How do you not know how you're feeling??? I scream at characters who think "I didn't know how I felt when he touched me". Gah!
HAHA I love this, it really made me laugh. Yes, I can imagine that would make 1st person very frustrating.
Your thoughts make a lot of sense. I think sometimes I have a short attention span, so a strong 1st person story helps to really grab my attention and root me into the fic. That's a plus for me. The more detached I feel from the characters, the harder I find it. And when I'm writing, I very much want to be in their heads. I don't usually know what my characters are thinking or feeling until I write myself into their headspace, and then it usually reveals itself without me putting much conscious thought into it. I really enjoy that sensation of surprise at something I've just written.
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Date: 2016-05-22 10:40 pm (UTC)HAHA I love this, it really made me laugh. Yes, I can imagine that would make 1st person very frustrating.
Your thoughts make a lot of sense. I think sometimes I have a short attention span, so a strong 1st person story helps to really grab my attention and root me into the fic. That's a plus for me. The more detached I feel from the characters, the harder I find it. And when I'm writing, I very much want to be in their heads. I don't usually know what my characters are thinking or feeling until I write myself into their headspace, and then it usually reveals itself without me putting much conscious thought into it. I really enjoy that sensation of surprise at something I've just written.