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A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.

When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.

fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.

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sirius is definitely putting werewolf remus on the hear me out cake

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why are prongsfoot and moonwater kinda the vibe..... both pairs clicking almost instantaneously and understanding each other in a way nobody else is able to. for the former it's the slowburn of being best friends and inseperable and the literal definition of that "where's the rest of ya?" trend. the romance of running away from "home" into the arms of the one person who you know will love you unconditionally. for the latter it's deadly silence and shared looks and taking turns to be the scary one. serious and uninterrupted study sessions, and emotional moments rewarded with the comfort of mutual knowing just who the other person is. reading wizard and muggle classics together and knowing exactly what it's like to have to hide parts of yourself to be seen as good. I mean I love wolfstar and jegulus but COME AWN SEE MY VISION.

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“i love getting compliments”

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the time has come once again.... here are my unserious 2024-25 season predictions >:)

-teenager on tiktok/hockey twitter tries to claim that they are sidney crosby's long lost child because their mom had a one night stand back in 2007

-someone from the canes says something about gooning in a video and the social media admin doesn't catch it and allows it to hit the timeline. cause chaos

-trevor zegras reveals him and dixie damelio were briefly married and the marriage has been annulled

-celebrini for calder this one is actually sooo serious to me

-nhl duolingo ad partnership

-utah makes the playoffs somehow

-mark stone's cap circumvention injury of the year is testicular torsion

-mitch marner gets browbone filler so everyone stops being mean to him

-gary bettman health scare that prompts a kind of succession type situation with a bunch of old canadian men (he's fine)

-this did have captain rasmus dahlin on it and then that happened so??? we're up???

-paul bissonnette struck by lightning (we have to keep hoping)

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My apologies Peter, it's so fun and easy to draw a little rat instead of a whole boy.

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guys walburga is older than tom i can imagine the rise of voldemort and walburga's like ? wha? who? ohhh that weird kid? he had like no friends lmao ,,, fucking half breed ,,, he tried to stick w us and we shoved him in a closet & charmed him quiet for like 3 hours when he was like 12 . @ alphard didnt u have the hots for him . what ? join him ? WORK FOR HIM ? 💀💀 that's funny . but maybe i can go have tea w him and remind him how he had a crush on druella . idk why . i was hotter

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Just two prefects, zero feet apart cuz they’re not?? gay???

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i went to fujoshi university but no one at the musician rpf department knew you so they told me to go ask at the sports rpf department instead but i got lost in the minor literary character shippining library and two wolfstar scholars pointed me to the larry stylinson lab instead of the formula one mpreg study hall :/

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normalize romanticize cannibalize

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whatever you do, don't think about 12 year old Sirius Black becoming very suspicious as to why his new friend disappears from school periodically and returns looking exhausted, sometimes with bruises and cuts riddling his body.

don't think about him getting worried when Remus lies, "Oh, it was a family thing".

don't think about him trying to do research on abusive households out of concern that perhaps his friend is living in dire circumstances.

and please don't imagine him coming to the realization that Remus isn't the one in an abusive household... he is.

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couldn't choose between those 2

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Just them🤍

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i am a perfectly nonchalant person. except on days where i crave love. then i choke up and go insane and begin howling at the moon

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she had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even and, most especially, when that person could not see it in themselves

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qkzbkwbzkbwzkbezk ... .

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Less fics about Remus being horny and dominating before full moon more fics about Remus being absolutely sad pathetic wet miserable because his whole body aches and he needs to be wrapped in blankets and coddled