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⌈ Secret Post #4650 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get the hate for first person POV. What is so awful about it?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but the thing I don't like about it (and second person) is that it ruins the escapist experience that reading is for me. I don't want to be part of what I'm reading. That's not why I personally read.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, I've never had the perception that I'm the narrator in Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, or any of H.P. Lovecraft's stories.

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, it can be tricky to do it right. A lot of beginners write it instinctively in a very "Hi, my name is [character name] and I'm a slender sixteen year old girl with long, silver hair", etc. etc. sort of way. It feels very forced and artificial.

But when done well, it can be amazing how intimately it brings the reader into the story. It's just that few people can write it well.

[(Anonymous)]

I think first person POV is really hard to get right for me personally. Often characters just don't sound like real people or don't think of stuff a normal person would think about in that instant because plot or whatever. Plus, even in a first person narrative you often need to find a way to make it explicit what the characters around you POV character think without them being a mind reader AND still having to pull of your POV character realistically misinterpreting what the other is saying (I hope I'm making sense here). That takes skill.
There is also of course the chance that your POV character is vastly different from a big part of the readership which has the chance of being really exciting while totally off putting to the others.

Now, throw in writing from the viewpoint of a character that is not your own, that you only know through watching/reading about them from a 3rd person perspective and throw in that you probably have vastly other interpretations of that character than other parts of the fandom even if they agree with your ship/plot idea or whatever. The chances of their voice just sounding really "wrong" are high.
I can count the number of 1st person POV fics I've read (or rather started to read) in the last 15 years of fandom and LIKED on one hand.

[(Anonymous)]

SA: Oh god I should proof-read my past 1am posts. Please excuse all the typos.

[sabotabby]

FWIW it's entirely sensible and I feel the same.

[(Anonymous)]

It removes all of the interest and mystery of the character for me. I would rather be in the head of almost any other character pretty immediately.

FWIW, I generally hate voiceovers in TV shows for the same reason. With the exception of Veronica Mars... until Season 4. Ugh.

[(Anonymous)]

Unless it's a very good writer most of it just feels like the writer self-inserting themselves. First person combined with really OOC just makes it seem like something they should have kept in their heads.