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Fiction Writing: Carnival Rough Draft
Oct. 30th, 2011 10:08 pm( Super-Meta Second-Person Rough Draft )
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Coming along much better than the first. I'm actually seeing somewhere to go with this. It's basically a story about someone become a writer, first by using writing as a crutch to fight off the world, then by using it as a way to let someone in. First his world gets taken over by a bunch of characters, transforming his inner world into something completely different. Then he realizes that this is helping him, and he uses it to keep from becoming depressed and killing himself. Then he starts to find a way to use his characters, working at the antique store, and Sebastian finally convinces him to put his paintings on display. Then Violet comes in with her family, and sees the paintings, and he opens up to her, and he has a friend. And then his characters recede into the background, because he doesn't need them as desperately anymore.
So yes, basically I'm writing a fictionalized, surreal autobiography about my relationship with writing. That's why I need to write this in second person. It's something I need to write, to express, what I need to tell people, but it can't be me, it's got to be a character or else I'll get too emotionally close. I'm using experience to guide my story, not using my story to record my experience.
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Coming along much better than the first. I'm actually seeing somewhere to go with this. It's basically a story about someone become a writer, first by using writing as a crutch to fight off the world, then by using it as a way to let someone in. First his world gets taken over by a bunch of characters, transforming his inner world into something completely different. Then he realizes that this is helping him, and he uses it to keep from becoming depressed and killing himself. Then he starts to find a way to use his characters, working at the antique store, and Sebastian finally convinces him to put his paintings on display. Then Violet comes in with her family, and sees the paintings, and he opens up to her, and he has a friend. And then his characters recede into the background, because he doesn't need them as desperately anymore.
So yes, basically I'm writing a fictionalized, surreal autobiography about my relationship with writing. That's why I need to write this in second person. It's something I need to write, to express, what I need to tell people, but it can't be me, it's got to be a character or else I'll get too emotionally close. I'm using experience to guide my story, not using my story to record my experience.
