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I've had a plot bunny nibbling for a few months, insisting that I want to tell the story of how Narcissa persuaded Lucius to send Draco to Hogwarts. I know what I want to say, but I'm not sure how to frame it.
After playing with the idea of using the three Malfoy PoVs in different parts of the story, I think I've settled on telling it from Narcissa's PoV, and I've got a good sense of her voice and her mood as she looks back on the incident. But I'm worried that it'll read like one of those artificially confessional monologues. I know first-person-past stories are not necessarily monologues, and the focus of mine will be on plot more than soul-searching, but is that enough? Do first-person narratives need to justify why and to whom the narrator is speaking?
My other thought would be to have Rita Skeeter interview her (yes, I do have a reason for Narcissa to consent to this), but there's a lot that I want to say that Narcissa would not say in that situation, so I'm left with having her think it (though it could be difficult to weave it all in) or using the interview to trigger some reflection in Narcissa after Rita leaves.
I did try writing the first couple of paragraphs both ways, and while I like the interaction between the two of them, it breaks the flow and creates some dissonance between humour and melancholy. Perhaps that clash could work quite well, but I'm not sure whether it would dilute the main point too much.
Anyone got any thoughts? ;)
On a more humorous note, I took this Sorting quiz, and it put me in Gryffindor.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Perhaps I've been spending too much time in Hermione headspace (though [lack of] progress on the next Invictus chapter would suggest the opposite).
I have yet to find a sorting quiz that doesn't make the intent of each possible answer far too obvious. Anyone know of a good one?
After playing with the idea of using the three Malfoy PoVs in different parts of the story, I think I've settled on telling it from Narcissa's PoV, and I've got a good sense of her voice and her mood as she looks back on the incident. But I'm worried that it'll read like one of those artificially confessional monologues. I know first-person-past stories are not necessarily monologues, and the focus of mine will be on plot more than soul-searching, but is that enough? Do first-person narratives need to justify why and to whom the narrator is speaking?
My other thought would be to have Rita Skeeter interview her (yes, I do have a reason for Narcissa to consent to this), but there's a lot that I want to say that Narcissa would not say in that situation, so I'm left with having her think it (though it could be difficult to weave it all in) or using the interview to trigger some reflection in Narcissa after Rita leaves.
I did try writing the first couple of paragraphs both ways, and while I like the interaction between the two of them, it breaks the flow and creates some dissonance between humour and melancholy. Perhaps that clash could work quite well, but I'm not sure whether it would dilute the main point too much.
Anyone got any thoughts? ;)
On a more humorous note, I took this Sorting quiz, and it put me in Gryffindor.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Perhaps I've been spending too much time in Hermione headspace (though [lack of] progress on the next Invictus chapter would suggest the opposite).
I have yet to find a sorting quiz that doesn't make the intent of each possible answer far too obvious. Anyone know of a good one?
