I LOVE Tangled! It's just such a fabulous, beautiful movie. But if I wrote it there would be more of a 'oh my God she's my Mum and I love her but she's been using me but what should I do', I agree. But then it wouldn't be a kids movie, so it's probably good I didn't.
I've never especially noticed any telling in K&C, if that helps. I always think that if you're aware of what you struggle with (dear God run-on sentences are the bane of my existence) then you can fix it as you go along, and the more aware of it you are the less you do it until eventually you don't do it any more.
I get what you mean about subtlety when it comes to showing, though. It's a debate I've had with myself more than once, but I came to the conclusion that I want to write something I would want to read, and that means learning through observing and intuiting and sudden thunderbolts of understanding (hopefully!) I've debated this with nekosmuse as well, about how commercial fiction requires more exposition than fic to be sold, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm gonna do my own thing and hope for the best. If it means not everyone gets what I'm driving at, then that's okay - they don't have to. It's worth it for the people who do.
You know, I think you've just pinned Erik right there. I love that whole paragraph. (I wish I'd written it!) Erik is just always waiting for Charles to give up on him, or disappoint him somehow, and he's fighting as hard as he can to reach Charles through this tangle of his own issues but they're choking him back as well. He tries and he tries and he tries, but he gets so caught up in I can't let him see this and he would hate me if he knew and don't give anyone the ammunition that he can't stop it any more. He can only hope that Charles is stubborn enough to keep going. And the thing is, there's so much Erik doesn't know about Charles, either. (But no, his hair doesn't glow when he sings :D)
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I've never especially noticed any telling in K&C, if that helps. I always think that if you're aware of what you struggle with (dear God run-on sentences are the bane of my existence) then you can fix it as you go along, and the more aware of it you are the less you do it until eventually you don't do it any more.
I get what you mean about subtlety when it comes to showing, though. It's a debate I've had with myself more than once, but I came to the conclusion that I want to write something I would want to read, and that means learning through observing and intuiting and sudden thunderbolts of understanding (hopefully!) I've debated this with
You know, I think you've just pinned Erik right there. I love that whole paragraph. (I wish I'd written it!) Erik is just always waiting for Charles to give up on him, or disappoint him somehow, and he's fighting as hard as he can to reach Charles through this tangle of his own issues but they're choking him back as well. He tries and he tries and he tries, but he gets so caught up in I can't let him see this and he would hate me if he knew and don't give anyone the ammunition that he can't stop it any more. He can only hope that Charles is stubborn enough to keep going. And the thing is, there's so much Erik doesn't know about Charles, either. (But no, his hair doesn't glow when he sings :D)