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truepennyJust for the record, I'll keep answering questions as long as people keep asking them. Also, if you want to ask more than one question, that is TOTALLY okay.
Q: if you HAD to pick a single pov to write the DoL, which of the protagonist's would it be and why? How about someone else's?
A: First of all, if I only had one PoV, they would be radically different books, since the reason I have multiple PoVs in the first place is because (a.) no one protagonist sees enough of the plot for it to make sense and (b.) each protagonist has his or her own story, although Felix and Mildmay's become progressively intertwined. (That may, come to think of it, be part of the reason why books 3 and 4 spawned third narrators: so that we could have more than one story line.)
However, that said, in my heart, these books belong to Felix. I realize that many of my readers will passionately disagree, and that's okay.
Q: Are you having fun?
A: Yeah, actually. I like my life.
Q: What is your favorite thing about the book?
A: The mammoth.
Q: Which was your favorite of the series to write, and which had the most fun moments for you?
A: As the man in the Charles Addams cartoon says, "You see, children, I hate you both in quite different ways."
I loved writing the bits in The Virtu and The Mirador where we get to go wandering around in the abandoned levels of the Mirador.
Q: In a cage match, who wins, Malkar Gennadion or Vey Coruscant?
A: Malkar. This question required even less thought than the one about the coolest place I've ever been. *g*
Q: Is there a solid, static ending? As in, not open-ended?
A: This one actually puzzles me a good deal, because the only way to have a static ending is for everyone to die. (Which, no, is not how Corambis ends--I consider it rankest cheating to kill a first-person narrator.) However, I did my best to resolve all of the major issues of the series and to make the book satisfying in and of itself.
Q: I was wondering if you have any examples of what Mildmay and Felix's accents sound like. For Mildmay I have a pretty distinct voice in my head, but I don't have one for Felix.
As I've said before, Mildmay's dialect is based on the mid-South dialect of the area I grew up in, specifically--especially for the obscenities--the kids I went to high school with. (C'mon, didn't everybody swear like a Hell's Angel in high school?) Felix (and everybody else in the Mirador, except people like Vida and Thaddeus who are foreigners, of course) should sound like an upper class American--like Hollywood actors sound if they aren't deliberately assuming An Accent. When I do readings, I code-switch between Mildmay's accent and, for Felix, my normal way of speaking.
Felix does, very occasionally, slip.
And, yes, if I ever get the technology for podcasts, I will put a reading up on my site.
[To ask your question, go here.]
Q: if you HAD to pick a single pov to write the DoL, which of the protagonist's would it be and why? How about someone else's?
A: First of all, if I only had one PoV, they would be radically different books, since the reason I have multiple PoVs in the first place is because (a.) no one protagonist sees enough of the plot for it to make sense and (b.) each protagonist has his or her own story, although Felix and Mildmay's become progressively intertwined. (That may, come to think of it, be part of the reason why books 3 and 4 spawned third narrators: so that we could have more than one story line.)
However, that said, in my heart, these books belong to Felix. I realize that many of my readers will passionately disagree, and that's okay.
Q: Are you having fun?
A: Yeah, actually. I like my life.
Q: What is your favorite thing about the book?
A: The mammoth.
Q: Which was your favorite of the series to write, and which had the most fun moments for you?
A: As the man in the Charles Addams cartoon says, "You see, children, I hate you both in quite different ways."
I loved writing the bits in The Virtu and The Mirador where we get to go wandering around in the abandoned levels of the Mirador.
Q: In a cage match, who wins, Malkar Gennadion or Vey Coruscant?
A: Malkar. This question required even less thought than the one about the coolest place I've ever been. *g*
Q: Is there a solid, static ending? As in, not open-ended?
A: This one actually puzzles me a good deal, because the only way to have a static ending is for everyone to die. (Which, no, is not how Corambis ends--I consider it rankest cheating to kill a first-person narrator.) However, I did my best to resolve all of the major issues of the series and to make the book satisfying in and of itself.
Q: I was wondering if you have any examples of what Mildmay and Felix's accents sound like. For Mildmay I have a pretty distinct voice in my head, but I don't have one for Felix.
As I've said before, Mildmay's dialect is based on the mid-South dialect of the area I grew up in, specifically--especially for the obscenities--the kids I went to high school with. (C'mon, didn't everybody swear like a Hell's Angel in high school?) Felix (and everybody else in the Mirador, except people like Vida and Thaddeus who are foreigners, of course) should sound like an upper class American--like Hollywood actors sound if they aren't deliberately assuming An Accent. When I do readings, I code-switch between Mildmay's accent and, for Felix, my normal way of speaking.
Felix does, very occasionally, slip.
And, yes, if I ever get the technology for podcasts, I will put a reading up on my site.
[To ask your question, go here.]
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Date: 2008-08-20 11:31 am (UTC)To some extent it depends on whose agenda is being serviced by the story. While Mildmay goes off and does his own thing at various points, the story still primarily revolves around Felix's actions, issues and needs (a trivial comparison: in the final season of Farscape D'Argo is voted as captain of Moya, but it is still John's agenda that drives the plot).
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Date: 2008-08-20 02:21 pm (UTC)(Sorry, I cannot resist talking about Farscape.)
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Date: 2008-08-20 03:01 pm (UTC)I agree with what you are saying about heroes, though in fairness my point was that whatever happens John remains the protagonist (he's way too broken to be the hero.)
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Date: 2008-08-20 08:07 pm (UTC)