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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Yes, it is easier to become the character. This chap I'm writing now, I want to get into his head. But- I need to switch POVs. If it were a novel, I might have tried to do some 1st person and some 3rd person but it's a novella and I think it will be too crowded to do that.

No-one's full of shit, it's always fascinating to see other people's views.