wherein Liz is a terrible tease
Nov. 17th, 2005 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingWrote 200 words of "Guardian" this afternoon. I have decided -- authorial fiat is a wonderful thing -- that there will be 4 POV characters, no more no less: Yukiko, Sasuke, Naga, and Iruka. (This is necessary since Yukiko, Naga, and Iruka are in different places doing different but related things, and because it's a lot easier to show Sasuke's internal character progression if I can, y'know, get inside his head.)
...Unless I do something sneaky and add Amane Eiji (don't worry, you don't know him, he's a non-shinobi OC) as a fifth POV character. Oooh. Actually, that would be really interesting, from a structural standpoint. I'd have to tweak my outline around rather drastically to accomodate him, but that could definitely be interesting...
Hmm. *Liz wanders off to ponder variant story structures*
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In other news, I read another 150 pages of Lord of Emperors, which is rapidly picking up speed and drawing elements of the story together. I have a feeling that the climax is going to be a doozy, and very, very painful to probably all the people involved. Which is going to hurt me as well, since I like all of them, even the horrible and venal ones -- they feel real to me, and their goals feel real, and yet there is absolutely no way for anybody to 'win' without trampling over a number of other characters and without large numbers of people ending up very, very dead. We're talking about empires, religion, and wars, here. (And sports. Cannot forget the bizarre, violent things people will do because of allegiances to sports teams -- although chariot-racing factions aren't precisely the same thing, and are probably all the more dangerous for the differences.)
If the book makes me cry, I will be heartbroken and thrilled at the same time. I hope it does. I really hope it does -- it's been too long since I read an ending perfect enough to bring tears.
ETA as of November 27th: It made me cry. Then I went and read The Lions of Al-Rassan and I ended up sniffling again. *shakes fist at Kay* Tigana, however, did not induce actual sniffles, though the bit just before the true end came pretty close. *wanders off to read A Song for Arbonne*
...Unless I do something sneaky and add Amane Eiji (don't worry, you don't know him, he's a non-shinobi OC) as a fifth POV character. Oooh. Actually, that would be really interesting, from a structural standpoint. I'd have to tweak my outline around rather drastically to accomodate him, but that could definitely be interesting...
Hmm. *Liz wanders off to ponder variant story structures*
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In other news, I read another 150 pages of Lord of Emperors, which is rapidly picking up speed and drawing elements of the story together. I have a feeling that the climax is going to be a doozy, and very, very painful to probably all the people involved. Which is going to hurt me as well, since I like all of them, even the horrible and venal ones -- they feel real to me, and their goals feel real, and yet there is absolutely no way for anybody to 'win' without trampling over a number of other characters and without large numbers of people ending up very, very dead. We're talking about empires, religion, and wars, here. (And sports. Cannot forget the bizarre, violent things people will do because of allegiances to sports teams -- although chariot-racing factions aren't precisely the same thing, and are probably all the more dangerous for the differences.)
If the book makes me cry, I will be heartbroken and thrilled at the same time. I hope it does. I really hope it does -- it's been too long since I read an ending perfect enough to bring tears.
ETA as of November 27th: It made me cry. Then I went and read The Lions of Al-Rassan and I ended up sniffling again. *shakes fist at Kay* Tigana, however, did not induce actual sniffles, though the bit just before the true end came pretty close. *wanders off to read A Song for Arbonne*
