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[dearwriters]

Hi there.

I was wondering if you have any advice on balancing an ensemble cast? As in, how do you manage having, say, 6 pov characters without the reader getting bored, impatient, or forgetting a character until it's a chapter of theirs again?

Thank you for the work you do :)

How to Balance an Ensemble Cast

Hey, thank you for your question! While I personally do not have a lot of experience writing ensemble casts, I think the following points would be helpful to consider when planning/writing one:

Getting into the characters Point of View: Lenses and Distinct Voices

One of the most important things about Multi-POV-narratives is to give each character a distinct voice so they don't just bleed into each other. This concerns:

a) the content of their narration: Ask yourself: What is this characters "lense", their specific frame of reference through which they see the events? This can depend on their background, their interests, knowledge, viewpoint etc. How do they see the world differently than the others? Try to imprint the narration of the POVs with the characters personality, especially if you are writing in first person. A very sarcastic character would view the same events quite differently as a very optimistic, bubbly character. Different characters would notice different things. This can be established by something as simple as focus points: maybe an artistic character narrates a lot about the colours around them and a detective character is very perceptive about peoples body language or stuff like that. Maybe the soldier is focused on battle strategies and the details of their surroundings, all while their love-interest is focused on them.

b) the form of their narration: Best case szenario, you would be able to identify who is talking, just based on their voice. This should be noticable in dialouge but also in narration. A very academic character would maybe use a slightly different vocabulary than a character who's more about street smarts. How do their speech patterns correlate to their person and background? Another example: In the popular contemporary novel "The Flatshare" one of the POV characters isn't really talkative. The author chose to reflect that in their narration via a fragmented narration style, using as little adjectives and full sentences as possible, while still keeping things readable. You can find more information about Character Voice in this post.

Overall, when it comes to differentiating between POVs, ask yourself: How can the personality, believes and expertise of a character affect the way they see the world and thus the way they narrate?

Anchoring your Scene

This is a little tip I picked up from the YouTube channel of author Sacha Black (great writing advice, check her out!). Multiple POVs can be quite challenging, especially if there are time/place jumps between the POVS. Thus, to not confuse your reader, it is important to quickly establish who is talking, where they are and when they are. Person, place, time. This needs to be clear so the reader isn't lost (unless it's your goal to confuse your reader, which would certainly be a valid goal). In some books the chapter header indicates POV, which is a very quick and easy way to establish at least one of those factors, but there are other ways to do this.

Making every POV count

If you want to avoid your readers being bored or even skipping POVs it's important to actually have a distinct reason of evers POV to exist. Thus, everybody needs a piece of the puzzle for the plot. Just like in the point about lenses and voices, you can use the differnt personalities, backgrounds and knowledges of your characters to let them uncover and drive different pieces of the story. Every POV character needs a reason to be here and a way to contribute.

Having multiple POVs is actually a great way to create tension, because the reader will know a lot of information not every character knows. It's the old Hitchcock-principle of letting the reader know about a bomb under the table the characters don't know anything about. Use the distribution and retention of information to your advantage.

Furthermore, everyone needs their own character arcs. A compelling character is all abouts goals, motivations and conflicts (more about the whole "GMC"-concept in this post) that tie them to the bigger story as well as having their own wants and needs (check out this post if you like) plus having flaws and the corresponding concequences (more about that in this post).

Those are just some of the big things I'd recommend you to think about. I hope this helped!

Have fun writing!

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[omophagias]

decided to do a thing i saw on letterboxd called “modular film festival” (original post here), putting the list up here b/c i’m very likely to lose the physical copy

self-imposed rule was it had to be something i either haven’t seen or literally can’t remember seeing. there’s no way i watch all of these in 30 days but i want to finish it by the end of the year.

✅ a winner of op’s moviebowl tournament -- metropolis (1927), fritz lang

✅ two movies thematically linked somehow -- theme: napoleonic era -- the duellists (1977), ridley scott

✅ see above -- the ashes (popioły) (1965), andrzej wajda

✅ a movie from eastern europe -- stalker (Сталкер) (1979), andrei tarkovsky

✅ a movie from the middle east -- death of yazdgerd (مرگ یزدگرد) (1982), bahram beyzai

✅ a movie from southeast asia -- a land imagined (幻土) (2018), yeo siew hua

✅ a movie from north africa -- wanderers of the desert (الهائمون) (1984), nacer khemir

✅ a movie from sub-saharan africa -- double-header: kwaku ananse (2013), akosua adoma owusu & touki bouki (1979), djibril diop mambéty

