tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post4523486162974492110..comments2023-12-26T23:07:08.005-08:00Comments on TOMORROWVILLE: What I meant was...David Isaakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-29666079666858847182010-07-04T09:15:08.009-07:002010-07-04T09:15:08.009-07:00Hi, Alis--
Good for you on the 15-year-old man. I...Hi, Alis--<br /><br />Good for you on the 15-year-old man. I see so many historical pieces where they think what we define as minors were treated as children in the past.<br /><br />Going first person on this should be a breeze--though going the other way would be hard. It's certainly more complicated than switching "he" to "I", of course, but still looks easy enough. And offers a kind of relief.<br /><br />I think the length will stay about the same. There are some side-comments I will want to add in fisrt--making observations is so much easier!--but I will lose a lot of the modulating and clarifying verbiage that third requires, so I expect it to be a wash.<br /><br />I can see that present/past would offer a more formidable challenge, though. Present tense tends to result in a very different set of constructions. I've written in present tense, and I think it reads well enough, but the writing process itself always feels weirdly constrained, as if I'm writing in some unusual dialect.David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-87905188908929845632010-07-04T03:36:14.826-07:002010-07-04T03:36:14.826-07:00I must confess, I've decided that close third ...I must confess, I've decided that close third person has no benefits over first person and, in my wip, I'm impersonating (to use your apposite word) a fifteen year old boy. Or rather young man as he would definitely have been regarded as in the fourteenth century. <br />But, on another of your points, I wonder how easy it would be just to rewrite in first person. Parts of my wip are in the present tense and other parts in the past tense and I have had to convert a couple of chapters from one to the other. I thought it would be a simple case of altering all the verb tenses but it turned out that there were a lot of subtleties which demanded more extensive thought and re-working. I hope it's easier for you if you decide to flip from 3rd to 1st.Alishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18406189984167289987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-35461995987368235842010-07-02T11:15:49.232-07:002010-07-02T11:15:49.232-07:00Hi, Frances--
I only sorta understand myself.
No...Hi, Frances--<br /><br />I only sorta understand myself.<br /><br />Nonetheless, Chapter 12 was just written in first person. (Wow. Talk about passive constructions...)David Isaakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04928598446742324391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371628584376797540.post-21344834171544671132010-06-30T14:16:14.619-07:002010-06-30T14:16:14.619-07:00Thank you, David. I think I understand...Thank you, David. I think I understand...Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.com