
I'm a big fan of omniscient, FWIW, though I think I tend to give a tight POV more wiggle room on writing skill, just because dull omniscient is *really* dull. (Thanks for those links, Micole - very interesting, and yes, that's exactly what I find dull about boring omniscient or distant third. There's no life. Whereas with a tight POV, it's pretty rare that the story's completely lifeless.)
I tie that to my fondness for first person narratives that have a voice that's not only strong but obviously fixed in time - stories where you know the narrator is telling the story, and shading it themselves, and not necessarily telling you everything. (Of course, that kind of thing does run the risk of getting me to a point where I want to smack the author for getting cute.)
I think the example offered way up above...
"Blair raised his incredibly beautiful azure eyes to Jim's adoring face."
would be appropriate in a 3rd-camera-eye viewpoint -- where the plot follows Blair's actions, but we don't get interiorization.
a 3rd-camera-eye viewpoint
Aha. This is what comes of not knowing the terms. I think I'd thought third limited encompassed 3rd-camera-eye.
Thank you.
So, yeah. Gloss strikes again.
Gen. Post S4. Gunn and Cordelia. Damn.
Gloss blows me away.
Eeeh! Louise Lux wrote Crowley mpreg on a dare.
And I must say it's rather insanely charming.
Oh, my god, that's so cute and sweet, in defiance of all the rules of the universe!
Oh, wow. That's just... lovely, in a weird way. I mean, I'm a bit of a sucker for a good mpreg anyway, but... so well written. And oddly plausible. And Arziphale is so *nice* about it. Charming. That's a good word. And sweet, in a slithery Crowley way. Thanks for linking, shrift!
I've just read a story with the word "bollucks" in it...I used to be be her beta...I corrected that about forty times. argh.
(Picturing filk "Damn, I wish you were my beta"
It also has Spike calling himself "buggering selfish"
and refers to "adolescent mellow drama" which I think is "Everwood" or something, not the "melodrama" she was looking for.
Spike calling himself "buggering selfish"
Why? Is he insisting on being top or something? (I can't believe I just typed that.)
While exploring the shiny new (to me) world of SG1 fandom, I found this crossover fic that was quite entertaining.
heh...it just didn't sound like she used it right...like there's not really a "buggering hell", right?
