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.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
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.
But I have a throat-slit-scruffy-bitter-ex-Watcher on my team.
My money's on Elena.
My money's on Elena.
You may tuck it into my waistband.
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.
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.
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:
Suggestions? Caveats? Advice?
Folktale style narration followed by spoken debate about how the official version doesn't match up with reality.
I would go for this, because there's more dialogue, which I enjoy writing.
Straightforward flashbacks make it hard to convey the differences between the facts and the way a character sees them; I tend to favour 'with interuptions' because of my writing preferences; I'm not sure how 'written annotations' would work as a device (there are several ways it could go, I guess), but it's a fascinating idea. Hum.
I think I'd go towards
But amore than one of them for each character, each one slightly different.
Do the characters know their version of history has been corrupted?