✅ a movie starring nicolas cage -- mandy (2018), panos cosmatos

✅ a kaiju movie -- shin godzilla (シン・ゴジラ) (2016), hideaki anno & shinji higuchi

✅ a movie based on a video game -- werewolves within (2021), josh ruben

✅ three movies by the same director i haven’t seen -- director: alfred hitchcock -- rebecca (1940)

✅ see above -- vertigo (1958)

✅ see above -- north by northwest (1959)

✅ a black and white horror movie -- the witch (häxan) (1922), benjamin christensen

✅ a non-english-language action movie -- samurai assassin (侍) (1965), kihachi okamoto

✅ a movie by an lgbtq+ director -- big eden (2000), thomas bezucha

✅ a movie by an indigenous director -- atanarjuat: the fast runner (ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ) (2001), zacharias kunuk

✅ a movie by a director neither white nor a man -- atlantics (atlantique) (2019), mati diop

✅ a movie from op’s list “the hundred” -- the third man (1949), carol reed

✅ a movie from roger ebert’s top 10 of my birth year -- maborosi (幻の光) (1997), hirokazu kore-eda

two movies i have not seen whose directors were nominated at the 2022 cannes festival -- oldboy (올드보이) (2003), park chan-wook

see above -- beau travail (1999), claire denis

a movie from the “hideo kojima canon” -- blade runner (1982), ridley scott

a movie that won best picture in the 1970s -- the french connection (1971), william friedkin

an animated movie not made in the usa or by studio ghibli -- azur et asmar (2006), michel ocelot

a movie 150 minutes or longer -- dwelling in the fuchun mountains (春江水暖) (2019), gu xiaogang

a movie 90 minutes or shorter -- another double-header -- ruddigore (1967), joy batchelor & nezha conquers the dragon king (哪吒闹海) (1979), wang shuchen, yang dingxian, & xu jingda

a niche documentary -- what counts as niche? -- cave of forgotten dreams (2010), werner herzog

a black and white non-english-language movie from before 1970 -- snow trail (銀嶺の果て) (1947), senkichi taniguchi

#.txt #.pers #once again i have become horrifically overfocused on a work night. in 2h30 i have to be out of the house

[liamsora]

Obsidian Notes

Trying to get better at writing notes in Obsidian and one of the thing I find hardest is just remembering to make the notes in the first place.

I never took notes in school because it mainly required remembering facts in context and that was always easy for me. But lately I’m realizing that I’m terrible at remembering the majority of my own thoughts. My brain will either obsess about something for all eternity, or move on to something else within seconds.

A side effect of this is that the few notes I did take in school are complete nonsense.

This one page just says “Point award system – Agree + deal of precision without much accuracy”, the next page is a paragraph positing that the rest of my classmates have been duped into thinking the whiteboard is a teacher, then a page that just says “Jack – So what’s wrong with you?”, and then a page that just says “la politique des auto”.

My notes from my class on Hitchcock consist of a page with “This is Hitchcock Class below” in both print and cursive then a series of equations and characters that look like they’re from the Voynich manuscript.

Then a page with 5 points of “Why we take Hitchcock seriously” one of which is just “Disturb”.

And then a page with the header “Following things are related to Hitchcock” which is completely blank except for where I wrote “This is the margin of the paper” in the margin.

Fun fact: I got a C on my final in Hitchcock class because the teacher claimed that my subjective interpretation of Hitchcock’s symbolism in Rope was incorrect.

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[phoebehalliwell]

skskj no it's not that bad, but apparently those Photoshop masters didn't give a shit that Prue (esp her) and Paige are different characters, so they put Paige on the covers of books with Prue (and I think they put Prue on the covers that were meant for Paige, but I'm not that sure).

that’s hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i’m--

#okay so fun fact #i have b shit facial recognition #uhh like the prime example i can think of is #y'all familiar with hitchcock's vertigo? #the lead falls for this blonde chick who dies halfway through the movie and then finds this redhead and he's like #she looks just like her! i must pursue her! i will make her into the woman i've lost!! #and i'm like idk bro their eyebrows are similar?? it feels like ur reaching here #i thought the whole point was the redhead didn't look like the blonde and it was a descent into madness #But It Was Actually The Same Actress The Whole Time She Just Dyed Her Hair #the point i'm trying to convey here is i'm stupid #So #in middle school when i was rewatching / also watching charmed for the first time #i forgot they switched out prue for paige #so the netflix header was prue piper and paige #and i was watching prue piper and phoebe #trying to figure out who was who in the netflix banner #and i completely managed to convince myself of who was who #i think i had piper as piper still #but i thought paige was phoebe and phoebe was prue #😗✌ #💌

[avelera]

Thinking about the next chapter of The Prisoners’ Dilemma :3

#and messing around with photoshop #i suck at visual art but i like this it’s kinda hitchcock #kidnapping au #next chapter header

[todaysdocument]

After President McKinley was shot by an assassin, his physicians issued this statement on his health, 9/6/1901

“The result cannot be foretold. His condition at present justifies the hope of recovery.”

