writing related things
Okay tumblr let’s do a survey type thing (by this I mean, please, give me your opinions).
In 2012 I decided I would write a novel. Because idk. I wrote the better half of two in fic form last year and that takes a lot of time and I need something I can show people irl to legitimise my claim that I in fact write as a hobby.
The basic premise of this novel is that four friends of the quarter life crisis generation (represent!) share a year together with its ups and downs and trials and tribulations. It’ll be roughly split into four novellas, one for each character, with the chapters interspersed with third person POV meetings of the group in various bars, the idea being that each character is (vaguely) relaying the important events in their life to their friends. Those bits will all sort of be linked so sometimes it will feed forward (or back)
I’ve started writing all of it, but all the characters seem to want different tenses and POVs for their novella. (One definitely wants to be in second, another first.) I was thinking (in a douchebag kind of ~it will make an artistic statement~ sort of way) of just writing it like it wants to be written, with each characters’ story told from a POV that ~says something~ about their character. But that would mean each little bit would be from a different POV and possibly in a different tense. Is this too wanky? There will be dates involved and a strict timeline, so I don’t think it will make the narrative confusing, it’ll just be jarring for the reader. But I’m not entirely uncomfortable with that, because like I said ~artistic statement with layered meaning~.
Thoughts? Opinions? Rotten tomatoes?
x-posted to LJ, sorry to any of you who read both. (if you read on LJ, there are extraneous details, please don’t share those here, if you wouldn’t mind.)
