A different point of view

[evergreengarden]

I started thinking today about the various points of view in literature.

I remember a lot time ago when I wouldn't even give a story a chance if it was written in first person. It's terrible, but true. I think it was mostly because I wasn't used to it. I felt caged by the perspective I was stuck with, and I had grown up reading stories that allowed

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[maudlinthemad]

I actually like writing in first person. It's third person that gives me trouble, being so detached and all. I like getting inside a character's head and thinking the way they think. I used to write a lot of stories about Shikamaru, because I felt like he and I were the same person, so maybe that's why. It made first person a lot easier. Of course, the one example I have of that on ff is the most ridiculous story on the planet. And the Lost story is first person as well, I think. I'm pretty sure my next story is going to be in first person, if I ever get my laptop fixed. :)

[evergreengarden]

First person is pretty fun. You get to really dig into that character and flesh them out. It does freak some people out, because they want to know what's going through other character's minds, but I like it that way. It makes for some mystery.

Pretty sure I'm going to have to check out "Desolate Amity" too. Because Sai is such a fascinating/kooky character. I just love him.

And your laptop is out of commission? I would cry. Except for the fact that I almost want my laptop to give up and die. I've had it for 4+ years (it was required for undergrad) and it just refuses to quit. So I can't get another one until this one konks out...which will probably be in the middle of an important paper, with my luck and all.

[maudlinthemad]

Mine is about four years old, too, but I'm really attached to it because it has so much of my stuff on it. And it's not really the laptop itself, but the adapter is broken, and the battery, so I have no way to use it. It's rather depressing. My stuff usually never breaks, no matter how poorly I take care of it.

I wrote DA in about a week and a half, I think, so it's fairly kooky in and of itself. It's a pretty fast read, I think. I didn't write it from Sai's pov, though, I probably will write something just for him at some point.

[kaze_no_tora]

I was kind of "eh..." on some first person things because some people just seem to put themselves and not their characters in it. I got in trouble once for first person because some interpreted a characters suicide as my own. I stick to second, it seems to make people more comfortable. I read both, it depends on the person it's funny when you read "I" because sometimes you imagine seeing everything through another pair of eyes instead of being the 'stalker'. :P

[evergreengarden]

Actually, I know what you mean. There have been some occasions where it stops being that character and starts becoming too much of someone else (aka the writer). And that's just a little...odd.

About the suicide ordeal--whoa. I never thought about that. Especially with such a tough subject, it would be difficult to explain that this was how you fleshed out the character and not how you actually felt.