[ SECRET POST #6197 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6197 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno it feels like it's more like people just trying to say that first person is a thing that can work and should at least be allowed to exist. I don't want it to take over because other ways of writing are valid but I think it at least gets a place at the table.

[(Anonymous)]

The kiddie table, perhaps, given its abuse by modern YA writers and fanficcers.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd argue YA writers and fanficcers are using first-person in exactly the most appropriate way -- to make the point that the POV character is, in fact, the author herself.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's what first person is meant to be though. It's a story from the perspective of a character.

I know you're probably snarking about self inserts but first person doesn't mean author insert and that point of view has led people to misunderstand other novels in first person as being a statement by the author rather than the narrator.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's what first person is meant to be though.

That is precisely why I said 'the most appropriate way' and not 'as it is meant to be'.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

That is an extremely fine distinction - some would say practically nonexistent

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

I strongly disagree, but respect your interpretation.

[(Anonymous)]

The most appropriate way... in your opinion. Because no. Hard disagree.

[(Anonymous)]

Nice casual sexism with "herself." As if men haven't been writing obvious self inserts in third-person for centuries.

[(Anonymous)]

No-one is talking about centuries of male power fantasies. We're talking about modern YA and fanfic, two famously female-dominated fields.

But hey, nice virtue signaling.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah-- some people who hate first person are SO adamant. Like I've seen BAD first person but it doesn't erase good first person? And honestly if writing bad first person gets people writing, I think THAT should be out there, too! I don't want to be the Writing Police any more than I want someone else to be