Reading Recs? (other media can come play too...)
Saturday, 24 March 2018 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarasa_catI am writing an epic thing and I am looking for some style inspiration to see how other writers (and other media makers) have handled EITHER of the following two things:
1. Music -- a character “understands” their emotions/feelings/innerworld through music. I have this highly introspective character with middling-low emotional IQ who spends a lot of time listening to music, noticing synchronicities between his life and that music, and making sense of his confused emotions and thoughts through other musician’s lyrics and instrumentation. While I can very easily imagine how I would show these scenes if shooting a movie or writing a graphic novel/manga, I am looking for various ways that authors have done this in prose. That said, all recs are welcome, even if not a prose novel or short story. Thus recs for movies, manga, etc are welcome too.
2. Limerence -- a character is overcome by the mental fantasies and physiological sensations of being overcome with limerence (= extreme infatuation). Pretty much what it says on the tin, and bonus if most unrequited.
Here’s what limerence is. Key bits are obsessive intrusive thinking/fantasizing about future possible events with the person such that the fantasies are set in realistic everyday events rather than merely sexual, and, more importantly, the physical sensations of being in extreme limerence (from wikipedia): “A condition of sustained alertness, a heightening of awareness and an enormous fund of energy to deploy in pursuit of the limerent aim is developed. The sensation of limerence is felt in the midpoint of the chest, bottom of the throat, guts, or in some cases in the abdominal region. This can be interpreted as ecstasy at times of mutuality, but its presence is most noticeable during despair at times of rejection.”
Writing a state of limerence is very mental thus very much suited to prose fiction therefore, a lot easier for me to imagine and write (and I have managed to write it in a prior novella with said character). That said, always looking for other ways that writers have handled it.
Obviously, while not required, big bonus if any of the media examples of 1 or 2 feature a character with a similar temperament/personality as the character I am writing -- LOL -- SEE ICON HEH HEH. ;D
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1. Music -- a character “understands” their emotions/feelings/innerworld through music. I have this highly introspective character with middling-low emotional IQ who spends a lot of time listening to music, noticing synchronicities between his life and that music, and making sense of his confused emotions and thoughts through other musician’s lyrics and instrumentation. While I can very easily imagine how I would show these scenes if shooting a movie or writing a graphic novel/manga, I am looking for various ways that authors have done this in prose. That said, all recs are welcome, even if not a prose novel or short story. Thus recs for movies, manga, etc are welcome too.
2. Limerence -- a character is overcome by the mental fantasies and physiological sensations of being overcome with limerence (= extreme infatuation). Pretty much what it says on the tin, and bonus if most unrequited.
Here’s what limerence is. Key bits are obsessive intrusive thinking/fantasizing about future possible events with the person such that the fantasies are set in realistic everyday events rather than merely sexual, and, more importantly, the physical sensations of being in extreme limerence (from wikipedia): “A condition of sustained alertness, a heightening of awareness and an enormous fund of energy to deploy in pursuit of the limerent aim is developed. The sensation of limerence is felt in the midpoint of the chest, bottom of the throat, guts, or in some cases in the abdominal region. This can be interpreted as ecstasy at times of mutuality, but its presence is most noticeable during despair at times of rejection.”
Writing a state of limerence is very mental thus very much suited to prose fiction therefore, a lot easier for me to imagine and write (and I have managed to write it in a prior novella with said character). That said, always looking for other ways that writers have handled it.
Obviously, while not required, big bonus if any of the media examples of 1 or 2 feature a character with a similar temperament/personality as the character I am writing -- LOL -- SEE ICON HEH HEH. ;D
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