Tavia Chalcraft wrote:
Personally, as a writer, I'd prefer to use other ways of gaining closeness to the character, the easiest being to use their point of view -- if you want to expose Avon's inner child then just walk right into his head and expose it....
Hm. Well, I'm not really a fan of H/C. But the problem with exposing the inner man - most people edit their thoughts before they voice them (and of course with B7 it's gone through the script editor as well <g>). Which leaves the author the choice of editing the character's thoughts to make them sound like external voice - thereby removing the closeness again - or writing what one thinks the inner dialogue actually is - and risk rendering the character's voice unrecognizable to the reader. It's IMHO a bit tricky. Mostly, I prefer characterization to come through actions and dialogue.
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