[ SECRET POST #4469 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4468 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

so what is the proper form? because outside of choose your own adventure books I can't imagine a story where I would want to be reading "you" every sentence.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll use it sometimes for short, hyper-emotional fics. When the emphasis is on what the POV character is feeling, not solving a mystery or fighting crime or some such, and I want the reader to feel like they're inside their skin.

It can be a lot of fun, though it's not my everyday.

[(Anonymous)]

Epistolary fiction, and fiction where it's clear that the narrator's voice is directed to a specific person. Bastion, the game, had a brilliant twist about the listener of a second-person narrative.

[(Anonymous)]

It can be done. One of my favourite authors wrote a second person story and you barely notice after the first sentence.

[(Anonymous)]

Check out the story How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore.

[(Anonymous)]

The best way it's been described to me is that you're a character's shadow.

'I' is the character, internal to them, and prone to extreme unreliability
'You' is the character's shadow, a half-step away from them, and able to observe discrepancies/internal conflict in the character
'He/She/They' is not the character, external to them, and (generally) has no narrative presence, just communicates the narrative