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Jul. 5th, 2019 10:35 amHELP I AM DYING OF EXPOSITION but also it is necessary for stringing together narratives spanning thousands of years
Writing about elves is hard.
Ooh! But I am trying to write about baby Legolas now! Which is also hard because I’m bad at children, but I’m having fun trying to explore his childhood. Of course I’m doing it through a very Laerwen-centric lens, but I think I also got some insight into a background story I got stuck on a year ago!
I love that all these details are clicking together in my mind, but it’s very hard to write them without just “telling” (rather than showing) all of them. It’s very easy to lapse into telling in present tense, but that’s the tense the story wants, so... I dunno.
Thanks for letting me complain about all this!
Writing about elves is hard.
Ooh! But I am trying to write about baby Legolas now! Which is also hard because I’m bad at children, but I’m having fun trying to explore his childhood. Of course I’m doing it through a very Laerwen-centric lens, but I think I also got some insight into a background story I got stuck on a year ago!
I love that all these details are clicking together in my mind, but it’s very hard to write them without just “telling” (rather than showing) all of them. It’s very easy to lapse into telling in present tense, but that’s the tense the story wants, so... I dunno.
Thanks for letting me complain about all this!
