Lobelia the adverbially eclectic

Fandom: Regency in Germany, to wit: Franzosenzeit
Characters: Gottlieb and other origs
Extracts from: A literary lady's travel guide (cross-over character from the Travelogue fandom)
No canonical or fanonical characters were harmed in the making of this snippet.

( Under the cut, thou wilt find / writing of the experimental kind )End of cut text.

As ever, am turning over in my mind those twin sacred cows of fanfic: "show not tell" and "characterisation". Those who've been following my musings on these subjects will know that I don't even know what exactly these two dicta refer to nor if they even exist.

Here's an attempt to grasp the nettle by typing my way through it:

( ficlettes )

Hm. Which just goes to show that no element can be isolated. Invariably, any bit of writing, no matter how short, involves pov, tense, narrative level, subjective and objective narration, description and action... and so forth and so forth. And, not to forget, Williamson Jefferson and Henderson.

Before I had even had coffee, demelzagirl zapped me with some demcartean txt-fb on my Header. This prompted musings on

( on objective vs subjective pov )