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So, do you like writing in third person better?

Definitely. I find that I can get the perfect balance of inner character and external descriptions with third person, and I have more room to add more perspective characters. Lately, I’ve found first person completely foreign. It forces me to suddenly become much more focused on one character than any of my WIPs do, with their broad perspectives.

 

@imwritehere1920 wrote: Then Gilbert comes blithely along, rowing his little boat

girls screaming in the distance: Anne’s drowning!

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Gilbert: [smirking in the way only Gil can] Anne Shirley. What are you doing?

Anne: [lifts her nose impossibly high in the air] Fishing for lake trout.

One of my favorite scenes as well! xD And no worries–I’ve never read the books either! But I absolutely adore the movies. My sister has the whole series in paperback, but I just can’t bring myself to read them after learning Gilbert died super early.

 

I forgot to ask you what the premise for Little Lord Fauntleroy was

So the son of an English earl or some other gentry position moved to New England and married an American. He died young, leaving his wife and infant son. The son, Cedric, inherits his father’s title and moves to England at six or so to live with his grandfather. The story is about him holding to his father and mother’s standards while facing pressures from society and, in the process, healing the distance between his grandfather and his mother due to her marriage to his son. Cedric is precious–noble and gentle, quick-witted and insightful.

@arindown

A new question…what’s your all-time favorite scenes from books or movies?

So in Morgan L. Busse’s Followers of the Word trilogy, there is a scene where an assassin is in this kind of between-worlds place. He’s at a river, and there is blood on his hands that he can’t wash off. He tries over and over and still the red stains him. Later, after he accepts the  calling on his life, the Word (God) washes it away completely for him.

In Brandon Sanderon’s Way of Kings, there is a point in one of the MC’s lives (Kaladin, at that point a slave), when he’s on a cliff debating whether he should jump or not. This, at one of his lowest points, a friend unknowingly brings him a poisonous leaf. He crumples the leaf and throws it into the chasm. When he walks away, he has resolved to save the other slaves in his crew as well.

When Thanos snaps his fingers…. and the end fight scene in Avengers: End Game.

This isn’t a movie, but in Broadway’s version of Anastasia, when she and Dmitri are singing In A Crowd of Thousands, and Anastasia says something that happened in the past and Dmitri goes, “Uh, I didn’t tell you that” and she responds, “You didn’t have to. I remember!” Goosebumps!

 

Favorite character out of any book/movie? OR, alternatively, what’s one book you always find yourself coming back to read?