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Chickenshit: when I have trouble figuring what or how I want to say something, I start listing possibilities rapid fire. I've discovered that the sillier and more terrible I let myself be, the sooner I find word or angle I was looking for. It occasionally gets snorffle-ly. Yesterday, when I character was chiding himself about bravery, I came up with The chicken he heard clucking was metaphorical. Bad in every way, but it made me laugh.
It also got me to the description I actually used.
Conceits: word choice angst! I like vivid words; I like words in a sentence, and later in their paragraph to match each other. Yet I worry that I belabor points or that it's corny or obvious. Ugh. I have a good eye in others' writing. Why is it so hard to see it in your own?
Chatfic: not that I haven't wanked about this before, or that the real, correct answer isn't "Actually, there are 70 billions things wrong with it.", but I hit on what makes chatfic read so off. It's the lack of character precedence. What makes for fun musing-- everyone having somethingto angst over going on and equal importance/say-- makes for emotionally diluted reading. Though the incidents of the story can (and do) affect most characters, and any those characters may have emotional reactions just as intense as the main character, most stories/situations are still one person's story, or at the very least, one person's moment.
I'm not wanking about multiple points-of-view. Those work. I won't bore anyone with examples. I'm talking about Big Moment intrusion, a scene in which Character A just suffered a crushing, character-redefining loss at tennis, and while he's trying to cope, every four lines or so of text, suddenly there's Character B in the stands watching his friend sadly, hoping for the best. Back off, Character B. No one cares about you right now. Let me angst with Character A about his stuff, then we'll get to you and your drama.
Changing the subject: anyone know what AJ Style's denomination is?
It also got me to the description I actually used.
Conceits: word choice angst! I like vivid words; I like words in a sentence, and later in their paragraph to match each other. Yet I worry that I belabor points or that it's corny or obvious. Ugh. I have a good eye in others' writing. Why is it so hard to see it in your own?
Chatfic: not that I haven't wanked about this before, or that the real, correct answer isn't "Actually, there are 70 billions things wrong with it.", but I hit on what makes chatfic read so off. It's the lack of character precedence. What makes for fun musing-- everyone having something
I'm not wanking about multiple points-of-view. Those work. I won't bore anyone with examples. I'm talking about Big Moment intrusion, a scene in which Character A just suffered a crushing, character-redefining loss at tennis, and while he's trying to cope, every four lines or so of text, suddenly there's Character B in the stands watching his friend sadly, hoping for the best. Back off, Character B. No one cares about you right now. Let me angst with Character A about his stuff, then we'll get to you and your drama.
Changing the subject: anyone know what AJ Style's denomination is?
