When I was growing up and reading books, I encountered a lot of first person point of view. As a result, I started writing in first person when I was in middle school, thinking clearly that was the best perspective. It took several creative writing classes and a truck load of short stories (and, surprisingly [...]
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The first person perspective in fantasy rant
posted by erin on January 9, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/first-person-perspective-rant
The High Lord by Trudi Canavan
I just finished The High Lord by Trudi Canavan, instead of writing (more) for NaNoWriMo. I’m down to the wire and a little behind for my early deadline but I could not put this book down. Absolutely could not. I decided I’d read a chapter or two earlier (I’d been doing that with the book [...]
posted by erin on November 25, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/the-high-lord-by-trudi-canavan
The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
I just finished The Crown of Dalemark, the fourth and final book of the Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones. I think this is going to be one of those books — series — I’ll need to re-read. Gosh, add these books to the to-buy list! I read the first two books — Cart and [...]
posted by erin on October 25, 2008
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2008/dalemark
Birth order
I was reading this article today. It’s a well presented article with a lot of good points on both sides of the birth order argument. As a kid I found this sort of thing fascinating because of my family’s dynamics. Both of my parents are youngest siblings (my dad of two, my mom of six) [...]
posted by erin on October 23, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/birth-order
