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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Even a full omniscient third should have some distinctive voice to it that varies with the needs of the story, if you're doing it right.

Like I'm not saying the writer's developed style is irrelevant, but if the narrative voice is blandly identical in everything you write, rather than being part of how you build the story, that's not. Good?

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but the point is, if you're doing omniscient third it doesn't matter whether the camera is tracking Valjean's POV or Javert's POV, because the narrator is always Victor Hugo.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

The narrator is Victor Hugo as the Les Mis narrator, who is distinguishable from the Ninety-Three narrator or the Toilers of the Sea narrator. Like we call it "Victor Hugo pastiche" (because they are all clearly him!) but if I wrote Les Mis fic as Toilers pastiche, you could tell.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Mmm, could you? Ninety-Three is less Hugolian most of the time (or rather, poor Gauvain gets to be the mouthpiece for Hugo's Sewage Feels rather than letting the narrator expound upon them), but I feel like the Les Mis and Toilers narrators differ mainly in their chosen topics, not in their voice. If you went up to the Les Mis narrator and were like "Okay, tell me all your thoughts on octopi", I feel like you'd get something that was more or less the pieuvre chapter from Toilers.

Like, the Toilers narrator is possibly the Les Mis narrator after a few hits from a bong, but it's clearly the same dude. (Whereas I think you could make a decent case that the NDdP and Ninety-Three narrators are not.)

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

nc

Like, the Toilers narrator is possibly the Les Mis narrator after a few hits from a bong, but it's clearly the same dude.

I agree, and also this is my favorite thing from this entire coal post so far.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Next time someone nominates Ninety-Three it should be with Hugo's voice as a character, is what I'm hearing. ;)

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom: Ninety-Three

Characters:

Gauvain
Cimourdain
The Narrator (Victor Hugo)
The Narrator from Les Mis/Toilers who showed up to guest-write that one tower vs. guillotine chapter (also Victor Hugo)

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

dc

XD I would totally request that.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

nerds