A Post in Two Parts
Mar. 22nd, 2010 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starzkiPart One:
Random dreams last night.
In one of them, I was trying to make some phone calls and having a very hard time getting the number right. I even commented within the dream, "Geez! If I didn't know better, I would think I was dreaming because I always have trouble dialing when I'm dreaming!" I woke up minutes later feeling foolish.
In another,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scribefigaro was having a slumber party with some of his good friends. Stephen King showed up and talked and talked to them about one of their favorite books (in general, not of Stephen King's). We were all in our bedroom sitting like kindergarten children for story-time while Stephen King held court and opined and shared his own stories. I was a little mad because he wouldn't pay any attention to me and I hadn't read the stinking book he was going on about. :(
I won't even mention the other dream where people were carrying video cameras that looked suspiciously like penises. That probably is a little to Freudian, even for me.
Part Two:
Realizations about my Inuyasha fanfiction writing.
I've got two lovely plot bunnies for the Inuyasha fandom. One is the Miroku-centric drabble I've been on about before. Another is pretty much a PWP lime/lemon told more from Sango's perspective. While the Miroku one is mostly drabbly and I could write it in one evening, it's going to take a little research and I don't want to do it right now. So there.
The PWP has actually what has gotten me thinking. I'm realizing that whenever I tell a story from Sango's perspective (not counting my AUs, for whatever strange reason), I feel like I'm writing her within her body. There is always some awareness of her own feelings of being present within her body, whether it's her musing on her sprained ankle or the feel of herself blushing. I am very body-conscious in writing Sango in ways that I am not when I write from Miroku's perspective. Miroku is in his own head more than he is in his body. I feel like I can write him better as he just follows his thoughts wherever they take him.
I'm seeing that I pick the perspectives from which I tell my stories based on how much physicality is involved in the story. If it's a story that needs a corporeal foundation and or interpretation, I use Sango. If it's a story about what the characters are thinking and the reasons they make the decisions they do, I tend to go with Miroku. I think that "Her Reasons" is my main departure from this, focusing on Sango's thought processes that is largely disconnected from her body, but I think I was successful in that because is was anti-lyrical and in stark contrast to the way I narrate Miroku's voice.
Anyway, like I said, the PWP, if I do indeed write it, is probably going to contain mostly Sango's perspective. And now that I think about it even more closely with this post, I'm now considering using a first-person perspective with it. Hmm. Yes, that might work.
Random dreams last night.
In one of them, I was trying to make some phone calls and having a very hard time getting the number right. I even commented within the dream, "Geez! If I didn't know better, I would think I was dreaming because I always have trouble dialing when I'm dreaming!" I woke up minutes later feeling foolish.
In another,
scribefigaro was having a slumber party with some of his good friends. Stephen King showed up and talked and talked to them about one of their favorite books (in general, not of Stephen King's). We were all in our bedroom sitting like kindergarten children for story-time while Stephen King held court and opined and shared his own stories. I was a little mad because he wouldn't pay any attention to me and I hadn't read the stinking book he was going on about. :(I won't even mention the other dream where people were carrying video cameras that looked suspiciously like penises. That probably is a little to Freudian, even for me.
Part Two:
Realizations about my Inuyasha fanfiction writing.
I've got two lovely plot bunnies for the Inuyasha fandom. One is the Miroku-centric drabble I've been on about before. Another is pretty much a PWP lime/lemon told more from Sango's perspective. While the Miroku one is mostly drabbly and I could write it in one evening, it's going to take a little research and I don't want to do it right now. So there.
The PWP has actually what has gotten me thinking. I'm realizing that whenever I tell a story from Sango's perspective (not counting my AUs, for whatever strange reason), I feel like I'm writing her within her body. There is always some awareness of her own feelings of being present within her body, whether it's her musing on her sprained ankle or the feel of herself blushing. I am very body-conscious in writing Sango in ways that I am not when I write from Miroku's perspective. Miroku is in his own head more than he is in his body. I feel like I can write him better as he just follows his thoughts wherever they take him.
I'm seeing that I pick the perspectives from which I tell my stories based on how much physicality is involved in the story. If it's a story that needs a corporeal foundation and or interpretation, I use Sango. If it's a story about what the characters are thinking and the reasons they make the decisions they do, I tend to go with Miroku. I think that "Her Reasons" is my main departure from this, focusing on Sango's thought processes that is largely disconnected from her body, but I think I was successful in that because is was anti-lyrical and in stark contrast to the way I narrate Miroku's voice.
Anyway, like I said, the PWP, if I do indeed write it, is probably going to contain mostly Sango's perspective. And now that I think about it even more closely with this post, I'm now considering using a first-person perspective with it. Hmm. Yes, that might work.
