And that's going to be a really useful bucket after that. Just not thinking ahead, and I will not be lining the cage with newspapers, missy.
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Elena - Mar 03, 2003 7:25:49 pm PST #2051 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
deborah grabien - Mar 03, 2003 7:37:52 pm PST #2052 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hey, girly, you're the one who gets to mop the floor. Not me.
Elena - Mar 03, 2003 7:42:42 pm PST #2053 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
I'm not sure you understand just how this relationship works.
deborah grabien - Mar 03, 2003 7:45:14 pm PST #2054 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Elena, sweetie - you do realise you're talking to a 5-9 leather-clad Valkyrie dom bitch type, right? A redhead, no less?
I mean, when I decide to shoot the slop bucket, that sucker gets shot.
Elena - Mar 03, 2003 7:48:29 pm PST #2055 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
But I have a throat-slit-scruffy-bitter-ex-Watcher on my team.
askye - Mar 03, 2003 7:49:59 pm PST #2056 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
My money's on Elena.
Elena - Mar 03, 2003 7:53:55 pm PST #2057 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
My money's on Elena.
You may tuck it into my waistband.
deborah grabien - Mar 03, 2003 8:03:10 pm PST #2058 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
What, because of Wesley?
Nonsense. I'll just tie Fred up and give her to Wes to play with for awhile.
Either he'll be too busy/distracted to be much help, or else we'll be too distracted watching him and Fred to worry about the damned bucket.
P.M. Marc - Mar 03, 2003 8:51:14 pm PST #2059 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh.
Body Shots got rec'd.
(*blinks*)
It seems I pulled off something unusual in having Fred sound Texan.
Hmm.
In-laws: more uses than expected.
Anne W. - Mar 04, 2003 9:17:07 am PST #2060 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I'm posting here rather than in Great Write Way, as this question applies to a fanfic in process rather than my original fiction.
I'm working on a long story that has several characters dealing with their pasts. In some cases this past reaches into a quite distant, nearly mythic time. In every case, something from the past is having a tremendous impact on each character's present life. The problem I'm having is how to present the past material to the reader in a way that heightens tension rather than stopping the narrative dead in its tracks. I also need to get across the point that much of what the characters know or remember about this past has been somewhat corrupted over time.
I have several options in mind for how to get this information across to the reader:
- Straightforward flashbacks in the third-person limited p.o.v. I've been using throughout.
- First person narration of the past incident by one of the characters, without interruption.
- First person narration as above, but with interjections from other characters.
- Folktale style narration that presents the "official" view of the past, but with written annotations by the different characters pointing out errors and inconsistencies.
- Folktale style narration followed by spoken debate about how the official version doesn't match up with reality.
Suggestions? Caveats? Advice?