tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093499986237480423.post527146597679419247..comments2023-03-26T15:27:37.450+08:00Comments on begin again...: what you learn when you've written 57,663 words of a book...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816650270802955615noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093499986237480423.post-1106831459140391822010-10-30T07:00:11.516+08:002010-10-30T07:00:11.516+08:00Writing as a revenge attack! It's a while sinc...Writing as a revenge attack! It's a while since I thought of it that way, and in relation to fictional writing.<br /><br />Will you remember the hours you spent watching <i>Top Gear</i> or the hours you spent writing?<br /><br />In both situations - the character you love being ripped apart, and the jerky character going to "reform school" - there is a big change. Conflict in their lives makes the story more appealing, perhaps, and adds more words!<br /><br />As for the character being a "generic type", that's when you need <i>TV Tropes</i>, and find a way to avert and subvert his/her particular cliche. And this is when you take a mountain view over the story (the "God" view) and ask, "Well, are you serving the story?"<br /><br />Your last sentence made me think hard about who has voices and who doesn't. In some times in history, schoolkids had voices and writers didn't. And, also, the schoolkid's identity is subsumed in the collective voice.<br /><br />Just enjoying Grace Woodroofe at the moment, her piece, "I've Handled Myself Wrong".<br /><br />And the Finlay sisters make up Stonefield.<br /><br />Wanted to tell you about the "Plot Clinic".Adelaide Duponthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01490123934889071074noreply@blogger.com