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First Person or Third Person?

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Aminar:

--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on October 19, 2011, 04:29:33 PM ---I've always thought of first-person as a convenient narrative construct; the inside of my head does not work like a first-person singular narrative at all, most of the time, there are very very few circumstances in which things are happening in my mind one at a time and there are no standard ways of communicating the sort of parallelism that's more natural to me in text.  Third singular is equally alien, though, so from where I stand there's not that much of a difference.

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I'm trying to get that parallel thought process down into writing.  Unfortunately it makes ridiculously complicated thought trains for my characters and I find myself trying to show all the thoughts that lead to decisions while in third person.  It's working, although unintentionally at times...

First Person is more a problem of I have no idea how to structure the sentences.

Figging Mint:

--- Quote from: Aminar on October 20, 2011, 06:19:39 AM ---First Person is more a problem of I have no idea how to structure the sentences.

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Diaries help with that quite a bit.

Madd:
I've always liked the limits that the First Person narrative imposes on the writer.  Plus I like getting in the head of the characters I'm reading.

۞†Grey Warden†۞:
I feel way more connected to the character in first person. I also care more for the people that character cares about becuase it brings forth a restraint that hey he died and i had to see it with my eyes rather then read about it in the paper.

Enchantedwater:
Tis the age old question.  There is often no right answer. It all depends on what you hear in your head when you wire. How often does the character narrate and how often are you narrating?

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