She says it's "just an album of love songs" but there's depth to them, with many written from the perspective of characters whose stories develop as the album progresses.
Franzen went on to describe his initial difficulty with writing from the perspective of characters who in real life he would fundamentally dislike, but emphasised that it was one of his most important tasks as a writer to do so, because it opened up opposing perspectives.
We wrote either from personal experience or from the perspective of characters in literature or film.The letter and subsequent work attached to the letter, provided the clay from which we carved the lyrics to a song, utilizing the song structure of a model song (i.e. a song we already know engages and moves us, a favorite song).
We watch scenes a second and third time, but from the perspective of a character (or iterations of a character) we never knew was watching in the first place.
Even though the reader may have access to information viewed from the perspective of multiple characters, those characters do not have the same sort of access.
Another festival highlight playing this weekend is the German trilogy "Dreileben," which looks at a crime — or rather nibbles around its edges — from the perspectives of characters who are somehow tied to it.
Dogs shame each other for using the word "bitch," pigeons note the subtle flavor of buffalo mozzarella, a bedbug justifies his recent decision to pierce his ear er, antenna but Animals also use the perspectives of characters to explore the existential questions that plague us all.
By that I mean including other main characters who are the same sex as the writer and/or telling the story from the perspective of a character who's the same sex as the writer.
But in assuming the perspective of one character, the reader is often denied the chance to explore the internal joys and woes of other characters in the story.
4. Write monologues from the perspective of one character.
