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kmoI thought this post, "The Silencing of Catelyn Stark" expressed perfectly many of the feelings I (and others) have had regarding how the tv writers have chosen to portray Catelyn's character. Catelyn isn't even my favorite, but I've been hurt by what I've seen as a dumbing down of her character. I also think she suffers from what others have termed the "Skyler White Effect"- where women (often wives and mothers) who stand up to the male anti-hero's fun anti-heroing (selling meth, being a serial killer, trying to become King in the North) are universally hated by fandom as shrews and wet blankets. Not just Catelyn and Skyler but also Carmela Soprano, Betty and Megan Draper, Rita from Dexter, even Kima from s5 of The Wire fall victim to this trope. Anywho, it's an interesting article and the comments are interesting, too. While I've really enjoyed the complexity GoT has brought to Margaery, Melisandre, Brienne, and Cersei, I feel like it often tends to fall back on cliched tropes as shorthand for telling a story- especially the whole mess in the Riverlands that is Robb, Catelyn and Talisa.
Help me procrastinate today with this Writing Process meme stolen fromlikeadeuce
Pick one of my fics and a question (or questions) and I'll tell you:
1. What part was most difficult?
2. What are you most proud of?
3. What's a reference you made no one has picked up on yet?
4. What's a bit that sums up your take on a character?
5. Favorite line(s) of dialogue?
6. Favorite lines(s) of prose?
7. Were there any points where you were trying to do something specific with sound, vocabulary, or rhythm?
8. How many drafts did the work go through?
9. Were you listening to anything while writing the fic? If so, what?
10. Imagery that is important to the fic, either while composing or in the fic itself?
11. What were you most worried about during the composition?
12. How do you want readers to react to this fic?
13. What did you want them to take away from it?
14. What inspired this fic?
15. If you used a beta, what did you agree or disagree on?
16. Did anything surprise you during the writing?
17. Were any parts written under the influence Unless coffee counts, I never drink and write!
Help me procrastinate today with this Writing Process meme stolen from
likeadeuce Pick one of my fics and a question (or questions) and I'll tell you:
1. What part was most difficult?
2. What are you most proud of?
3. What's a reference you made no one has picked up on yet?
4. What's a bit that sums up your take on a character?
5. Favorite line(s) of dialogue?
6. Favorite lines(s) of prose?
7. Were there any points where you were trying to do something specific with sound, vocabulary, or rhythm?
8. How many drafts did the work go through?
9. Were you listening to anything while writing the fic? If so, what?
10. Imagery that is important to the fic, either while composing or in the fic itself?
11. What were you most worried about during the composition?
12. How do you want readers to react to this fic?
13. What did you want them to take away from it?
14. What inspired this fic?
15. If you used a beta, what did you agree or disagree on?
16. Did anything surprise you during the writing?
17. Were any parts written under the influence Unless coffee counts, I never drink and write!
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Date: 2013-06-20 03:32 am (UTC)#1- what was most difficult:
i really get stuck when it comes to transitional chapters and parts of the stories. i can get really hung up. it's like i hit a wall. so chapter 6, when Carmen is staking out the National Gallery was really hard to write. it was also hard to make her deduction seem plausible.
#5- favorite dialogue
i'm really fond of this dialogue between Suhara and Carmen at the end of chapter one:
"Is it danger that you seek? Or escape?"
Carmen said nothing. Her heart pounded in her chest, pulsing red. Both.
I also love the last line. Perfect last words.
#7- sound, vocabulary, etc:
i'm not super conscious about this all the time. but in this sentence from chapter 7, i used the alteration and repeated G and E sounds to try to evoke a dream-like state, almost like Carmen really was floating on air.
"Carmen glided along the empty hallways and exhibit rooms with a ghostly grace."
there are also frequent references to the color red in almost every chapter. i also used words like "nobody" and "nowhere" and "somebody" and "somewhere" to subtly play with the title.