donutsweeper

Year in review, as seen around LJ/DW

( general stats and some answered questions, altered for what makes sense for me to compile )

Since sometimes motivation is hard to come by here is a list of prompts, tables and list comms I sometimes troll to see if anything jumps out and gets the old muse interested.

25moments and its prompt table

15_song_titles and its song title prompt list

36_plots and its prompt table

flashslash Tuesday prompts of 4 words to be written in 8 minutes.

50scenes and its prompt table

prompted_quill daily, weekly and monthly prompts

alphabetasoup and its word lists (the comm does not appear to be accepting new claims but the lists are nice)

When you have a scene with several characters in it I feel I a little more careful making it obvious as who is saying what.

Sometimes I manage this by using the character's movements:

"I don't know, Jack." Owen put his feet on the desk. "Seems to easy to me."

But a lot of the times I am stuck with:

"So what's next?" Jack asked.

"We could cross reference the new data with information from the archives," Ianto suggested.

"I can run another scan," Tosh offered, "See if I missed anything?"

"We order pizza. I'm hungry," Owen said.

etc, etc.

Do you find that annoying? Is it worse or better to use 'said' over and over or would you rather the word varied? Is there another way to do it?

Just a question, and I'm not sure of the correct terminology here, but when reading (or writing), do you prefer a tight 3rd person POV  (where all events are seen and interpreted through one character's eyes) or switching between people's 3rd person POV with obvious page breaks or markers to show the new POV?

For example- my entire Charming the Pants off the Pashahads SGA/Jack crossover is told from Sheppard's POV, there is no scene where we see what Jack thinks about falling into the Pegasus Galaxy.  At points there are Sheppard's interpretation of Jack's actions (he notices a hedged answer, an avoided question, but doesn't know why Jack  answered that way).  If it had been written with switching POV's there could be the scene from Shep's perspective, noticing what he notices and wondering about it, followed by the same scene retold from Jack's, where he explained the reasons for saying what he did.  There also could have been scenes left out from the story the way I told it- I never did explain how Jack managed to get his hands on the Pashahads (because Sheppard wasn't there and wouldn't know).

I've been noticing more and more of the latter showing up in stories lately.  Presuming this babble actually makes sense to anyone, do you notice the difference between those types of POV styles and do you like one more than the other?