Am Watching "The Wings of a Dove"

[erastes]

And I think I know why this film never really worked, and that's because of  Linus's portrayal.  Bonham-Carter is surprisingly good, but I was never convinced by Linus. I was so blown over by the book, it's deep and nasty - more nasty than I found a lot of other James - but Roche just didn't do it for me - despite the stellar cast!

I did about 730 words today. Not really enough but words I'm more happy with than I was in the first chapter. Gah! I'm finding it so hard to return to 3rd person after a couple of years in the first person.  It seems so remote and  stodgy. I could quite happily be seduced into writing nothing else  but 1st person for the rest of my life and then - yanno? Do you believe in fate?  I had a HUGE pile of books to start on yesterday - all gay lit - and I picked out "A Single Man" by Christopher Isherwood and  - BAM - there's the learning curve. Writing in the third person but bloody hell - so well done I could weep. Not all 3rd person has to be "he woke up and..."

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Isherwood!!

[ermyne.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Isherwood makes me just sit with mouth agape in wonder. The ultimate artfulness: it seems utterly effortless. But encouraging, you know - he spent his whole career writing first-person narrative and I think A Single Man was his first third-person novel. He's always rabbiting in his letters how much easier he found it to write first-person. Not that you can tell! So there's hope for us all. Must reread that. There's something about Issyvoo that fires me up to write myself. Perhaps the delusion, "See how easy it is!"

Re: Isherwood!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

His first 3rd person? Wow. That's probably WHY it feels as deep as a first person. It's wonderful.