Yeah, speculative fiction is full of snowflakes.
This made me snort Diet Coke up my nose.
I fear that writing in general is full of snowflakes, or flakes for short.
BWAH! Hey, I resemble that remark! *g*
I'll nurse you back to health. I'll wear the nurse outfit!
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The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Barb - Aug 16, 2008 10:58:51 am PDT #686 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
Deena - Aug 16, 2008 10:59:36 am PDT #687 of 6681
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 11:02:31 am PDT #688 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.
My preferred poison is First Person, past tense, but it's such a huge no-no in romance that I'm relearning how to write in Third, which I avoided for years because of all the academic training. My dialogue was great, but the narrative sounded like a damned textbook. Feh. With any luck, I've gotten better at that.
Deena - Aug 16, 2008 11:06:05 am PDT #689 of 6681
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I like first person past tense! I think you're right about the academic poison. My third person dialogue sucks ass.
Ginger - Aug 16, 2008 11:15:13 am PDT #690 of 6681
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
First person in the continuing present drives me nuts.
"I am going to the door. The rats hiss. They are eating me. I am bleeding on this paper."
Burrell - Aug 16, 2008 11:18:19 am PDT #691 of 6681
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I can't figure out how to write in first person present, I mean I can't imagine the context in which it would make narrative sense.
javachik - Aug 16, 2008 11:20:06 am PDT #692 of 6681
Our wings are not tired.
Maybe in a mystery, Burrell? But then I don't read many mysteries so what the hell do I know?
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 11:42:32 am PDT #693 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
It was a fairly common convention in chick lit when the genre was a hot commodity, probably a 50-40-10 split between first person past, first present, and third past.
I very rarely liked any books written in first present, to the point where even if the story sounded good, I rarely bought it. It was just too... I don't know, uncomfortable to read.
sumi - Aug 16, 2008 11:54:29 am PDT #694 of 6681
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, I bet that's a result of Bridget Jones' Diary.
Barb - Aug 16, 2008 11:59:44 am PDT #695 of 6681
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, I bet that's a result of Bridget Jones' Diary.
No doubt, but Helen Fielding actually wielded the POV with skill-- the journal format already gave it a sense of immediacy that the first, preset accented. However, she did mix it up with first, past, which kept the present from becoming overwhelming.
Plus it was a damned funny book.