odosgirl ([info]odosgirl) wrote,
@ 2008-07-14 09:25:00
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Current location:The Living Room
Current mood: awake
Current music:"Dinosauring" by the Dirty Socks Funtime Band

Stuff and Nonesense
This is just a babbling check-in post for a Monday morning. My brain is not really up to coherent thought at the moment (I still have to get the kid down to afternoon day camp, among other things). I did have some success revising a couple of key scenes in my romance novel over the weekend. I also seem to have decided to re-write one entire portion from the hero's POV. Since the initial draft was completely from the heroine's perspective, I look forward to the insights that might be yielded by the switch. The last time I tried this, the results were very interesting. I gained lots of insights into the fictional world I'm writing.

I also finished the Lisa Kleypas novel, Prince of Dreams, that I was reading. I loved it. It's now official; I'm addicted to this writer's work. This woman's books have become my idea of the perfect literary comfort food. They contain most of the perks of fanfic (without having to deal with the the social complications of an actual fandom), and the author's prose style is beautiful. I've had my interest in a promising romance plot destroyed too many times by clunky or sloppy writing. What a joy to discover a romance writer who knows how to construct a pleasing sentence.

I'm considering writing an essay on the kids' shows that I've come to enjoy watching with (or even without) my six-year-old son. The top three would probably be Blue's Clues, Arthur, and Wow, Wow Wubbzy. (I just like saying "Wow, Wow, Wubbzy." Don't you?)


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[info]therck
2008-07-14 02:18 pm UTC (link)
I like switching point of view occasionally. I tend to find out things that I hadn't quite realized before. It also reminds me about how unreliable a limited third person narrative can be, how much a single point of view doesn't show and warps what is shown. I find myself shifting point of view to show and to obscure different things.

As to kids' shows, we're currently hooked on the Backyardigans. Delia finds some of the episodes too scary (she dislikes anything with a villain), but she loves most of the episodes.

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[info]odosgirl
2008-07-14 07:49 pm UTC (link)
I love the Backyardigans. (Uniqua completely rocks!) Ross has limited attention span for them, though he did seem to like the Surfing and Mission to Mars episodes. My favorites of the ones I've seen are "Tale of the Mighty Knights" and the amazing "Samurai Pie" (loved the music in that one). I have been know to put Wubbzy on at 9pm on Noggin after Keith Olbermann is done just because I've had enough of the serious stuff and need a laugh. Ross will ask me to draw the characters from that show. They're actually not too hard to produce. :-)

I agree that POV switches are often very helpful and revealing. I learned how useful they were with some of my first fanfics and I've loved playing with them ever since.

I've only written a few paragraphs on the project mentioned above, but already I can see that I'm going to get buckets of new information out of my hero. For one thing, he's the skilled magic user in this set-up, while the heroine is an unconscious or naive user. That means he's aware of all sorts of minutia that neither the heroine nor I have yet figured. Yes, I am one of those weird writers who actually needs to muck around in the story and let my characters speak before I actually figure out what's going on -- so the more of them that speak, the better.

It's also kind of fun to step into the shoes of a man looking at/desiring a woman rather than the reverse (which is, after all, closer to my own "everyday" perspective). There is indeed a curious and discernable "power shift" that happens in taking up a male perspective.

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