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why i love david mitchell
May. 20th, 2006 01:46 pm( I am remembering why I fell for this guy to begin with, way back when I read page one of Number9Dream )
I realised that I have sometimes written like this, and then I remembered that reading Number9Dream just predates my introduction to fanfic and that when I first started writing fic, I would sometimes read the first page of that novel again to get a grip on the kind of thing I wanted to be doing. I aspire to that ease of metaphor and wit. And the brilliance at sketching in even 'flat' characters as rounded, located and, especially, very nuancedly classed - fantastic dialogues. The next thing I want to learn is how to plot, but that I can only learn once having read the entire book because plot works backwards -- it is only when you've read the last line, that the narrative falls into place retroactively and the beauty of the pattern becomes apparent.
I realised that I have sometimes written like this, and then I remembered that reading Number9Dream just predates my introduction to fanfic and that when I first started writing fic, I would sometimes read the first page of that novel again to get a grip on the kind of thing I wanted to be doing. I aspire to that ease of metaphor and wit. And the brilliance at sketching in even 'flat' characters as rounded, located and, especially, very nuancedly classed - fantastic dialogues. The next thing I want to learn is how to plot, but that I can only learn once having read the entire book because plot works backwards -- it is only when you've read the last line, that the narrative falls into place retroactively and the beauty of the pattern becomes apparent.