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[a_potato]

...because it is not focused on writing about that experience from the viewpoint or to the implied audience of teenagers. It's only focused on writing about the perspective.

This really stuck out to me.

It seems that you potentially have trouble with books that attempt to write experiences from the viewpoints of particular characters/types of people rather than tackling overarching themes. Is this true? If not, what do you mean by "the perspective?"

[(Anonymous)]

That's a fair point. And to be honest, I'm not entirely sure what I meant by the word 'perspective' there.

I don't think it's a bad thing to write about books from the viewpoints of particular characters, or dealing with specificity rather than universality. I think those are both good and interesting things to do. But I think you can also talk about how those specific things are regarded, and about the perspective in which they're seen and described by the author. You know, the values and conceptual frameworks that are used to come to terms with it and think about it, and all that kind of thing. I don't think that's necessarily the same as tackling overarching themes. And I do think the perspective in that sense of something written to a teenage mindset is going to be limited.

I hope that's clearer, let me know if it's not, or if you think I'm being a dummy.

[a_potato]

I think I can see what you're saying. It sounds like it's more about the context of the character's experiences than whether or not the narrative is from the character's viewpoint.

Thought of another question, in regards to:

And I do think the perspective in that sense of something written to a teenage mindset is going to be limited.

Do you view using the first person as limiting an author's ability in a similar way? As I'm thinking about it, it seems like someone writing a narrative from that POV would have a much harder time doing what you're talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it is because I don't think someone writing from a first person POV is limited to inhabiting the subject's thoughts. It's a voice, right? At least conceptually, it's part of the world and the work in the same way that setting, style, emotional tone, etc are. Which is distinct from an author's perspective and methods of dealing with those things, if you follow.