First person Vs. third person Chars

[RicoLouis]

Which do you prefer. Reading a story where you can enter your name? Or reading a story following another characters POV? Of course there is a third opption of the nameless character. Personally I prefer to write my stories in a third person POV.

 

[Torg]

Which do you prefer. Reading a story where you can enter your name? Or reading a story following another characters POV? Of course there is a third opption of the nameless character. Personally I prefer to write my stories in a third person POV.

I prefer either first or third person, because when I'm done, I have a real story. I don't need to switch it from second person later. Most of the time, I'd use third, but some stories are better from first person.

 

[GoodBoy741]

I really like second person. It fits choose your own adventure stuff very well. Which is why I hate it in regular stories, second person feels very frustrating when I can't control the action.

I care nothing for entering a name. I always enter a fake name. This stuff isn't happening to me, so I'd rather pretend to be someone else so that it's happening to a fantasy me. In fact, in a second person story I'd rather the main character had no name at all, just to keep me from thinking about whether this is actually me or not.

1st and third person are almost the same thing to me. Someone else is telling the story. Whether that person is just a narrator or actually part of the events, it's not a significant difference. I think 1st person works better when the narration has an informal tone, but that's pretty minor.

 

[Zingiber]

Second person?

Which do you prefer. Reading a story where you can enter your name? Or reading a story following another characters POV? Of course there is a third opption of the nameless character. Personally I prefer to write my stories in a third person POV.

I tend to think of the "enter your name" as SECOND-person stories of the classic "choose YOUR own adventure" style where the questions are "What do YOU choose to do next?". I think the second person style works best when the hook questions actually involve the protagonist's choices, like, well, Dacia's magnum opus The Choices We Make.

Some stories work well that way, but it requires sharper attention to write well for a second-person story than a third-person story, which can shift focus and meander along in whatever direction and still work well.

First-person stories make the "second" person the reader to whom the first person is relating the stories.

There are some amusing games you could play with various characters seizing the first-person viewpoint and telling it like it is from their point of view. Or with some kind of perspective-jumping where "you" would be different from thread to thread. "Lay It Forward" has a device that could be used in this way, though this is a 3rd person story.

-Z.

 

[Torg]

There are some amusing games you could play with various characters seizing the first-person viewpoint and telling it like it is from their point of view. Or with some kind of perspective-jumping where "you" would be different from thread to thread. "Lay It Forward" has a device that could be used in this way, though this is a 3rd person story.

-Z.

One of my threads in Girlfriend and her Sister was turned into a rotating first person viewpoint by another author, and I liked it enough to continue it.

 

[RicoLouis]

I guess that also brings up the question of one central character vs multiple ones.

 

[Menoetes]

I believe the second person stories are great for feeling like you're involved in the story and accentuates the readers part in the fantasy, but I've just started writing another story in 3rd person (My first and most involved work being 2nd person) and though making the transition to 3rd person writing from second can be hard (I keep reverting to 2nd person by habit). But like Torg and Zingiber pointed out, 3rd person gives you the flexability to view from multiple character stand-points and strengthen the story that way.

It also gives greater variety to my erotic passages

 

[tan82]

This isn't something I've given all that much thought to. For a long time when I've been reading chyoo stories, I often haven't been able to remember whether it was third person when thinking back on it. Third person is usually my preferred kind of narration.

But looking at my bookmarked stories, I found that I actually liked a lot of stories written in second person. I think it works well with chyoo stories, but so do third person. I guess I can't really pick one between those two. To me it's more important that the correct perspective and narrative is kept throughout the story, and that's it's generally well written without too many glaring errors. That and the content itself, of course