All entries for Sunday 05 October 2008

Writers on fridge people

Writing about web page http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/24/booksforchildrenandteenagers

I'm quoting a Guardian article here:

According to fantasy fiction writer China Miéville, the world can be divided into two camps.

"When I was moving into my new house a few years ago we were having all our kitchen stuff delivered and my then-partner got off the phone, turned to me and said 'the fridge men are coming,'" explains Miéville. "Now, it seems to me that there are two kinds of people: those that hear that sentence and think 'oh good, delivery of the white goods', and then there's those people who imagine a kind of enormous cyborg thing..." Miéville trails off. There's absolutely no doubting which camp he falls into.

This is a bit like what happened to me in my ITCW seminar this week, because when George Ttoouli said: "You can write in third person, either inside or outside their head," I immediately had a vision of the atoms and brain cells inside someone's head bubbling around in lots of blood.

I know this isn't exactly a cyborg fridge monster, but it entertained me. So I wrote my piece from inside the character's head.

Madeleine Beresford : 05 Oct 2008 22:49 |  Tags: Icw20089 Imagination Writers |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem