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On women's roles in wartime and the writing of CNV, over at the Daily Fig on figment.com. It was an inspired idea to write this from V's point of view, but OH. MY. GOD. How I wept over that final paragraph while writing it. Thank god for ball point pens.

http://dailyfig.figment.com/2012/05/22/verity-speaks/

Date: 2012-05-23 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
It's telling, rather than showing, which is what Verity usually does. It's like she's actually doing what she was asked, telling and not showing what a woman could do during the War.

Date: 2012-05-23 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
That is true. I was just trying to figure out why it didn't quite feel like the same voice.

Date: 2012-05-23 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anderyn.livejournal.com
Which I, for one, am quite happy that she's not under. Ew. That made me quiver all through the book, you know, that kerosine threat -- and I've never quite been able to forgive Engel her flicking matches at Verity.

Date: 2012-05-23 03:14 pm (UTC)
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We need some sort of forum. And people who haven't read it yet can avoid going there.

Date: 2012-05-23 03:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
Maybe I should just write a Goodreads review that is chock full of spoilers, hide it so people who want to avoid spoilers don't actually find anything out, and then comments could be the forum.

Date: 2012-05-23 11:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tiboribi.livejournal.com
I am really not at all sure how this works, but I have created a public Goodreads group to be a Code Name Verity spoiler friendly conversation area.

It is here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/70433-code-name-verity-spoiler-friendly-zone

Date: 2012-05-23 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anderyn.livejournal.com
Oh. Oh dear. I am so sorry to have mentioned spoilers. Should I just delete my comment? I had hoped that it was early enough in the mss. that it wouldn't count as a huge spoiler, not in the way that, say, my unspoken hopes for M. would be.

Date: 2012-05-23 03:12 pm (UTC)
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There's also something about the flow of the long sentences. Not that book-Verity doesn't use long sentences, because she does, but these are slightly different. (I just tried reading it in my Verity voice, and it's ever-so-slightly rhythmically different somehow.) I don't know if that's inherent, or if it's the editing showing though.

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