This is almost in the spirit of what you posted. I'm going to give it a shot...
Do you have a favorite scene? A favorite line? What are they?
I don't have a favourite scene -- I think there are too many of them, and they all run together in my mind. (Do other authors do this as well? I can remember the events clearly, but without thinking, I no longer clearly remember which book(s) they occured in; they all blend together to become part of the overall story).
I like, in Broken Crown, the line "The Sun is in my eyes." I like it because I hadn't thought of it before Ramiro said it, but it was culturally perfect for the context. My first impulse is to choose lines that are all like that -- the things that people said that I couldn't have predicted but that had the ring of truth to them that made them perfect for the character or culture. Hunter's Oath, when Mari says "It's always the sons" was one of those moments. The entire epilogue of Uncrowned King, which came out of Kallandras decision to ignore Evayne's instructions for reasons of his own.
The last scene with Nicu in Sea of Sorrows. Kallandras' acceptance of the duality of his life when he sees what Adam carries in his hand after the flood. When Diora calls Margret Ruatha in Sea as well.
I look at those moments as gifts; as things that come unplanned, but follow out of everything that's already been established. The entire scene in Hunter's Death, when the bards sing, and Kallandras joins them. Oh -- and the baying of the hounds in Death as well.
It's almost because of those moments that I write at all -- there's something piercing about them, something that moves me because I didn't consciously choose them.
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Date: 2004-11-30 11:05 pm (UTC)Do you have a favorite scene? A favorite line? What are they?
I don't have a favourite scene -- I think there are too many of them, and they all run together in my mind. (Do other authors do this as well? I can remember the events clearly, but without thinking, I no longer clearly remember which book(s) they occured in; they all blend together to become part of the overall story).
I like, in Broken Crown, the line "The Sun is in my eyes." I like it because I hadn't thought of it before Ramiro said it, but it was culturally perfect for the context. My first impulse is to choose lines that are all like that -- the things that people said that I couldn't have predicted but that had the ring of truth to them that made them perfect for the character or culture. Hunter's Oath, when Mari says "It's always the sons" was one of those moments. The entire epilogue of Uncrowned King, which came out of Kallandras decision to ignore Evayne's instructions for reasons of his own.
The last scene with Nicu in Sea of Sorrows. Kallandras' acceptance of the duality of his life when he sees what Adam carries in his hand after the flood. When Diora calls Margret Ruatha in Sea as well.
I look at those moments as gifts; as things that come unplanned, but follow out of everything that's already been established. The entire scene in Hunter's Death, when the bards sing, and Kallandras joins them. Oh -- and the baying of the hounds in Death as well.
It's almost because of those moments that I write at all -- there's something piercing about them, something that moves me because I didn't consciously choose them.