Write what the muse gives you, I say. (Write what you want to read, SU Pacat said.) People aren't complaining about you writing in 1st person, right? They're saying they didn't expect to like it but they did. So you're expanding their horizons. It's okay if a few people decide not to read it. If you follow what gives you pleasure and inspiration, you'll probably write more, and with more joy and verve. Which might mean more of your work gets read anyway.
I don't think about what person something is written in when I start to read it. I can like 1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person switching, 3rd person omniscient... (I have to check what 2nd person is - I get confused between a narration of what "you" are doing and an address to "you", if that makes sense). I can also like lots of adverbs and telling without always showing, for that matter, if I like the author's voice. Is it intelligent, funny, moving, insightful, lyrical, honest, charmingly goofy? Those things are more important to me and less easy to quantify.
pir8fancier has written some great fanfic in 1st person, and hers were some of my early favorites, so I never had an expectation of not liking 1st person in fanfic. And I've also read lots of original fiction I loved in 1st person.
Call me Ishmael Huckleberry Finn Plunk Smalley khalulu.
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Date: 2016-05-22 05:11 am (UTC)Write what the muse gives you, I say. (Write what you want to read, SU Pacat said.) People aren't complaining about you writing in 1st person, right? They're saying they didn't expect to like it but they did. So you're expanding their horizons. It's okay if a few people decide not to read it. If you follow what gives you pleasure and inspiration, you'll probably write more, and with more joy and verve. Which might mean more of your work gets read anyway.
I don't think about what person something is written in when I start to read it. I can like 1st person, 3rd person limited, 3rd person switching, 3rd person omniscient... (I have to check what 2nd person is - I get confused between a narration of what "you" are doing and an address to "you", if that makes sense). I can also like lots of adverbs and telling without always showing, for that matter, if I like the author's voice. Is it intelligent, funny, moving, insightful, lyrical, honest, charmingly goofy? Those things are more important to me and less easy to quantify.
pir8fancier has written some great fanfic in 1st person, and hers were some of my early favorites, so I never had an expectation of not liking 1st person in fanfic. And I've also read lots of original fiction I loved in 1st person.
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Ishmael Huckleberry Finn Plunk Smalleykhalulu.