[ SECRET POST #2505 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2505 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i.imgur.com/rXoGwpx.png

[ladysugarquill]

Anything can be written well. There must be a good one somewhere...

[jaybie_jarrett]

+1000

I agree. I get sick of seeing people say "don't ever write that it's just bad" on my Tumblr I saw an awesome convo between someone who felt bad about all the upset over love triangles because they had one. It resulted n a convo on how to write Love Triangles sensibly. *gets pen and paper to take notes*

[(Anonymous)]

Do you mean 2nd Person POV? Because those are hard for even professional authors to pull off, never mind fandom. I can see why people don't often attempt them.

[chardmonster]

...is there a Mary Sue/self insert writing competition/game anywhere? Like, a real one, not an unfunny badfic one? Because it'd be fun as hell.

EDIT: Oh, apparently you mean some kind of YOU ARE THERE style of writing.

The only good one I've seen is Wizard People, Dear Reader

[forgottenjester]

It's an interesting idea but, as you said, it's incredibly difficult to pull off well.

[silvereriena]

It'd be incredibly difficult to pull off well, but I'd be happy to find someone who could do it. Or, y'know, at least write one wherein the premise doesn't revolve entirely around Reader/Character Love Interest.
... Man, thinking about those brings me back to my Quizilla days of middle school.

Second Person POV can be hard to do well.

[(Anonymous)]

And I think something that might be a problem is that sometimes the reader can have author avatar issues. Which also happens sometimes in Original Character fic (I'm not talking about intentional self-insert, but rather where the author doesn't seem to realize that they have put themself (or an extra-shiny cooler-than-cool version) in the story.

[(Anonymous)]

I want to be on your side, but what I associate this with is dating sims and choose your own adventure books i.e. things where I get some kind of choice.
Why would I ever want to read a story telling me what I was thinking and saying? It was just end up being a second person POV fic with a terribly blank OC.

[gondremark]

Ever read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler"? It's a bizarre and convoluted and mind-bendy novel, and it's one of my favourites, and it's in second person. It doesn't leave the protagonist blank and let you be in the story, though. Instead, it gives you a reasonably well developed character (considering the "plot", this is an impressive feat), and then shoves the reader into his shoes, and it's a testament to good writing that this works as well as it does.