Second Person Stories

[NaughtyMike]

I hate a story written in second person, "then you do this, then you do that" and half the time the gender is wrong. Does anyone like second person writing? Maybe I just don't like being told "what I do".Thoughts??? Comments???

 

[garyblue]

what you said

The only way you could make "Then you went down on me..." worse would be "You go down ...."

I just won't read a second person story. That means the writer won't get the properly low grade or negative feedback. I'm long gone long before that option shows up.

Second person stories are self indulgent first person (the author's) wank fantasies. There is no connection to the reader.

Well, that's my story.

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[KillerMuffin]

Don't ever use second person.

If I said Never write in second person, she probably would just to get my goat. She's good like that.

So, don't ever use second person.

That said, my second person story has high ratings. It depends, as Alexander Tzara once said a very long time ago, how it's done. But most of them on this site suck turkey tittie.

 

[Whispersecret]

I dislike second person stories, and will reflexively back click when I find one. I find it annoying to be told what I am feeling, doing, etc. I usually have to read about a page before I can even find out the gender I'm supposed to be.

I also dislike present tense. It's awkward to read.

 

[P. B. Walker]

done. But most of them on this site suck turkey tittie. [/B]

lmao... <wipping diet coke from my monitor> that was too damn funny.

- PBW

 

[Guest]

My first erotic stories were "second person" viewpoint, primarily because they started out as fantasies for [erotic] penpals--and these were the way they wanted the stories written so they could become "involved". