New perspective

April 14, 2008

My word count is creeping up. 🙂 I’ve just written a chapter as an email exchange. I need to show the passage of time which can be tricky and was going to ‘tell’ what had happened but I decided to show events instead in the style of a Facebook type of thread. It was very refreshing to write like this – totally different than narrative and the emails are in the characters’ voices. I don’t deviate from third person narrative that often but I think this way of moving the story on has given me a new perspective (even if it gets edited out!)

Comments

1. On April 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
   liz Says:
   

   Sounds good to me and I think sometimes it helps to break up the narrative with something different.

2. On April 17th, 2008 at 2:07 am
   Rosy Thornton Says:
   

   Well (as you know!) I love that style of storytelling. It’s so direct – you are just straight in there in your characters’ voices, with no need for surrounding narrative and speech tags and all that palaver. Nice to see you experimenting with it!

   Rosy x

3. On April 17th, 2008 at 5:26 am
   Phillipa Says:
   

   Thanks Rosy. It wasn’t that easy though! The hard part is writing in different voices – I was thinking of MTLL when I did it and wnderig how you wrote in so many voices, so well. It may be edited out of course, but I don’t think so because it fits in well to the structure and tells the story.