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First Person vs. Third Person
A-RokzStalker:
I'll probably e-mail you tonight or tomorrow.... I ended up busy today. Sorry!
Sevily:
--- Quote from: A-RokzStalker on November 10, 2010, 07:56:31 PM ---I'll probably e-mail you tonight or tomorrow.... I ended up busy today. Sorry!
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There's no rush. I'm not sure when I'll have time to read, I have to work about 80 hours next week. :crazy:
luna610:
Sevily, let me first say that I'm reading both your stories and I think you're doing a great job with first person. I've only written a couple little challenges so my opinion isn't much. lol. But for me, I'm the opposite. They've all been written in first person. Just like everyone else was saying...I put myself in their shoes and I think it's much easier to feel how they would feel and be able to describe their feelings. To me, it's like the automatic way to go. Every time I started a new challenge I thought about trying third person and I feel like the opposite of what you said. I was scared it would be like "Brian was sad, and then he cried." LOL.
I don't know, I'm not helping much...just agreeing with what others had said. As far as switching POV's, I think it's a great idea if it's organized. And good point to whoever mentioned this: make sure that if it's first person that they can tell the whole story. I've read stories before where it'll be first person from one view the whole time and then that person is unconscious all of a sudden and it switches to third. It's like ???
LOL
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: luna610 on November 10, 2010, 11:13:22 PM ---And good point to whoever mentioned this: make sure that if it's first person that they can tell the whole story. I've read stories before where it'll be first person from one view the whole time and then that person is unconscious all of a sudden and it switches to third. It's like ???
LOL
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LOL that is sooo true. I've gotten myself into that kind of a mess before; the first time I tried collaborating, we agreed to write the story in first person from Brian's POV since he was both of our favorite Boy, but since we hadn't planned out the story at all, we didn't realize we'd need to write scenes about AJ and Howie by themselves, and that by the end of the story, Brian would be unconscious in the hospital (this was my plane crash story LOL), so the whole first person thing kind of fell apart by the end.
luna610:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on November 10, 2010, 11:29:37 PM ---LOL that is sooo true. I've gotten myself into that kind of a mess before; the first time I tried collaborating, we agreed to write the story in first person from Brian's POV since he was both of our favorite Boy, but since we hadn't planned out the story at all, we didn't realize we'd need to write scenes about AJ and Howie by themselves, and that by the end of the story, Brian would be unconscious in the hospital (this was my plane crash story LOL), so the whole first person thing kind of fell apart by the end.
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I LOVE that story! I mean, I know you wrote it a long time ago...but I still love it :) But yeah, it's funny when that happens. Cuz then it's like "damnit!" Uhhh...switchi ng POV now! I used to hate reading stories where the POV switches but now it's like...it depends on how it's done. When you can't even tell whose POV you're reading because it's so back and forth it's confusing!
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