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Aug. 7th, 2016 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI’ve written more than a thousand words this afternoon toward making that story that needed revision work. I think I may have to double its length in order to make it comprehensible to people who aren’t me. I’ve also written about five hundred words of other stuff.
I’m pretty sure that I’m writing Merlin way out of character because every time I look at the books, I’m struck by him being very intelligent but having less common sense and initiative than God gave a turnip. Everything in his books just kind of happens to him. Which makes more sense when one realizes that Zelazny really was just making things up as he went along, throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck.
At any rate, I get frustrated with the idea that Merlin’s entirely passive and naive, and I’m writing in reaction to that. I could see, more, him wanting people to think he is because it’s less likely that he’ll end up with a knife in his back that way, and I can kind of get Watsonian with it by considering that his books are him telling Corwin his story and that Corwin’s one of the people he wants to have believe that he’s not a threat. But that doesn’t actually explain the choices he makes in canon, the things that could be verified— or not—with third parties.
I’m pretty sure that I’m writing Merlin way out of character because every time I look at the books, I’m struck by him being very intelligent but having less common sense and initiative than God gave a turnip. Everything in his books just kind of happens to him. Which makes more sense when one realizes that Zelazny really was just making things up as he went along, throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck.
At any rate, I get frustrated with the idea that Merlin’s entirely passive and naive, and I’m writing in reaction to that. I could see, more, him wanting people to think he is because it’s less likely that he’ll end up with a knife in his back that way, and I can kind of get Watsonian with it by considering that his books are him telling Corwin his story and that Corwin’s one of the people he wants to have believe that he’s not a threat. But that doesn’t actually explain the choices he makes in canon, the things that could be verified— or not—with third parties.
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Date: 2016-08-07 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-08 01:57 am (UTC)I'm kind of astonished by it because it's not generally how my writing works.