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  • Choosing a Viewpoint

    From Joy Beeson@jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid to rec.arts.sf.composition on Wed Jul 7 23:46:08 2021
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    Patricia Wrede's blog for today
    < https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/picking-a-viewpoint-character >
    is on the selection of a viewpoint character.

    Which reminded me that way back when, when I hadn't yet realized that
    I'm a how-to writer, I took "Two Broken Toys" through at least six
    revisions with my workshop group, and at every revisions I said to
    myself "This is Kossel's story, and it ought to be told from his point
    of view, but Kossel doesn't *have* a point of view.

    At length, I gave in, and found that a disminded man does have a lot
    to think about; it's just erased on input.

    And when "Private Kossel" was complete, it was unanimously declared a
    tour de force.

    Pity that nobody but the members of the original critique group can
    understand it.

    http://wlweather.net/joybackup/ZFICTION/ANJELA/BROKETOY.FIC

    http://wlweather.net/joybackup/ZFICTION/ANJELA/KOSSEL.FIC
    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Joy Beeson@jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid to rec.arts.sf.composition on Fri Jul 9 21:35:55 2021
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    And upon reading my post, I realized that if I told the story from
    S'rajo's point of view, it would be Idiminda's story -- S'rajo knows
    that Idiminda is a good-for-nothing ne'er-do-well who has been exiled
    to the frontier, he knows that Idiminda's father bought the smartest
    slave he could find to be Idiminda's overseer in the hope of keeping
    Ididminda from disgracing the family, . . .

    I wish I had an alter-ego interested in writing the story, because I'd
    like to read it.
    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/


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  • From djheydt@djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) to rec.arts.sf.composition on Sat Jul 10 03:45:15 2021
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    In article <knrhegdg36m2s06v0tfn3ku83aqsa62l63@4ax.com>,
    Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:


    And upon reading my post, I realized that if I told the story from
    S'rajo's point of view, it would be Idiminda's story -- S'rajo knows
    that Idiminda is a good-for-nothing ne'er-do-well who has been exiled
    to the frontier, he knows that Idiminda's father bought the smartest
    slave he could find to be Idiminda's overseer in the hope of keeping >Ididminda from disgracing the family, . . .

    I wish I had an alter-ego interested in writing the story, because I'd
    like to read it.

    Unreliable narrator, in spades!
    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/


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    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/
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