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May. 8th, 2011 06:10 pmOne of the minor problems that besets my life is lack of critical and emotional reaction to fiction. Very often I can see some major betrayal of a beloved character on TV and not react at all to the earth-rending shock and upheaval to everything I had believed about the characters up to that point.
Couple that with a passive disengagement of the parts of my brain that are used to spot plot holes and predict obvious plot twists and it makes me a terrible critic and an even worse fiction writer.
Obviously this isn't in keeping with my own particular ... idiom, so I have been trying to overcome it. Consequently I have been trying to cultivate and carry around in my head my own thick Northern woman who exclaims, "I can't believe that me!" every time something dramatic happens. I think it's helping, though I'm starting to wish I could slap the bitch.
Couple that with a passive disengagement of the parts of my brain that are used to spot plot holes and predict obvious plot twists and it makes me a terrible critic and an even worse fiction writer.
Obviously this isn't in keeping with my own particular ... idiom, so I have been trying to overcome it. Consequently I have been trying to cultivate and carry around in my head my own thick Northern woman who exclaims, "I can't believe that me!" every time something dramatic happens. I think it's helping, though I'm starting to wish I could slap the bitch.
