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tatty bojangles ([personal profile] apocalypsos) wrote2004-01-08 06:47 pm

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Aaaaaaand I'm back to debating whether or not this novel should be first-person present switching between different characters or third-person past. This is what I get for reading the damn thing and liking it the way it is.

I want someone to read it who's not in my writer's group. (Sorry, Misfits, you guys are waaaaay too thorough when it comes to editing. That's not a bad thing, just ... I just want people who haven't read DMIDS and aren't going to send me back a highly detailed beta to read this first. Then you guys. 'Kay?)

Anybody want to volunteer to peek at a couple of chapters of this story? If you've read "Ghost in the Shell", then you know what it looks like when I write first-person present tense. This one's original and each chapter's from the point of view of a different character, though, so there, you're forewarned. (I'm just worried it'll be confusing, is all. It's not confusing me, but I'm writing the damn thing.)

I don't plan on posting on LJ for obvious reasons but anyone who wants a peek, I'll email it to you.

[identity profile] fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll look at it, if you'd like. E-mail's meyukiu@yahoo.com

[identity profile] hetrez.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll look at it. play_the_tarentella@yahoo.com

[identity profile] tenebris.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd love to take a look.

bkubacki at comcast dot net.

[identity profile] randomfrog.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd love to take a look at it- christinespork[at]yahoo[dot]com

[identity profile] silly-dan.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You can send it to danmacqueen (at) yahoo.ca, but it might take a while for me to read it...

[identity profile] kolys.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, I'll be more than happy to take a look - especially if you would be so kind as to take a look at [livejournal.com profile] youhavethewrite and let me know what you think of some of my pieces there.

kolys@earthlink.net

[identity profile] thespatz.livejournal.com 2004-01-08 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd like a copy, though I can't promise fast feedback. double_trouble_13@hotmail.com

I like your writing...

[identity profile] seferin.livejournal.com 2004-01-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
So let me get a look?

garsoc
at
carolina
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dot com

Hmph...

[identity profile] 1st-folio.livejournal.com 2004-01-09 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
Okay fine, I will keep my evil red pen for another day...

But I do want to see it eventually. First person present tense--that's a tough POV (to me anyway). Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't--depends (of course) on the writing... Are you saying multiple first person-present tense (whew)? All right, I am working (occasionally) on a multiple first person past-tense, and even with that I struggle with whether I "should" or not. But if you like it, and it makes you say "hey" then go for leaving it like it is.

*tosses pen on desk*

So okay TP, holler when ready.

One of them thar Misfits