![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperx* So... absolutely nothing is on TV these days. I ended up on the old 1980s movie "Real Genius" last night. You know, the one where they blow up the house with popcorn.
* Continuing to read "The Help" I had started it on audible but, as frequently happens, if I enjoy an audio I pick up the actual book (my fifteen year-old neice had been reading it last month as part of her summer reading list and she was the one who suggested it). Overall, I've liked the book a great deal. It's a change of pace from the fantasy and the urban fantasy that has constituted the bulk of my reading in the last several months. And the audio book is quite well done, the actresses reading the three POV characters all do a good job. However, having departed from the audio book to the actual book, I do understand far better one of the criticisms of the book, which is the use of dialect. Hearing the story acted is different from reading it, and I agree that the writer used dialect too selectively and too often for the printed word. for every 'a' instead of 'of' I want to shake the author. Yes, I realize that many of this characters will say some version of 'uh' for 'of', but there's no reason to write that phoenetically. It's distracting (and detracting from the experience). Another quibble comes in her use of close POV. There's nothing at all wrong with close POVs but if you're rotating POVS (in a somewhat random way), but there's a chapter mid-way through the book where she doesn't head the chapter with whose we've entered. It's clearly not the POV of the character from the previous chapter. In fact for a very long time it reads as writer omniscient... until somewhere in the middle of it, we have a private thought of one of the POV characters...except I really don't think she was the POV character at the beginning of the chapter because I don't think she was in the room. On the other hand, I'm not sure any of the other POV characters were either. It seems like something that should have been clarified in the editing process. It was a rather disorienting chapter transition. Even at the end of the chapter, I still was not sure whose POV the chapter written in.
* Fanfic proceeds at a snail's pace. I'm stalled in the muddled middle, which always seems to happen. Worse, in my head I refer to this one as my Don Quioxte fic because it pretty much breaks all self-imposed rules of fanfic... because it's the kind of fanfic no one ever reads.
It's Gen
It's first person POV
Worse, it's an OC first person POV!
It's BtVS Season 8
The show characters are little more than back-drop and/or cameos
Spike isn't even in it.
No one is going to read this thing, so why am I writing it?
And yet I do.
At this point, I think I'm determined to finish it simply out of stubborness.
* Continuing to read "The Help" I had started it on audible but, as frequently happens, if I enjoy an audio I pick up the actual book (my fifteen year-old neice had been reading it last month as part of her summer reading list and she was the one who suggested it). Overall, I've liked the book a great deal. It's a change of pace from the fantasy and the urban fantasy that has constituted the bulk of my reading in the last several months. And the audio book is quite well done, the actresses reading the three POV characters all do a good job. However, having departed from the audio book to the actual book, I do understand far better one of the criticisms of the book, which is the use of dialect. Hearing the story acted is different from reading it, and I agree that the writer used dialect too selectively and too often for the printed word. for every 'a' instead of 'of' I want to shake the author. Yes, I realize that many of this characters will say some version of 'uh' for 'of', but there's no reason to write that phoenetically. It's distracting (and detracting from the experience). Another quibble comes in her use of close POV. There's nothing at all wrong with close POVs but if you're rotating POVS (in a somewhat random way), but there's a chapter mid-way through the book where she doesn't head the chapter with whose we've entered. It's clearly not the POV of the character from the previous chapter. In fact for a very long time it reads as writer omniscient... until somewhere in the middle of it, we have a private thought of one of the POV characters...except I really don't think she was the POV character at the beginning of the chapter because I don't think she was in the room. On the other hand, I'm not sure any of the other POV characters were either. It seems like something that should have been clarified in the editing process. It was a rather disorienting chapter transition. Even at the end of the chapter, I still was not sure whose POV the chapter written in.
* Fanfic proceeds at a snail's pace. I'm stalled in the muddled middle, which always seems to happen. Worse, in my head I refer to this one as my Don Quioxte fic because it pretty much breaks all self-imposed rules of fanfic... because it's the kind of fanfic no one ever reads.
It's Gen
It's first person POV
Worse, it's an OC first person POV!
It's BtVS Season 8
The show characters are little more than back-drop and/or cameos
Spike isn't even in it.
No one is going to read this thing, so why am I writing it?
And yet I do.
At this point, I think I'm determined to finish it simply out of stubborness.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 07:06 pm (UTC)Good luck with the fanfic! I am currently writing a similar kind of fic (first person POV character, not OC, but a character only spoken of in canon, never shown). In addition, it's depressing as hell and I have no where to post it because it doesn't meet the rules of the shipper communities I would normally post to. And yet, I am determined to finish it. I think stubbornness is as good an explanation as any.
no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 10:13 pm (UTC)And I seem surprised.
Uh, I have this fic that's about an original character, it's written from the first person POV, it's set in Season Eight, Buffy appears, but not until the second half, and Spike isn't in it at all...
It's called Epitaph and it is repeated mentioned as a favored piece among those who are touched enough to enjoy my work.
I didn't know that any of those things counted against it.
Keep going. I'm sure your story will be smashing. :)
no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 02:07 am (UTC)I was simply saying that it could surprise you. You might end up with something that others not only take interest in, but hold up as being 'quite good.'
no subject
Date: 2011-07-08 02:48 pm (UTC)If only that were true, I'd get more writing done. Burn Notice, White Collar, Memphis Beat, and my new guilty pleasure Teen Wolf are only a small part of what is eating up my time.
And Torchwood returns tonight!
no subject
Date: 2011-07-19 01:30 am (UTC)