Odds and ends

[luzula]

So, if anyone has a Dreamwidth invite, I'd love to have it. I'm not particularly attached to LJ, and if the move is going to happen some time, even if it's happening slowly, I might as well get myself an account.

I signed up for ficfinishing to finish my recently started Fraser/Victoria story. I didn't realize until I started writing it what a relief it is to be back in Fraser POV! A lot of stories I've worked on recently have been in other people's POV, and writing Fraser POV again feels like coming home or something.

Otherwise, I'm podficcing a lot. It's interesting to record in other fandoms, and if you get less feedback in rare fandoms, occasionally you get someone who's just overjoyed to have a story in their obscure fandom. Which is fun.

The boy and I have been listening to podcasts of a Swedish translation of the Kalevala (a Finnish mythological epic poem), which is a lot of fun. It's ridiculously patriarchal, but also beautifully poetic and occasionally hilarious. It's read by a Finnish-Swedish actress whose reading is to die for. Also, Finnish-Swedish is such a lovely dialect (possibly only surpassed by Swedish spoken with an Icelandic accent. Yum.)

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[nos4a2no9.livejournal.com]

I know JUST what you mean re: getting back into a Fraser POV. Whenever I'm feeling really blocked or frustrated with a story, I go and work on my first-person Fraser POV story, and the words begin to flow smoothly. It's a strange thing, isn't it, when you find you really have an "ear" for a certain character?

[luzula]

For me, I think it has something to do with the fact that I mostly read English rather than hear/speak it. Ray K's POV is a lot more colloquial and closer to spoken English, which makes it harder for me. But also, Fraser is the character I identify with most, so that probably comes into it as well.