Specific Questions About the Book for Dave

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faithinfiction	Der F- Answer	#21	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/12/05 10:06:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* What consideration did you give alternate p.o.v.s for the story? For instance, Ian telling the story first-person rather than third-? Or sections told from Rebecca's or Hanover's or other characters' perspectives? Would you take the same approach today? Personally, I don't think that POV is the problem. It's Ian's story. I wanted it filtered through his perspective. Why 3rd person-limited rather than first? To give us a little distance from him. I wanted to be able to observe Ian doing things rather than hearing it through is own words. So, yes, in general I'd write in the same POV. Now, I'd tackle those subplots differently and/or wrap things up differently. But those things can be done through Ian's POV.
faithinfiction	Answer to Janice's ?	#22	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/12/05 10:13:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* After rereading your book, how much of your "soul" do you see portrayed there? It's obviously from me, but I'd be wary of trying to read too deeply into my psyche from it. I'm not an autobiographical writer. My own life is fairly even-keeled and boring so I'm not "slitting a wrist" to write my book. (A quick story: I got married in the middle of writing this book. My wife was forever trying to tease out deep meanings about our relationship from Ian and Rebecca. I kept looking at her and saying, "They're characters." She never truly believed me, I don't think.) A) This is why the "imaginative" part is so crucial to me. If writing isn't therapeutic or carthatic, than it needs to be engaging and interesting. B) That said, the themes I tackle are ones that interest me personally. Obviously the blog validates that I've spent a good deal of time thinking about art and faith.
ZanesMilkMachine	Re: Answer to Janice's ?	#23	[-]
Posts: 494 (10/12/05 20:41:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Ok, first thing's first: *Quote:* 1. The thing with the "voice" (related in particular to dialogue) comes from my long-standing bias against tons of dialogue. See Michelle waving to the pages of dialogue floating gently in the breeze as she tosses them out the window. LOL I like dialogue. Does that mean I need to find a new board? And the soul thing: When I was talking about "soul" I didn't necessarily mean events in life. I really meant that I could tell that Dave the person doesn't get worked up over much of anything. Just like Ian. Skipping the climaxes was telltale. You could also tell that along with being docile and relaxed, comes emotional detatchment. I can see that there's probably not a lot of conflict in your life (or wasn't much conflict at the time) and when coflict arises, it probably doesn't amount to a screaming and yelling match. (Or throwing your spouse's cowboy boot into the wall. And watching it stay there. Suspended in drywall.) Not that I'd know anything about that, of course. Reading ES seemed to tell me you didn't/don't stress out. I've been stalked by my former neighbor/local pedophile and I think I smoked 2 packs a day and didn't sleep a wink for a month. And I'm a tough cookie. Intentional or not, it doesn't appear that you've ever been truly scared out of your wits. I know the story wasn't geared towards the fear factor, but I just didn't feel it. Ian's fear seemed forced. He didn't do the usual things people do when they're scared and he also didn't do the silly and downright stupid things people do when they're scared. But since the story wasn't about that fear, I suppose it doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Maybe I just read too much into everything. LOL But that's just me and my imagination. We tend to analyze everything and sometimes we get carried away! We just can't help it! ************* Blog: Just a Minute
Gods Curmudgeon	Re: Specific Questions About the Book for Dave	#24	[-]
Posts: 214 (10/12/05 23:05:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Dave, I am having a hard time believing that Howard doesnt have a book of his own. Have you any plans? I bet it would be a lot of fun! Curm The Curmudgeon's Rant
faithinfiction	Sequel plans	#25	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/13/05 05:17:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	It's always a bad idea to write a sequel to a book that didn't sell well in the first place. Not to be purely capitalistic but the work involved in putting together a novel about these characters (whom I enjoy deeply, let it be stated) versus the payoff I know I'd receive. There wouldn't be correlation. I don't write for the money but since I have other ideas that appear to be more marketable...alas. The evil world of editing and marketing has corrupted my pure artistic spirit.
TL Hines	Re: Sequel plans	#26	[-]
Posts: 112 (10/13/05 07:00:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* The evil world of editing and marketing has corrupted my pure artistic spirit. Welcome to the Dark Side, Dave. We don't get to think as much about artsy-fartsy things such as "theme" and "voice" over here in marketing. But we get to use exclamation points, and the coffee's pretty good. ----------------- TL Hines www.tlhines.com
thewritingmom	Re: Specific Questions About the Book for Dave	#27	[-]
Posts: 2 (10/13/05 12:12:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Maybe somebody has already posted this and I missed it...but I'm curious if ES was the inspiration for Rene Gutteridge's "Boo" (inspirational comedy/romance) that starts off the exact same way- the main character is a horror writer searching for the right words after becoming a Christian.
faithinfiction	Boo	#28	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/13/05 13:24:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Strange but at the time Rene was writing for us. Ghostwriter and Troubled Waters are BHP books. She submitted "Boo" as an idea as we were in the midst of preparing ES and so we turned it down and went with Troubled Waters instead. She moved onto Waterbook with Boo and actually launched a horror writer novel with sequels that has sold. (It's comic, however.) We probably should have just signed it up and gone with it three seasons later but there was consternation about ONE horror writer novel at the time, let alonen two. Plus, Waterbrook gave it a truly fantastic cover (one of the best I've seen in CBA) and she's done well with it. So, nope, Rene was inspired separately but close to the same time.
JaniceLaQuiere	Craft questions	#29	[-]
Posts: 143 (10/13/05 15:46:08) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Now that you've had the opportunity to revisit your ancient manuscript <g>, from a "craft" persepective, what are the top three things you wish you could go back and change? And what are the top three things that you're most satisfied with? (The places where you surprise yourself now, with how well your wrote back then.)
faithinfiction	Changes	#30	[-]
Posts: 376 (10/14/05 11:08:02) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Three things I'd work on: 1. I'd back off on some of the thematic/symbolic elements. 2. Sustain the suspense thread more fully, and offer a more statisfying conclusion to it. 3. Fix the dangling threads that came from planning theoretical sequels. Three things I'd keep: 1. Howard Kepler's photo albums. 2. Ty Caller and his Connecticut desert. 3. Ian's POV
gina burgess	Re: Changes	#31	[-]
Posts: 176 (10/15/05 11:46:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Please keep Kyle the reporter!
JediQB	Re: Changes	#32	[-]
Posts: 160 (10/15/05 16:42:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Why Utah? I guess the desert area around Zion is a good inspiration for the "dry bones". I tend to NOT relate Utah to a place to find oneself spiritually, as I live in southern Idaho, and I deal with a certain dominant religious group on such a regular basis. Since they are more prominent in Utah, the place gets a bad rap unfortunately. (I understand there is no place beyond God's reach, but we all have those places we'd rather not be, I think.) Anyway, I truly am curious if there is a specific inspiration, or it just happened. Jason

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