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Thaumaturge02:

--- Quote from: Snowleopard on January 28, 2011, 05:28:27 PM ---Careful with the Jerkass Facade - too much and readers won't like your character or have patience for him.

Could this idea be possibly slightly similar to one of Barbra Hambly's wizard tales?  I can' think of the series name, sorry.
The neutral good girl sounds similar but not sure bout the wizard.

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Never actually heard of that series before.

And thanks for the advice on the facade.

Snowleopard:

--- Quote from: Thaumaturge02 on January 28, 2011, 09:02:42 PM ---Never actually heard of that series before.

And thanks for the advice on the facade.

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I apologize for not knowing the series name.  The woman in the story is pulled from our Universe into a parallel one with magic.
But the Wizard isn't really like yours.  More an oddball, character based in part on Tom Baker from the Dr.Who TV series.

jeno:

--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on January 28, 2011, 02:49:47 PM ---Reader expectations are there to be subverted, no ?

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True. But if you set up everything that way, you may be taking on more work than you necessarily want to handle.  :D

Piotr1600:
Dunno.. The unresolved sexual tension worked well for "Moonlighting", "Beauty and the Beast", and others - and seems to be working in TDF, IMO...

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: jeno on January 29, 2011, 02:55:01 AM ---True. But if you set up everything that way, you may be taking on more work than you necessarily want to handle.  :D

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there's only so much one can do at a time, agreed.

I just.. this may be naive of me, but it seems to me that if someone reads, say, Harry Potter, and loves it so much that what they want is the experience of exactly the same story again, they just turn the book over and start again from the beginning; that if somebody picks up a new book, there must be at least some degree of wanting something new involved in the motivation.  hence that there is limited point to telling a story that is too familiar.

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