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pstogimpbrushes = LOVE. Er, yes, I've been on a downloading spree. How can you tell?

Have finished two drabbles. Requesting still open, you know.

Tuesday-POV at tuesday_skyline. No, really. And I liked being inside her head so much that I have nearly decided to alternate the book (when it actually becomes something vaguely resembling a book) between Ian and Tuesday, although I shall limit POV merely to them, which is UNHEARD OF if you've ever seen any of my other writings. (Which you haven't, unless you're lady_moriel or midenianscholar. Rejoice in that knowledge, as a lot of it is either confusing, dully-written, or impossible to understand until I've given you the ten-page plot summary.) POV limiting is a good thing, though--a very good thing. For one thing, getting inside the villain's head is very difficult to do well. My villains, whoever they may be, will be a lot better characters if I don't have to show what they're thinking.

Also, am considering symbolism, mainly involving T.S. Eliot and Norse mythology (Tiw + Fenrir biting off hand = Tuesday; there's got to be some potential in that). Am also trying to make this poor thing a story, rather than a geekfest and ZOMG BOSTON IS TEH SHINY!, because I really could indulge myself far too much.

Still, symbolism is slightly scary. I've never really had a go at it before, although I adore it (but can't stand most allegory, because the characters and situations generally feel more like pawns trying to get a point across), and I'm worried that I won't be able to pull it off. Still, I don't plan to publish this thing until I've reached the age in which my writing style does not reinvent itself once every three months or so, and I can be assured that while it will still continue to improve, it will not improve so drastically in such a short time that it will render everything I've written before to rubbish, comparatively.

Am rambling and should be Doing Chores, which is Deeply Unpleasant.

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[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I know what you mean about the limited/multi POV quandry. I've been a fan of multiple-POVs for quite a while, which shows up the most in Wormhole--I think I've been inside Kael, Ciyas, Duiraan, Luena, Alera, and both parents, although not all of them have been successful. (Thinking about it right now, I should probably cut everything except the first four, and try to do my characterization of the other Bronos through Kael's POV--difficult, since I don't know any of them as well as I ought.) I think Thieves' Honor was the first time I consciously decided to limit myself to a single third-person POV. I considered using other POVs, but the thing with that is that it's supposed to be Daemin's story. In part that's probably because the original is Oliver's story, so I wanted to be sure it was obvious that this was about someone else; but mostly I decided it would make for a stronger story. I could have opened it up to other POVs--Trin's an obvious choice--but I realized as soon as I did that, I'd want to come in with POVs for Cydan, Arisha, possibly Lystin and some of the Brownlows, maybe even some random police officer...and it was just...no. The story is about Daemin. These other people are all very important, but the second I crawl into their heads, they get their own little part of the story, and that takes some of it away from Daemin. Since he's the one with the most definite and important story arc, it has to stay with him.

Er, yeah. Rambling in your LJ again. >_<

Tiw + Fenrir biting off hand = Tuesday; there's got to be some potential in that

*is intrigued* Sad to say I don't know a lot about Norse mythology, aside from what little I gathered from the manga Ragnarok (almost nothing), this Usbourne book (significantly more, though still not a lot), and the "What Every _th Grader Needs to Know" books. Erm...Fenrir. Well. Okay, the first thing I thought there, I admit, was "Okay, you have superheroes--if we can tolerate another fantastical element, how about werewolves?" But that...well, aside from the likelihood of ripping JKR quite blatantly, I don't know if superheroes and werewolves exactly go together, as fantastical elements go.

Still, I don't plan to publish this thing until I've reached the age in which my writing style does not reinvent itself once every three months or so, and I can be assured that while it will still continue to improve, it will not improve so drastically in such a short time that it will render everything I've written before to rubbish, comparatively.


I guess I haven't quite had that problem: my writing has improved, certainly, and I've experimented deliberately with various styles ("Summit," anyone?), but I don't remember my writing style actually changing much. It's just...well, that's just it: my older stuff wasn't in a different style so much that it was simply bad. Here, let me dig up some choice tidbits for you:

Mom just gave me this diary today. She said she had been planning to give it to me when I turn thirteen next year, but she decided to give it to me now. She said it was because we had moved to Ford Island, on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, from San Diego, California, the February of this year, and I should write down my thoughts about what it’s like to live in Hawaii.

Bad exposition, much?

I have a couple good friends from school already—Emily Wilson and Jackie Yamamoto....Jackie’s Japanese, but I don’t care. She’s nice. Emily’s nice too. There’s only one thing I don’t like about our new home, and that’s Barbara Johnson at school. A lot of kids call her Barb Wire (but not to her face, of course), which explains by itself what she acts like. She teased me today in school because I’m not wearing the “latest fashions” and she is. I’m getting mad just thinking about it.

Guh. 'Course, these are from when I was...oh...well, probably twelve, since that's how old I made my protag. >_< Self-insert, much?