Thoughts on writing in the first person. I feel more comfortable with it, but what are your thoughts? Does it put you off? Please, thoughts?
Same, I hear this all the time but I see no problems with past, present, first, second or third. As long as it's well written.I never understood the hate-on for first person. I've even heard that only bad writers or first time writers write in it...that it's lazy, etc, etc, etc.
It's my favourite to read and it's my favourite to write.
My latest is! I'm wondering if I made a HUGE mistake. But damned if I'm gonna go back and change all 90k now.S
But of course my first novel is written in third person present so there's a group who just hates that.
That's what I told the person editing it. If I fail at writing in that narration I'll just make the sequel the impervious and safe third person past narration.My latest is! I'm wondering if I made a HUGE mistake. But damned if I'm gonna go back and change all 90k now.
As long as it's well written.
But of course my first novel is written in third person present so there's a group who just hates that.
I'm not a fan of first, but if the story requires it...
Most of my novels and short stories are in close third, but two of them were all wrong in that tense and demanded to be written in first. So I did.
Brian Keene does pretty well in first. His narrators all tend to sound alike after awhile, though.
To each their own Jamesaritchie.