I'm totally one of those people who tends to avoid 1st person fic. But for me, it's just in fanfic. I have no particular preferences when it comes to orig fiction. And it's mostly just with characters that I'm close to--either ones that I write a lot or have strong feelings about, etc. And it isn't about 1st person per se--not particularly liking that style. It's more about voice-agreement. If the character is one I have strong preferences about (like Harry or Draco) and the author's 1st person's voice for that character doesn't agree with my own preferences, it's jarring for me. I'm not saying that my preferences are right or canon or whathaveyou and the author's are wrong--not by ANY means. It's just a quirk. It's just much easier to handwave things in 3rd person rather than 1st. I'm sure I miss out on some excellent fic because I'm weird.
Also, I'll add on, in smutty scenes, it's easier to get squicked in first person, for me. And squicked might be too strong a word, but there can be little things in sex scenes that I don't particularly enjoy -- nothing huge -- and usually I can just skim or handwave those little bits, but it's so much harder to do that in first person because there's less distance between the reader and the POV character.
I don't know if this is making sense! I hope so! But yeah, it's nothing to do with 1st person being generally horrible for me! LOL! It's more that I'm picky about things and it's a lot easier to ignore little things that I don't like in 3rd person rather than 1st. I guess that's the main thing. But as a writer, I have written in both 1st and 2nd POV because that's the way the story came out and wanted to be written. And I certainly wouldn't want people to stop writing how they want to write just because I'm so picky and weird!
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Date: 2016-05-20 06:32 pm (UTC)Also, I'll add on, in smutty scenes, it's easier to get squicked in first person, for me. And squicked might be too strong a word, but there can be little things in sex scenes that I don't particularly enjoy -- nothing huge -- and usually I can just skim or handwave those little bits, but it's so much harder to do that in first person because there's less distance between the reader and the POV character.
I don't know if this is making sense! I hope so! But yeah, it's nothing to do with 1st person being generally horrible for me! LOL! It's more that I'm picky about things and it's a lot easier to ignore little things that I don't like in 3rd person rather than 1st. I guess that's the main thing. But as a writer, I have written in both 1st and 2nd POV because that's the way the story came out and wanted to be written. And I certainly wouldn't want people to stop writing how they want to write just because I'm so picky and weird!