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Post by ropardoe on Jul 15, 2020 8:28:19 GMT
I've got a slightly weird, but hopefully easily answered question. I no longer have my copy of the Ash-Tree Press anthology Midnight Never Comes. I'm sure there must be folk here who have a copy. Could you do me a favour and go and check my story "The Sheelagh-na-gig", and tell me whether it's written in the first or third person? The story was originally written in the third person and at some point I changed it to the first person. I need to know whether it was before or after Midnight Never Comes (which was its first appearance in print). Thanks in advance to whichever kindly person comes to my rescue!
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jul 15, 2020 12:07:14 GMT
Just checked my copy of 'Midnight Never Comes', and the story is told in the first person there.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 15, 2020 12:24:15 GMT
Just checked my copy of 'Midnight Never Comes', and the story is told in the first person there. Brilliant - just what I needed to know. Thanks. So I must have changed it from third to first person before original publication. You'd think I'd remember when I did it, as it can't have been an easy job.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 16, 2020 7:11:41 GMT
Just checked my copy of 'Midnight Never Comes', and the story is told in the first person there. Brilliant - just what I needed to know. Thanks. So I must have changed it from third to first person before original publication. You'd think I'd remember when I did it, as it can't have been an easy job. It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 16, 2020 8:17:59 GMT
Brilliant - just what I needed to know. Thanks. So I must have changed it from third to first person before original publication. You'd think I'd remember when I did it, as it can't have been an easy job. It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. Yes, I knew it had been changed by then, but thanks. As for MRJ fainting at the ending - pleased to hear it: I still think it's the most original idea I've ever come up with!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 16, 2020 10:35:17 GMT
Brilliant - just what I needed to know. Thanks. So I must have changed it from third to first person before original publication. You'd think I'd remember when I did it, as it can't have been an easy job. It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. I just read it, and I have to say I do not see what the big deal is. I lost consciousness only very briefly.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 16, 2020 12:21:52 GMT
It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. I just read it, and I have to say I do not see what the big deal is. I lost consciousness only very briefly. That'll do for me!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 16, 2020 13:44:55 GMT
It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. Yes, I knew it had been changed by then, but thanks. As for MRJ fainting at the ending - pleased to hear it: I still think it's the most original idea I've ever come up with! So, ye admit it!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jul 17, 2020 13:04:01 GMT
Brilliant - just what I needed to know. Thanks. So I must have changed it from third to first person before original publication. You'd think I'd remember when I did it, as it can't have been an easy job. It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. I'm reminded that I originally wrote THE OVERNIGHT as a series of first-person narratives, but Jenny rightly pointed out that the voices weren't individual enough, and so I went to third in the rewrite.
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Post by ropardoe on Jul 17, 2020 15:33:02 GMT
It's also told in the first person in THE BLACK VEIL edited by Mark Valentine. M.R. James would have fainted at the ending. I'm reminded that I originally wrote THE OVERNIGHT as a series of first-person narratives, but Jenny rightly pointed out that the voices weren't individual enough, and so I went to third in the rewrite. "Sheelagh-na-gig" is actually the only 'Mary Ann Allen' story written originally in the third person. It really didn't suit me. Mind you, fiction writing in general doesn't suit me, which is why I haven't written any other stories! I found that once I started a story I became obsessed with finishing it, whatever the hour. There was no way I was going to sleep until it was done. So after producing twelve stories, I decided to revert to the much healthier (for me) non-fiction! Goodness knows what state I'd be in if I tried to write a novel
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 18, 2020 21:53:10 GMT
As for MRJ fainting at the ending - pleased to hear it: I still think it's the most original idea I've ever come up with! There's even an accompanying sound track:
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