There are a whole lot of activities that make up a writer’s life that involve little or no writing. For example:<\/p>\n
A few days ago my WIP decided that possibly it wanted to be 1st person after insisting for two and a half drafts that it really must be 3rd. (Gee thanks, muse!) But hey, I am always game. What story wants, story gets. And I knew it might solve a few narrative issues I’d been having difficulty with.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, switching POV is not as simple as changing all the “he”s to “I”s. I’d need to have a strong sense of my main character’s voice. And in this particular case my main character is a teenage boy living many centuries ago (to the extent that the events in the story could theoretically be in our reality) in Scandinavia. Though, for fictional purposes, speaking English.<\/p>\n
So what writerly task did I find myself engaged in that evening? Looking up interviews and other videos on YouTube with native Scandinavians speaking in English. Preferably young-ish and male. Which, okay, is not the most<\/i> accurate representation, but it’s about as close as I’m going to get to developing a sense of rhythm and sentence structure and anything else that might be useful.<\/p>\n
All in a day’s work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are a whole lot of activities that make up a writer’s life that involve little or no writing. For example: A few days ago my WIP decided that possibly it wanted to be 1st person after insisting for two … Continue reading