POV challenges
Apr. 7th, 2006 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupI think I'm going to have to scrap what I'm working on for the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
malriv_ficathon, go back, and do it over in Mal voice. I just cannot get into that gorram girl's head.
No, that's a lie: I can, I just have trouble staying there. Just about the most common compliment I get on my fic writing is that my characters are *in* character; I do that, like many writers, by slipping myself into their skins and writing from what I understand their point of view to be. Daniel's easy for me, so are Buffy and sometimes Mal, and there are others I'm decent at to varying degrees.
River? Dabbling my toes in her worldview dredges up echoes of *being* the genius-on-the-fringes in high school, with a complicated overlay of damaged-crazy-psychic. I don't like the way her POV makes me feel, though it does produce jagged fragments of really beautiful prose.
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malriv_ficathon, go back, and do it over in Mal voice. I just cannot get into that gorram girl's head.No, that's a lie: I can, I just have trouble staying there. Just about the most common compliment I get on my fic writing is that my characters are *in* character; I do that, like many writers, by slipping myself into their skins and writing from what I understand their point of view to be. Daniel's easy for me, so are Buffy and sometimes Mal, and there are others I'm decent at to varying degrees.
River? Dabbling my toes in her worldview dredges up echoes of *being* the genius-on-the-fringes in high school, with a complicated overlay of damaged-crazy-psychic. I don't like the way her POV makes me feel, though it does produce jagged fragments of really beautiful prose.
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