{"id":2166,"date":"2014-04-04T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:10:04","slug":"method-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/method-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"Method Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A character in Novel #5 is a novelist. Her works take place in a harder-scifi story world, more disconnected from consensus reality than Rune Skelley likes to have things. Excerpts appear as epigraphs<\/a> with each of our chapters. It gives us a way to sneak in thematic messages and accentuate events going on in the main narrative, as well as helping to flesh out the character who “wrote” them.<\/p>\n

The person who actually wrote them is a character, all right, and he got into character to do it.<\/p>\n

Our fictional novelist, for reasons too complicated to go into here, prefers not to see her output.\u00a0To emulate her process, Kent put his wireless keyboard in his lap and turned his chair to face away from his monitor. Not seeing the words made it easier to resist tampering with each sentence too much, and promoted a more deliberate style of composition. It did slow him down, though. The impact on productivity might be too severe to apply this trick for an entire novel, but when focusing on short passages it is a simple way to alter the way you relate to the words.<\/p>\n

We wanted the epigraphs to sound like they were written by someone else. Changing the work conditions helped ensure that the output was distinctive. Matching the conditions faced by our character made it easier to think like her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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