Thank you again. I'm still working them out. The problem is that John and Sherlock are really enough for me. I could - and will - write them just knocking about the flat saying whatever is magically being whispered into my ear and flowing onto the keyboard. What the heck do I need these other characters for? :-)
But just making Hannibal physically threatening and Viola nervously fluttering is a straight out cop out on my part as an author. There is more there and I need to work out what it is, and it's actually exactly as you describe, because not one of these characters is saying what he feels or means in this scene - not one of them. Family at its most Holmesian, really.
I'm also being lazy because I wrote a few really delicious lines that I don't want to give up so I'm still sort of trying to write around them, but what i really need to do is pull them out completely and then see if there's a place where they fit organically once the characters have come to life.
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Date: 2012-07-22 06:36 pm (UTC)But just making Hannibal physically threatening and Viola nervously fluttering is a straight out cop out on my part as an author. There is more there and I need to work out what it is, and it's actually exactly as you describe, because not one of these characters is saying what he feels or means in this scene - not one of them. Family at its most Holmesian, really.
I'm also being lazy because I wrote a few really delicious lines that I don't want to give up so I'm still sort of trying to write around them, but what i really need to do is pull them out completely and then see if there's a place where they fit organically once the characters have come to life.
I walk with my mp3 player. :-) Oh, and I think I found a ship for Pirate!Sherlock... http://www.etsy.com/listing/97028320/vintage-model-ship-wooden-sailboat-large?