my girl is the queen of 10 villages; we live on the fruits of her pillages

[angelgazing]

(1) Ouch, fucking, ow.
(2) Today is not my day.
(3) My love for this song could move mountains, right now.
(4) Photoshop is uncooperative. Icons defeat me.
(5) Writing is hard.
(6) I should never make the mistake of thinking I'm doing something well.
(7) Nothing will work. Nothing.
(8) I've got 13 days. 5 fics and 13 days.
(9) I'm not thinking I'll win this time.
(10) Please to start using "that're" because I like it and need to not be odd anymore. Turns out odd doesn't work if no one bloody well likes it. No one does. I've done a poll.
(11) We think all of life is a funny joke/ She's sharp as a tack/ I don't care if I never get back.
(12) Sirius is a bastard.
(13) Does POV change the language of your narrative? The style? Please tell.
(14) I hate the winter. It's too cold, and my hair gets staticy and shit happens.
(15) My girl is the Queen of the Savages
(16) Alan Tudyk can be my international man of mystery anytime he likes.
(17) I miss Supernatural already. Six weeks is ass. The WB is ass.
(18) I'm talking to myself again. This won't end well.
(19) My uncle used the phrase "your Anderson Cooper" today.
(20) I've lost track of what anything says about me. Maybe you can say something about me instead. ::waits::

Comments

[angelgazing.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get the idea. I mean, I know that the language of my narrative changes. I know that for a lot of people it does. It just seems that sometimes it... doesn't. And I have to wonder if that's sort of a... not good thing.

I explain badly. lol

Does age make the biggest narrative change? Does gender? Does Rowling manage to make a narrative voice change obvious without it being too obvious, in the few scenes where it's not really from Harry's POV? I've got so many questions... ;)

[nekare.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it changes a lot, at least for me. I mean, if you wrote a, say, torture scene about the DE's; the poor guy being cruci'd would be scared to death, and would see in greater detail due to panic, and the DE in question would probably be thinking what a jolly time he's having and whether he should have spaghetti or raviolis for dinner.

Gender do matters, but not as much as age, or the knowledge of that person. For example, I wrote a gen fic a while ago from Ron's POV, and while it was fun to describe a TV and a cable ended up being a 'noodle', it was also frustrating; and that happens with Harry's POV, we only get stuck with what he believes to be true, so a chapter like 'Spinner's End' could have never been watched from an objective (or possible, actually) point from his eyes. (and if you think about it, in that chapter we don't get an insight to someone's mind at all)

[angelgazing.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about chapters like Spinner's End, and the opening of Goblet of Fire. And how I clearly need to reread HBP. But really, even in the opening of GoF, where it was from the caretaker's POV, a lot of it was also kind of Harry, since it was his dream.

It's a tricky, tricky thing, POV.

I mean, I know, obviously, that the narrative is going to be different if I'm writing a story that's close third with Dean than if I was doing the same with Sam. I find certain characters easier to write for that reason. It's just a matter of degrees, I guess. How much should it change and so on.