[ SECRET POST #3975 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3975 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How do you interrogate the text? (not trying to sound like a wiseass, genuinely curious).

Examples?/Things you have enjoyed/are currently working on? Any character analysis?

[(Anonymous)]

Well... in a show I like, there's a flashback scene early on where a man had his wife hung (she gets better).

It's his flashback and the camera angles are from his point of view. There's lots of close shots of his anguished face (he wasn't happy), mid-range shots of the actual hanging scene and the participants, some tight, *tight* focussing on this tiny detail of a button falling from her sleeve-cuff as they tie her hands behind her. It's a good scene.

If I were writing her point of view into a story, I'd think about what she perceives - the harshness of the rope on her wrists, the air on her face. Is everything brighter, from the anticipation of death, or dulled with despair. I doubt I'd write her even noticing the button, but the pretty white dress she's wearing... Is it new? Did someone pick it out for her? Or was it taken from her wardrobe and, if so, what memories does she associate with it? Did they send in a maid to wash and dress her in a bizarre farce of her everyday morning, or shove the clothing in and expect her to fix herself up... What does she see when she looks at her husband, sitting on a horse in the distance, riding off before she's quite breathed her last?

Or I might set two characters talking who don't interact much in canon, and see what similarities in their life stories they might have, just letting the voices of the characters find their own way.

Or I might pick at some flaws in the text - people behaving stupidly, or a conversation that maybe doesn't quite make sense, and look for ways to explain them. And that exercise can suggest interesting things.

I'll try to pick out characters physical tics, too, and work them into their dialogue (I s'pect most ficcers do that.)

I mean, sometimes I just write simple and fluffy. But when I try to pick the bones of the text as I write the fic, I end up getting layers and repeating motifs and extra... fragrance, I guess? Sorry, that's an imprecise word.