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That's something, I suppose.
Sep. 15th, 2007 10:50 amI've gone from "I'm not sure I can even salvage this story anymore, dammit" to "I think I can make it work if I swap it all back to third person limited." I was able to go through it several times in between races last night (Hubby came in third! Yay!) and make editing passes. Using third person throughout seems to be my best bet.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that it's still an incredibly short story that swaps back and forth between the viewpoints of the werewolf and the alien--and goes out to omniscient for one sentence. And this might break some sort of rule or other about keeping it all in one POV. However, rules were made to be broken, and the story calls for it, so there. I mean, hey, bending genres anyway. Rules? Frell the rules. As long as the readers aren't confuzzled, who cares? Well, editors might. *chants to self: serve the story, not the market; serve the story, not the market*
What I really need to do is start reading short stories and watching for things like VP switches. The problem is that I start reading for pleasure, and then I forget to try to pick up on stuff like that. I really need to work on the whole "reading for more than the story" thing.
In drag racing, you guys know about the light tree that counts down from yellow to green, right? And if you go before it goes green, you "red-light" and that's an automatic loss. A "perfect light" is .000, which means the driver leaves the line just at the moment it goes green. Last night, the Hubby lost his last race by going -.001 at the light. That's right, folks. He red-lit by one one-thousandths of a second.
And then his car ran too quick too, but that's neither here nor there; if he hadn't red-lit, he probably would have hit the brakes at the end and avoided that. The weather was so squirrelly last night that lots of drivers were having problems at both ends of the track.
In other news, OJ Simpson continues to be made of LOSE and FAIL. Good lord.
Of course, that doesn't change the fact that it's still an incredibly short story that swaps back and forth between the viewpoints of the werewolf and the alien--and goes out to omniscient for one sentence. And this might break some sort of rule or other about keeping it all in one POV. However, rules were made to be broken, and the story calls for it, so there. I mean, hey, bending genres anyway. Rules? Frell the rules. As long as the readers aren't confuzzled, who cares? Well, editors might. *chants to self: serve the story, not the market; serve the story, not the market*
What I really need to do is start reading short stories and watching for things like VP switches. The problem is that I start reading for pleasure, and then I forget to try to pick up on stuff like that. I really need to work on the whole "reading for more than the story" thing.
In drag racing, you guys know about the light tree that counts down from yellow to green, right? And if you go before it goes green, you "red-light" and that's an automatic loss. A "perfect light" is .000, which means the driver leaves the line just at the moment it goes green. Last night, the Hubby lost his last race by going -.001 at the light. That's right, folks. He red-lit by one one-thousandths of a second.
And then his car ran too quick too, but that's neither here nor there; if he hadn't red-lit, he probably would have hit the brakes at the end and avoided that. The weather was so squirrelly last night that lots of drivers were having problems at both ends of the track.
In other news, OJ Simpson continues to be made of LOSE and FAIL. Good lord.
