Sorry if you keep seeing these twice, I forget about the message boards, blog about it, then remember and post it here as well, I'll delete them eventually, I'm a little slow at times, ha.
Just wondering.. Does anyone struggle sometimes during writing whether its first or third person, driving things forward without it becoming too repetitive, too boring and too linear? I usually write in first person view, and then I have this problem where the writing becomes really boring. See example below:
"Bob looked over his shoulder, he turned around and walked to the window. Checking outside, he then walked back to his kitchen. Then he done this blah blah, then he done that blah blah bleeeugghhh."
I kind of feel that, when I'm using first person narrative, usually its 70% the characters thoughts inside their head, 10% their actions and 20% dialogue. I love dialogue, I really struggle with the action part, it seems so boring. This may have something to do with the fact that I write scripts on the side, and of course while writing stage directions, you have to be pretty repetitive and clear about what the characters are doing, so I guess I find it hard to seperate from the two. I seem to think its necessary to give the readers a running commentary of my characters actions, I feel that if they're talking to someone one minute, then putting their seatbelt on next, people may feel confused.
Does anyone experience anything similar? And if so, do you have any techniques to combat this? If so, I would really, really appreciate hearing from you. If you do experience this and are as helpess as me, stick with me! We'll solve it together.
Thank-you in advance
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