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Gonna try something daring
Dec. 8th, 2007 09:11 amI have to rewrite the beginning of a scene, and I'm going to do it in first person. I always write in third person because honestly, first person makes me vaguely uncomfortable (to write, not read). When I read the first person stuff I wrote before I switched over from INFP to INTP/J, I cringe. It seems indulgent. And this, I realize, is silly. If I want to get rid of my inability to submerge myself in a character, I need to get over myself. I love getting inside my character's heads and knowing what makes them tick, but knowing and feeling are two totally different things. The thought of putting on someone's slimy skin? >cringe< Not to mention that my ingrained sense of humility starts grinding out Catholic guilt. (I=Ego, and Ego is something you wnat to keep under control) This actually makes writing Horaci in first person a challenge, because he's so damn humble. Horaci and Ego are not on speaking terms, though in this book, they at least sit down for some tea together.*
But dammit, I'm going to do it (then change it back to third person, because I've got too many pov characters)
I've also got to make my characters more passionate. They tend to be the searching sort who really don't know what they want or where they're going, and it makes them scattered. Yes, I dreamed all this up last night after listening to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kehrli's Nano, which features a very strong-voiced, strong-willed first person narrator who knows exactly what she wants. Passion, it's all about passion.
blah blah blah I'm going to go offline and do it.
*Oh, God. Last night at the Nano party, one of the participants, a rather protective, Christian-home-schooling mother of two other Nano-participants asked if we had excerpts up (on the Nano site or elsewhere). I do, and it involves the line "I'm going to screw your sister." (at a tea party, hence the tangent)
But dammit, I'm going to do it (then change it back to third person, because I've got too many pov characters)
I've also got to make my characters more passionate. They tend to be the searching sort who really don't know what they want or where they're going, and it makes them scattered. Yes, I dreamed all this up last night after listening to
kehrli's Nano, which features a very strong-voiced, strong-willed first person narrator who knows exactly what she wants. Passion, it's all about passion.blah blah blah I'm going to go offline and do it.
*Oh, God. Last night at the Nano party, one of the participants, a rather protective, Christian-home-schooling mother of two other Nano-participants asked if we had excerpts up (on the Nano site or elsewhere). I do, and it involves the line "I'm going to screw your sister." (at a tea party, hence the tangent)
