B2FreakingMeM!

[huinare]

I'm in a way better mood today.  I think it has more than a bit to do with the fact that I started my B2Me story last night.  Yes, singular, I'm just doing one story, which I anticipate might fall into the 10,000-20,000 word range if I do manage to finish what I start for once.  Among other things, I was feeling crappy that I wanted to start a new story when I have so many unfinished ones giving me the evil eye from out of their dusty corners.  But then I realized that I was enthusiastic about and inspired by my Númenor plot bunny, so why the crap not just do it?

It's going to have multiple POVs and probably various narrative styles, which ought to keep me entertained.  I started it last night with a bit from Aulë's POV.

I think Mairon will have something to say today.  Am debating doing first person Mairon, which I have never done and I don't know if it's a good idea because his personality is so drastically different from mine that I always feel like it would be invasive and insensitive of me to presume to get inside his head.  (I've never had a character who actually intimidates me before, to say nothing of intimidating all my typical POV characters.)

The challenge--well, this often is the challenge for me--will be not to get bogged down in geophysical considerations.  I should especially stay far, far away from researching whether there are any possible ways for a continental microplate to exist in the midst of a bunch of oceanic crust.  There are other ways to solve this without spending the better part of a day in research.

Comments

[independence1776]

Good luck! :D

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll need it! X)

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

Am debating doing first person Mairon, which I have never done and I don't know if it's a good idea because his personality is so drastically different from mine that I always feel like it would be invasive and insensitive of me to presume to get inside his head.

Heh. Now that's a significant contrast to me. First person Sauron is one of my favorite self-indulgences. Which reminds me that I really ought to revisit the mouldering fell beast fic...

Your approach to B2FreakingMeM sounds like a very good one. As for starting one more story whilst WIPs linger? Have at it. Nothing wrong with that at all. :^)

Glad to hear your mood has lifted. I still bear scars from a few dark times during undergrad and grad school.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I think first person narration is easiest/most fun when one has a good degree of common ground with their narrator. Then again, what I evidently forgot about first person is that one can find something to relate to in most characters, and my Mairon was not so unfathomable as I thought. It’s his habitual confidence and lack of boundaries that worries me most, but fortuitously it began with him recounting one of his rare low points, so I didn’t have to deal point blank with that yet. Hopefully I’ll be comfortably situated in his headspace by the time all the shit hits the fan plot-wise.

Mouldering fell beast first person DM fic? That does sound like it bears revisiting. =D
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Thank you. The good thing, relatively speaking, is that my more dire moods don’t last as long as they’ve been known to in the past.

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

Then again, what I evidently forgot about first person is that one can find something to relate to in most characters...

Now this is a truism. There's always something to which the author can relate in a character she or he writes, and it sounds like you're honing in on that with Mairon.

I'm a classic ENTJ on the Briggs-Myers astrological divination personality categorizer, so Mairon's "taking over the world because I know better than anyone else" is not a stretch for me. :^D

[huinare.livejournal.com]

*g* I'd most likely peg my Mairon as an ENTJ. Which really is not so very different from me, except for the E factor (that right there is a very significant difference...I'll figure it out though).