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May. 11th, 2009 12:35 pmNow I have to finish Dust 13; I just figured out how to do Dust 14 and it's really cool.
One of the parts of Dust that I was trying to work with having multiple POVs is not overlapping POVs of events. (Dust 5 is a good example -- it was a Susan POV, but it could just as easily have been anyone else's POV: Edmund's, Peter's, Lucy's, Tirian's, Jill's, Eustace's.) When everyone's in the same place, that's fairly easy to do. When they're not -- the hard part is trying to figure out what minutiae to cover and what to leave out because it doesn't advance the plot or the characters at all. (This is one of the reasons that Dust 11.5 wasn't part of Dust 12, despite the fact that it was barrels of fun and there were some really awesome moments there.) There have been several different ways I could do Dust 14, and I was thinking it would have to be two chapters -- a Eustace POV and a Peter POV, but I think I might just be able to make it into one, depending on where I start the chapter. (Because fun as it would be, and as lovely for the worldbuilding, we probably don't need the breakfast conversation that follows the awkward pause after, "It must be awfully good luck to have the King of Summer and the Queen of Spring pass the night in your home." Susan blushes, Peter coughs, and the people they're with look some combination of embarrassed and blessed.)
But first I have to finish Dust 13.
One of the parts of Dust that I was trying to work with having multiple POVs is not overlapping POVs of events. (Dust 5 is a good example -- it was a Susan POV, but it could just as easily have been anyone else's POV: Edmund's, Peter's, Lucy's, Tirian's, Jill's, Eustace's.) When everyone's in the same place, that's fairly easy to do. When they're not -- the hard part is trying to figure out what minutiae to cover and what to leave out because it doesn't advance the plot or the characters at all. (This is one of the reasons that Dust 11.5 wasn't part of Dust 12, despite the fact that it was barrels of fun and there were some really awesome moments there.) There have been several different ways I could do Dust 14, and I was thinking it would have to be two chapters -- a Eustace POV and a Peter POV, but I think I might just be able to make it into one, depending on where I start the chapter. (Because fun as it would be, and as lovely for the worldbuilding, we probably don't need the breakfast conversation that follows the awkward pause after, "It must be awfully good luck to have the King of Summer and the Queen of Spring pass the night in your home." Susan blushes, Peter coughs, and the people they're with look some combination of embarrassed and blessed.)
But first I have to finish Dust 13.