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Oh yes! me too! I just want to get to book three…I’ve already book two, but its still pretty rough.
Yep, you’ve told me about that one. it’s the one which had a lot of povs and you had to get rid of some and its the one with Alex in it, am I right?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice @catwing
Hey I’ll be here for a bit before I go off for bible study.
SeekJustice you have a blog? Can I read it? 😀
@seekjustice Yes, I’ve chopped the POVs in half, so ONLY three now. 😀
It IS the first one with Alex. The same Alex as the short story you helped me edit… but earlier, before all that burning everything which is book two. :3IMMA KAPEEFER! Til we're old and gray!
@valtmy Welcome!
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I do indeed have a blog. anordinarypen.wordpress.com/
@catwing Three isn’t bad, I’ve read books with more. I don’t think I could do more than three, 😛 I’d confuse myself, let alone my reader! Ah, okay, before she goes pyromaniac.I have a question though. Is Alex bad? or misunderstood? or what?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice I had six. *nods* I was told I confused the readers so… And I had planned more for the second book, so I’m going to have to figure that out. It’s fun. ;P
aaahhhh… I shall say she is a teenager who feels betrayed, confused, and really really mad. The group she meets doesn’t help at all either. But I don’t want to say too much that may spoil my book for you. :3 *nods*
IMMA KAPEEFER! Til we're old and gray!
You could always swap some of the povs for book two, couldn’t you? in my novel, I have two first-person points, and while my main, main character remains constant, the other pov changes between books. You could try something like that if you wanted.
Poor Alex *hugs her*
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice @catwing
Sorry. Am getting distracted checking out the blog 😛
I have no discipline when it comes to POVs. I just finished a chapter with a scene from the POV of a minor character who I doubt will ever show up on page again. I am amazed how you managed to consistently stick with a few POVs each book, SeekJustice.
@seekjustice Well, I have a timeline… and at least one more sad character to add…
Do you mean changing between first and third person?I know, poor Alex. 🙁
@valtmy *laughs* nice blog, huh?
I do have one book that will have only one POV, in first person… But she is my favorite character. XDIMMA KAPEEFER! Til we're old and gray!
😀 I guess I just got used to writing from only two point of views, but I really like first person so I just deal with it.
I don’t know. Is your book in first person or third? I was just suggesting you could try telling it from a different point of view for the second book, whether that was in first or third. Does that make sense?
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice I’m here now! How’s it going? I think I’m finally going to read the rest of the third part of the second draft of your first book…I love the way that sounds…before I get back to my own book. 😀
@catwing Your WIP sounds interesting, but I’ve been waiting for three years for you to write Firebird… 😛Just kidding, though. I have a few projects people keep asking me to finish but that I’m not very interested in at the moment, so I completely understand that you took a break on that one.
However, I would really like to see it completed some day! 😉
@valtmy Hey-lo. What goes on?"Sylvester - Sylvester!"
It does sound very dramatic, doesn’t it? Cool, I can’t wait to see what you think of the rest 😀
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
@seekjustice I have been doing third person. Yes, I think I understand now.
@rochellaine Thank you. But I’m closer to finishing this one so I’m working on doing that first… 😛Yeah, that’s me too. I didn’t want to do Firebird currently, it was being annoying. I wasn’t making much progress (except my book trying to start a romance subplot. Really book? REALLY?) and I want to start on the sequel to this book (Starting Fires XP). ;3
IMMA KAPEEFER! Til we're old and gray!
Ah, romance subplots are so pesky! They turn up when you least expect them and suddenly, whoa, that guy’s a love interest.
Starting Fires? Oh, I wonder why it’s called that 😛
INFP Queen of the Kingdom commander of an army of origami cranes and a sabre from Babylon.
Hey. Just getting lost reading SeekJustice’s blog and reviewing what I wrote last night… Do you think it is weird if every other character is described as handsome, beautiful, attractive etc.? I mean, my story is supposed to have a sugary romance novel surface (underneath the surface is something else entirely) after all.
For some reason I could never really get into writing first person. I can read it just fine but writing ‘I’ all the time when it is not really ‘I’ just feels weird.
Yep it’s so much easier to write in the POV of a character you like. Once I was stuck for a while because I had to change the POV to one of the villains… And it was not even one of the fun villains.
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