[ SECRET POST #2223 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2223 ⌋

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Comments

[nyxelestia]

I think it's kind of in the same camp as "OC = MARY SUE!" OCs aren't inherently bad, but so many of them have turned out to be Mary Sues that most people will avoid them from the get-go.

It's not that first person is inherently bad. It's just that a LOT of first person happens to really suck because for whatever reason, first person tends to be what really crappy and/or newly-writing, emerging authors tend to default to. Some people have run into so much of the crap it's ultimately easier to avoid first person altogether than trying to sift through it for the good stuff.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Really? That was my impression about third-person-omniscient, that was the lazy one.

Re: OP

[nyxelestia]

It may be fandom specific or something, or a reputation thing (a lot of the "infamously awful" fanfics tend to be first person, i.e. My Immortal) rather than statistical amounts. Though who knows, maybe a lot of people just genuinely think it's "bad", IDK. I personally don't like it for my own reasons unrelated to quality, but I would never say a fic is bad just because it's first person.

[velvet_mace]

I don't think that naive writers default to first person because it's first person. I think writers look more to first person if the fic is exclusively centered around one person's experiences rather than being a group thing -- because that's what the POV is good for.

But I've seen plenty, plenty, plenty newbie writers using 3rd person, so that they can switch back and forth between several characters and try to cover the story from all angles, lest the audience miss out on something. I see that actually a lot more often than first person, because it's a more obvious way to hack away at a story that has more than one character in it.