McKinley died on September 14, 1901, of gangrene.

File Unit: Telegrams and Letters Relating to the McKinley Assassination, 9/1901 - 9/1901

Series: Communications with the Executive Department, 1900 - 1907

Collection: Papers of Ethan Allen Hitchcock, 1835 - 1909

Transcription:

[header, in black printed text]

Form No. 168

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

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21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA.    CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD

[handwritten over the top of the header] 807  11648

This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison. and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission.

   This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.

THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General manager.

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RECEIVED at Wyatt Building, Cor. 14th & F. Streets, Washington, D.C.

[message in purple typewritten text]

398 Dt bt 216 paid Government

Buffalo NY Sept 6th

Hon E A Hitcock

Secretary of the Interior

Washington DC

-The following Bulletin was issued by the Presidents Physicians at 7 pm.

   The President was shot about four oclock, one bullet struck him on the upper portion of the breast bone glancing and

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Form No. 1512.

The Western Union Telegraph Co.,

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SPECIAL.

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No.             Sheet                    Letter

Dated

To

[message in purple typewritten text]

398P Dt Bt Paid Govt

Buffalo NY

Hon E A Hitchcock

Washn

not penetrating. The second bullet penetrated the abdomen five inches below the left nipple and one and a half inches to the left of the menian line. The abdomen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach. The opening in the front walls of the stomach was carefully closed with silk sutures, after which a search was made for a hole in the back wall of the stomach. This was found and also closed in the same way. the further course of the bullet could not be discovered, although careful search was made. The abdominal wound was closed without drainage. No injury to the intestines or other abdominal organs was discovered. The patient stood the operation well, pulse of good quality rate of 130 condition at conclusion of the operation was gratifying The result cannot be foretold. His condition at present justifies the hope of recovery.

   P M Rixey, Mathew D Mann, Eugene Wasdin, Rosewell Park, Herman Myntor.

   Geo A Cortelyou Secretary to the President

1155 P

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[thexedits]

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[vintage1981]

Little Shoppe of Horrors #38 - The Epic Untold Saga Behind Frankenstein: The True Story by Sam Irvin | Vintage1981 Rewind

Extra Special Issue Devoted to the Making of "Frankenstein: The True Story” (Universal/NBC-TV, 1973).

First published on the eve of 2018, the 45th Anniversary of the movie and the 200th Anniversary of the novel by Mary Shelley

Expanded to 120 pages!

16 pages in full color!

First-ever 3-panel triptych wraparound/foldout cover by Mark Maddox!

2-panel diptych foldout inside cover by Bruce Timm!

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Over 400 photographs, most never-before-published!

Featuring:

BEAUTIFUL CREATURE:  The Epic Untold Saga Behind Frankenstein: The True Story - by Sam Irvin (over 50,000 words!)

Foreword by Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire)

Essay by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock)

Never-before-published essay by Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy (co-screenwriters of FTTS)

Exclusive interviews with over 20 cast and crew members, including standalone sidebar interviews with:

Leonard Whiting (Dr. Frankenstein)

Jane Seymour (Agatha / Prima)

David McCallum (Dr. Clerval)

Nicola Pagett (Elizabeth Frankenstein)

Don Bachardy (co-writer)

Ian Lewis (associate producer)

John Stoneman (first assistant director)

Plus exclusive comments from many associates of the production, including:

Sid Sheinberg (former president of Universal)

Angela Lansbury

Richard Chamberlain

Jon Voight

Geoffrey Holder

Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman)

Essay by Alec Smight, son of the late director Jack Smight

Essay by James Duke Mason, grandson of the late James Mason (Dr. Polidori)

Tributes to the late Michael Sarrazin (The Creature) by his brother Pierre Sarrazin and others

Essay on screenwriters Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy, by Katherine Bucknell

Essay on composer Gil Mellé, by James Anthony Phillips

Profile of producer Hunt Stromberg Jr., by Sam Irvin

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This issue is jam-packed with surprises beyond your wildest imagination! The staggering, never-before-reported journey to bring Frankenstein: The True Story to the screen reads like a Who’s Who, directly involving such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Francis Ford Coppola, John Boorman, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Elsa Lanchester, Franco Zeffirelli, and more!

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