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A Writer’s Toolbox–Point of View
Josh asked me about writing from a cat’s point of view in a comment on my Christmas story. Before I start talking about that, let me give you a warning–some people really don’t like “seeing behind the magician’s curtain”. If this is the case for you, keep going down the page and read about crooked governors and vitamin suppliments–I won’t mind. Here’s a disclaimer, too: I have had exactly one Rhetoric class and that was nearly forty years ago. The mechanics of my writing is to a college-trained person as a shade-tree hot rodder is to a guy working at Indianapolis. My work is all seat-of-the-pants stuff, making it up as I go along, so your mileage may vary.
That said, my stories, for me, come in two categories–ones that are easy to write and ones that are like pulling teeth. There doesn’t seem to be any relationship between the difficulty and how good they end up being–my gay werewolf story was painfully difficult, yet it is one of the best things I’ve ever written. On the other hand, there’s a short-short fairy tale that I wrote in two hours that ended up leaving audiences saying, “what the hell is he talking about?” I still haven’t found a way to end that one successfully. Read more…