[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

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Comments

[jaybie_jarrett]

I agree. 1st person POV is a tool that can be done well or poorly. Sometimes it works for the situation. Sometimes it doesn't.

But hell, this wouldn't be the first time a writing community dismissed a neutral writing method as bad because some poor writing misused it or used it poorly. I see this happen all the time, and it's how things get labeled as "Sue traits".

It's unfortunate but it's not surprising.

[nyxelestia]

Eh, I'm not the biggest fan of first person, but that has nothing to do with my judgement of it as a literary quality. It's just a combination of my own reading methods/comprehension, and personal preference. But I will read first person.

I will say that newer writers do, in my experience, tend to jump into first person more, but that doesn't mean first person is inherently bad. I will be more selective about which first person stories in fandom I will read because of it, but I'll never dismiss a fic outright because it's first person.

[jaybie_jarrett]

Ah I can understand that. and I agree.

My only issue lies with the type of people who hear first person and go "lol obviously a self insert Sue".

[(Anonymous)]

Anon OP of thread

I get this. I generally prefer 3rd person in my fic, so will gravitate towards that - though I think some of that for me is to do with the disjunction of the canon POV and the fanwork POV e.g. it's weord to read 1st person Potter fic that is otherwise similar in style to the books, because the books were 3rd person. TV & movies tend to be 3rd person omniscient by default. But on the flipside, it would be a bit weird to read Harry Dresden fanfic in 3rd person.

2nd person I avpid like the plague in fanfic because most people who use it think they're much cleverer than they are but have actually just turned the wank factor up to 11. That isn't a judgement on 2nd person though, it's a judgement on people who use it with no clearcut narrative reason other than 'this makes my story seem deep & stuff'.