A few things:

[cosmic_celery]

First, a question: Do you think that a story can be successfully written from the POV of a character's stream of consciousness? I was playing with the idea, but I'm not entirely sure if it works. I don't mean just first-person, I mean actual head-speak if you will. Maybe this would work better with an example?

Extending a hand to turn the left buffering dial, and –

Oh. and there, sitting, suddenly – well, perhaps not so suddenly, I could have overlooked – nonsense. No. Couldn’t have. Suddenly, something’s there. Bright pink cardstock folded in half, a pressed flower on its front (a geranium? Yes, I think so). …folded in half, pressed white geranium on its front. I’ll pick it up, examine the front…What do white geraniums represent again? Preference? Doe-eyed compassion? Remembrance? I don’t recall.

Any which way, it’s still rather strange, isn’t it? - Bright pink cardstock folded in half, with a pressed white geranium signifying something or most probably nothing at all on its front, suddenly appearing on top of the TARDIS console waiting to be found by me. Most strange. Most strange indeed.

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And speaking of Six, I've just started RPing him over at brb_gallifrey. It's a fun community, and neat to have a character interacting with real people as well as other characters. Everyone should stop by, especially since I'm running the Six weeks in the Classic Who watch-a-thon! No treats to anyone who guesses which episode I'm picking first - it's too easy.

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And a meme:

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will post the answers to the questions (and the questions themselves) on your blog or journal.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...


dragonessa24 gave me these:
1. How did you get into Doctor Who?
The memory is a bit fuzzy, to be honest, but I think I started when the Christopher Eccleston series started on SciFi channel here. Then I looked up all the classic stuff, and I've become much more a fan of that than of the new series. So, in some ways Five is "my Doctor," because he's the first I saw the complete episodes of, and in some ways it's Nine because he's who I started with. As for my favorite, that's a tie between Five and Six. :)

I really got sucked into Doctor Who, I think, because the universe is so big, has been around for such a long time, and has so much spin-off media, that I can go off and dive in at any point and still come up with much more to explore.

2. What do you think of Matt Smith as Eleven?
I don't know. Before he was announced, I wanted an older actor in the role - perhaps more of a Pertwee type. I haven't seen Smith as the Doctor yet, and I'm reserving judgment 'till then, but I am looking forward to seeing what he and Moffat are going to do with the show!

3. Which BF audios have you listened to and which one is your favorite?
Not many, but I've definitely enjoyed the ones that I have listened to. My favorite is probably Loup Garou, because of the good Turlough moments. They gave him some good material in that one. All of the Turlough audios are good, really. For Six, both ...ish and Year of the Pig because he gets to be verbose and intellectual and very Six in both, and I love that.

I've just finished Scherzo which I really liked. It's an eighth Doctor audio with Charley right after Zagreus and it all takes place in one location (pretty much), which makes almost the entire thing dialogue between the Doctor and Charley. I love stories that are limited like that. Which brings me to...

4. What's your favorite Stargate Atlantis episode, and why?
There's no doubt that it's Grace Under Pressure, in which Rodney is stuck in a puddle jumper, switching between monologue and hallucination for most of the episode. Having one character in a scene is definitely a challenge for the writer, and the limited scope really brings out the character and creates an engaging story - the kind you can't have with fifteen different characters and an evil alien force. Rodney's the best possible character they could have picked to give that sort of episode...and I'm a sucker for any looks into any character's thought processes and inner world.

5. What sciences are you interested in?
Uh...well, I've always been a bit more for science fiction than actual, hard science. Science isn't my field of study, but I can't say that I'm disinterested in it either. I like all science and I'm particularly interested in how the world of theoretical physics is branching out to better understand the universe big and small. I just don't know very much about it, and I wish I knew more. Just another thing to research into!

Comments

[notusachan.livejournal.com]

I WANT YOUR SIX TO HANG WITH MY CHARLEY. But but but. I don't play her there. And I doubt there's more than like three of us there who even know who she is and and yeeaaah.

But um, on a more related note, I think a story like that would be really interesting to read. :3

[dragonessa24.livejournal.com]

Stream of consciousness can be interesting, but I personally think it wouldn't work for an entire story. It just gets... hm, a bit confusing, frustrating perhaps? to try and follow the action through the person's eyes, because their thoughts jump around so much. It can be nice for parts of a story or a ficlet though, IMO.

Oh, oh! Can I guess anyway? Is it the one in your icon?! Funnily enough I found that comm through your f-list yesterday (I swear I wasn't stalking you, I just wanted to see if the vid I posted was screwing up anyone's f-list, so I checked the first I stumbled over) and it looks to be a fun place. I want to RP the TARDIS so badly and it would seem like the ideal place, but she's listed as already taken. :'(

1. Oh, I really love that about the Who universe too. You can spend years exploring it all, and also it's most likely going to be around for a long while longer in one form or another.

3. I haven't listened to Year of the Pig yet, I'll have to do that. Did you listen to Zagreus before Scherzo? I found Scherzo to be both fascinating and disturbing, so I can never tell if I liked it or not.

4. &hearts Grace Under Pressure. &hearts What you said, and also David Hewlett was brilliant in it (though isn't he always). It was my most favorite until Tao of Rodney.

I'm gonna offer everyone who answered my interview questions to interview me too, for fairness'sake and for procrastination.

[shobogan.livejournal.com]

I think it can definitely work, but you have to be careful - make sure you can see the narrative behind the rambling, I guess? (I've done it with Five, but only in short bursts. Also, he might have more thought control than Six. ;p)

What's brb_gallifrey like, overall?

1. *grin* Nine is my first Doctor, and Five my first Classic Doctor. /hi5? I love that there's so, so much to Who.

3. Loup Garoux! It is one of my very favourites, and not even just for the werewolves. And Scherzo is marvellous, in a painful way.

5. We have similar thoughts on science! Me, I'm interested but I'm a bit rubbish at it.

Interview me?

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Do you think that a story can be successfully written from the POV of a character's stream of consciousness? I was playing with the idea, but I'm not entirely sure if it works.

Sorry to be cliché, but… Virginia Woolf and James Joyce beg to disagree. Maybe find an example of the technique that you think is successful and parse out why it works? Or, maybe more instructive, find an example that you hate, and then spork it to hell and back to see why it doesn't.

At any rate, it seems like the trick is always to choose a stream-of-consciousness that's worth telling. Which makes it little different from any other writing.