Sep. 10th, 2005

GIP!

Sep. 10th, 2005 09:13 am
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Look what [livejournal.com profile] mpoetess did!
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I just had this and it's SO good. It's like a gooey chocolate orgasm in a bowl.

Double Chocolate Pudding Cake )
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So last night I was thinking and I realized why I have such a hard time writing scenes with more than two or three characters in them.

It's POV's fault.

Because I write in a fairly tight POV, I 'see' the scene from that character's POV. I'm so busy concentrating on how the POV character is interacting with each other character in the scene that that's all I can see. It's like each line of dialogue is playing off the one before it without acknowledging that there's this whole bigger picture.

I don't think I can stop writing from the tight POV I write in. Okay, I could, but I don't think I want to. I might consider experimenting, but I can't picture making a major switch in my style of writing other than temporarily.

But I think what I do need to do, when writing group scenes, is pull back a little bit. I can still be in the POV character's head, but sort of... hovering over him, like a camera shooting the scene from up above. I need to be able to imagine the bigger picture and watch it unfold without forcing it, letting all the characters interact as part of the entire conversation instead of in little pockets of individual space.

Anyway. It made sense last night.

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