I love Tom Baker, but he ain't me

[ksmith]

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You scored as 10th Doctor. Rude and not ginger. You wear glasses and help people. </td> 10th Doctor 83% 5th Doctor 67% 9th Doctor 67% 3rd doctor 50% 2nd doctor 50% 1st Doctor 50% Davros 33% 4th Doctor 33% 7th Doctor 25% a Dalek 25% 6th doctor 17% 8th Doctor 0% What Doctor Who character are You? created with QuizFarm.com

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[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

From an entry on my lj - don't know if you ever stop by, but...

I finally got books one and two (I've had 3 for ages).. and four. Read one, started the second.

Yum.

Or more substantially : I love the characterizations you've got going. I really like the distinctive voices you have both in personalities but also in dialogue, something I huuugely admire. I also love your pacing.

You've also, at this point, written that fine line of "broken heroine" that not many can do - and you've done it! (grin) The realistic, cleareyed look at a flawed person that I so love reading.

Like you need my approval, just wanted to let you know I'd FINALLY gotten around to reading Jani. (smile) And am enjoying myself immensely.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

matociquala said in one of her writing posts last year that most of us get a pass, one aspect that we can handle well from the outset. From the feedback I've gotten, my pass seems to be characterization. I love writing relationships, conflicts based on personality, meetings. I love forming and shaping people/idomeni/whichever.

I think that may play in with the dialogue. I like writing that, too.

I appreciate the compliment concerning pacing. To me, pacing is a stone bitch/black box/worse than plot as far as seat-of-the-pants goes. I'm not even sure what it is--the rate at which things happen? The way events build and combine to form freaking disasters? All I know is that there's a voice in my head that starts to mutter when it thinks things are moving too slowly. It really screams when I mess up and make Jani reactive rather than proactive--during the first draft of J5, it kept kicking my chair and yelling, "Jani wouldn't sit around--she'd have done something by now!"

I don't think I could write a protag who wasn't flawed. It's sick of me, but as soon as I read a book or watch a movie featuring classic heroes/heroines, those perfect souls whose only flaw seems to be that they don't understand how wonderful they are, I start imagining the shoebox hidden in the attic. The one with the pictures...

Because dammit, flaws are where the stories are.

[mt-yvr.livejournal.com]

Description. That's my pass. (shrug) I'm having to learn all the others.

It's interesting... the never-ending-really-sometime-soon novel I'm working on? The main thrust of it is : being a hero or heroine is easy. Pick up the sword or the ray gun, follow the script and move on. The real ones? They're harder.

Abria, my protag, doesn't save the universe or the world or even herself. She survives. That's it. And that is what makes her a heroine.

(Warm glowy feeling)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Description is, I think, a weakness of mine. That, and worldbuilding. I tend to only build enough world to give my characters something to interact with, and as the series goes on, the 'wish I'd done that differentlys' start to crop up. Oh well, can't plan for everything.

Survival is good. If you can give them a break and let them live well, at least for a while, that's the best revenge.