This post is for Alex Cavanaugh’s Insecure Writers Support Group (click the link for details on what that means and how to join. You will also find a list of bloggers signed up to the challenge that are worth checking out. The first Wednesday of every month, we all post our thoughts, fears or words of encouragement for fellow writers.
Today’s question is my own – What point of view do you prefer to write in?
In most of my writing I prefer to write in first person. I think this is partially because the reading I am drawn to is the first person format. I love to get inside a character’s head and know what they are thinking and why they are making the moves they make.
My novel, however, is written in third person because I include several different character perspectives. It is still in revision so that may change!
On another note, yesterday I picked up Bradbury’s 100 story collection from the library. It is a doorstop of a book and I am looking forward to diving into it at lunch time today! I use his writing as a mentor text and am excited to read and ponder!
I’m going to have to go find this Bradbury collection. A lot of people I know seem to be reading it all of a sudden.
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First off: Congratulations on your novel. I am happy for you.
First person is great. The unreliable narrator. I too enjoy hearing their thoughts and following their way.
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Third person is my favorite. I like to have a detachment between the teller and the events. Great question.
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I write in third person, because that’s the norm for the genre I focus on. But I love writing in first person, present tense. I probably should write more short stories so I can dabble in that POV more.
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I like to write in first person as well… I think it’s easier to express feeling this way…
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I’m also first person sorta writer! I prefer that to any other genre.
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