Tuesday
I'm going to start conscientiously working on the crime book now, I hope. To be more normal. I've been told by various people that I do better writing in the first person, so I'm going to add some first person elements to this novel. It'll feature the main character from the Remote book, but, unlike that, I'll try to make it amusing. I have a very convoluted plotline, which is good, and about nine thousand words written so far. I started thinking about this idea in 2007 so I should finish the first draft in about ten years time!
11 comments:
Which version of normal are you going for? *grin*
I'm impressed you can keep track of different tense when you write. I've been known to switch mid sentence, much to the dismay of my editor.
Marie! My version of normal at the moment is to do something other than meditate all the time! BTW I can't remember what a "tense" is now or how to keep track of one! Are we talking present, future and past? I've forgotten everything I used to know about writing. When I start writing something, I always feel as if I'm making it up from scratch. Hotboy
I say!
It's obviously an age thing.
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Mingin'! What is? Being tense? Anyway, I used to be dead keen on writing and would know when I'd have stuff finished, etc. It was a lot more important to me then. Obviously, now I'm just pottering about! Hotboy
Donleavy used to switch freely between the first and third person, before postmodernism was even invented.
Albert? I sometimes wonder what postmodernism is, but not often. Donleavy is a very good writer. I read everything by him when I was in my late twenties. Especially liked The Ginger Man and a Fairytale of New York. He shadow boxes every day even yet.
I remember Fairytale of New York - sad and lonely but funny. He wrote one recently in similar vein, where the central character was a woman. I forget the title.
Albert? I never read books any more. Apparently, everyone's attention span has been ruined by the computery thing! Hotboy
After all the getting off your face, you should be the first writer able to write a book in the fourth person.
Albert? Don't you mean the fourth dimension? Hotboy
Dimensions, tenses, persons. This new bloggy is so intellectual, so it is. No, I was assuming you would have discovered a fourth person beyond the understanding of even persons as erudite my good self.
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