a challenge for the manly

Here is the first challenge:
A challenge I issued for the Manly Men.

Write a fic that includes three different points-of-view.

(In practice, that would probably mean a fic with three sections, each with a
different pov.)

The fic can tell the same events from different perspectives, or slightly
different events from different perspectives, or totally unrelated events from
different perspectives. First-person, third-person: that is all left up to you.
As
long as the pov switches.

Gacked from a challenge once posted by Zarah to contrelamontre.

Deadline: 31 March 2004. You have one month! Go!

ajhall?

Eeek, what happened to ajhalluk??? She of Lust over Pendle fame?

I hate these deletions.

characterisation

Here's a question: have any of you ever read any fic of mine that was lacking in characterisation in some way? This is now a beta criticism I have had several times for a variety of fics. Whenever I have got this beta comment in the past, I have not posted the fic. (Well, I did finally post My Very First Fic a few weeks ago... but that was 2 years after the fact!) I may now dust another one of those unposted fics off and post it just to get some clarification.

Just wondering. Two of the alleged under-characterised fics featured Jed Brophy. So I'm thinking that perhaps Jed is some sort of cypher character for me; perhaps he *is* the "Man without Qualities" (novel by Robert Musil) ; a kind of flat blank -- and I do see him like that a bit: smooth, snappy dresser, sharp, not overly emotional or forthcoming. A bit of an Invisible Man. But how to convey that in a fic? It can perhaps only be done through stylistic means -- I wouldn't want to do it via showing his feelings (because the point would be that he doesn't have any). It's difficult to foist such a man upon fandom because fanfic is so heavily built around characters with a rich inner emotional life and plot revolves around psychological tension, especially in Lotrips (one of the insights I've garnered from doing the narratological analysis of fanfic, which, btw, is 4/5 finished!!).

Well, I realise this is difficult to answer without a concrete example so I will finally post that unposted thing in the next few days. It's been gathering dust somewhere on my shelves (god, I only hope I can *find* it in this mess: still no finished loft!).

I suppose I'm pondering two issues:
1) Do I tend to give short shrift to characterisation? (And if so, in what types of situations? Because I don't think all of my fics have this tendency but I can see that some do.)
2) And if I do, is that a bad thing? (And how to turn it into a positive thing?)

lord of the who

I am strangely bored by Lotr at the moment. I mean, Jonathan Ross is holding forth as I type and I can't even be bothered to get up off my arse and move downstairs to the television. Nor have I bothered to click on the Bagend Inn for any pics. I mean, have there been any interesting ones or just the usual sheaf of Pete/Dom/Billy/Viggo/Andy? I mean, I can't imagine that Jed was there, or B.K., or Karl, or the Warrior of Gondor woman, or that Karl finally snogged Dom, or that at least Orli shook a curl or two.

*yawns*

But who knows? Maybe I'm wrong.

ETA: Ack!!! Apparently I am!! I just read azewewish's post -- she met Jed!

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