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⌈ Secret Post #2208 ⌋

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Comments

First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

That's all I'm saying, really. Authors have to be gifted to churn out a decent first person story. Unfortunately, 95% of authors are not that talented, and so most first person fic is utter shit.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's any harder than anything else.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

This

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[velvet_mace]

+1. I think the current fad for hating on it, is just that. A meritless fad.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I thought it was omniscient third that only lazy untalented people used.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

Proof you're not talented enough right there. When first person's done wrong, it sounds like the author, not the character...and most of it does.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

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That was supposed to sound like the author, I was answering as myself.

I'm trying to come up with any characters I write in the first person who might respond to you, but many of them don't come from a background where discussing writing point-of-view makes a lot of sense. (There's one I've occasionally written in the second person as a source-material-based affectation.)

Writing convincingly in the first person is no more difficult than writing convincing dialogue. If you have the character's voice, you're good.

Now, if you have an idiosyncratic perception of what characters' voices are, you might believe all first person fics you read are terrible, but that's a matter of opinion.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

90% of everything is utter shit. What makes first-person fic so special?

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

Because 99.9999999999999% of it is utter shit.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

It is no harder than any other style. 95% of all fic is utter shit, so that statement means squat.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

You people and your pulled-from-ass percentages. Is it so hard to believe that some narrative choices just result in better stories unless handled extremely well? You can throw a lolcat anywhere on the internet and hit at least one decent third person fic. The same cannot be said for first person.

Sorry for insulting your-headcanon-diary-pretending-to-be-fic, but there it is.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

You can easily find a good third person fic simply because there IS more third person fic in the first place. The proportion of good fic to bad is likely similar for both POVs.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

My but someone's angry. What did the nasty first person do to poor you?

Is it that hard to understand that your preferences with regards to narrative choices are not universal?

As for 'pulled-from-ass percentages', why, you very funny person. Look at the first comment using them.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

One wonders if anon has ever heard of Theodore Sturgeon, or if it's just us stodgy old folks who read and loved him back in the day.

Re: First person requires an extremely talented author

[(Anonymous)]

Anon has heard of him, doesn't like him, and thinks Sturgeon's Law is stupid but somehow the motto of the internet.