Recent content by Leif Notae

And, I might add, it is only through a weak and soft mind that you would demand a comparison and contrast instead of accepting the stand alone analysis of a writer's work. I don't HAVE to compare it to anything because I use logical story study and history of story structure to make my...

(cut by moderators) Elantris - Three points of view that should be one, in which the split of the POV's are an actual detriment to the story itself. The Prince is the main POV, but the princess and the priest are so lacking in their one dimensional act that they drag the carcass down because...

Meh, I've read Catcher for class and it wasn't special, but it was also fot learning so take my POV with a grain of salt.

Remember, this shouldn't prevent you from the act of writing your first draft, but it should be in your mind when you are going through some edits. When you see something flat, perhaps you might be including the reader when you shouldn't. Play it by ear.

Except when you do it a certain way and you make it fall flat because, much like I said in the last thread, you are afraid your reader won't get it. In fact, including them in makes it more evident and readily apparent you need to be the director sitting in the chair next to them, poking at them...

Writing is great, and I accept there is a certain amount of learning from that situation. However, much like in other businesses, you also need to have some mentoring too. Someone teaching you the odds and ends, why you made the mistakes and how they made them too. The re-encouraging voice that...

There, I fixed it for you.

I would submit you never want your reader to be a part of the scene unless you are doing a comedy. Everything else destroys the tension and pitch of the scene.

Sure thing Brian. Think of it this way. You are sitting at a booth in a restaurant. You are enjoying your meal and you overhear a conversation the next booth over. The faux triangle assumes they already know you are listening and are a part of the scene. Everything they say will...

Why do you think I have the monocle?

We agree there is an absolute truth on the way a story is told, yes? Acts divided by the key plot points in which each scene advances a plot, correct? And those scene that do not have a resolution are indeed only scenes until finished? Of course. My way is not writing for "stupid people", and...

No worries, I understand what you are trying to do. I also hear some other people out there who are screaming at their monitors right now. Just want to make sure I cover everyone (including the voices in my head).

But they are absolute truths if you desire to be a writer. There is some wiggle room here and there, sure. The rules don't always apply when you have 10 novels under your belt and you can tell the publisher to suck eggs. However, that comes with experience and privilege. There are certain ways a...

All right, since my participation in the other thread (Do These Things Bother Others...) warranted some in depth details as to what I meant, I wanted to make this a separate thread for those who struggle with dialogue or even getting a realistic story out of their head at times. This is what I...

See, what you are wanting to find here is a reason why there cannot be more than one POV in the beginning of a story. The situation here is that in the end, you have one story being carried out by a protagonist. The CORE of any setting (romance, epic fantasy, sci-fi swamp-gas probing pulp...