Unlocking The Camera
June 19, 2010 @ 12:59 AM Filed in:
Previews
When I
write Kathrin’s Story I tend lock the story onto Kathrin. Its
almost like a video game where I can have a first person camera or
a third person one and I use it to show the audience the story. The
camera can see and hear anything Kathrin can. It can hear her
thoughts and feelings but not the those of others. I can also spin
it around her to peer around corners or move it down the street but
I almost never let the reader know anything Kathrin doesn’t. I’m
sure there’s some real writing term for what kind of narration this
is but I really don’t care. It’s just how I write.
This weekend I’m going to do something a little different. I’m going to unlock the camera from Kathrin and retarget it onto my lesser characters starting with Fern. I plan to write a quickly moving short that jumps through her life and focuses on her time with Kathrin up until Casey’s murder. I’ve gotten some good comments saying that Fern basically has no character so I’m going to fix it. The goal is to find out what Fern was thinking during part one of Kathrin’s story. How upset was she about possibly losing her apartment? Who was the roommate who bailed on her at the last second and why did the do it? How relieved was she when Kathrin signed on to help her out? How does she really react to Kathrin’s reveal of her abilities? Stuff like that and more. I’m expecting and hoping to run across unexpected plot points and feelings and story ideas that I can merge back into the main story from Kathrin’s point of view. If it works well, which it should... I can feel it, I’ll move on to Jennifer Rudo and maybe Neil.
I’d like to let people see these but its too early to tell if they’ll be readable and followable by people who aren’t me. Plus even though I’m limiting all of them to the end of chapter five there may be major spoilers for whats coming next. Probably not but I won’t know until I’m done...
This weekend I’m going to do something a little different. I’m going to unlock the camera from Kathrin and retarget it onto my lesser characters starting with Fern. I plan to write a quickly moving short that jumps through her life and focuses on her time with Kathrin up until Casey’s murder. I’ve gotten some good comments saying that Fern basically has no character so I’m going to fix it. The goal is to find out what Fern was thinking during part one of Kathrin’s story. How upset was she about possibly losing her apartment? Who was the roommate who bailed on her at the last second and why did the do it? How relieved was she when Kathrin signed on to help her out? How does she really react to Kathrin’s reveal of her abilities? Stuff like that and more. I’m expecting and hoping to run across unexpected plot points and feelings and story ideas that I can merge back into the main story from Kathrin’s point of view. If it works well, which it should... I can feel it, I’ll move on to Jennifer Rudo and maybe Neil.
I’d like to let people see these but its too early to tell if they’ll be readable and followable by people who aren’t me. Plus even though I’m limiting all of them to the end of chapter five there may be major spoilers for whats coming next. Probably not but I won’t know until I’m done...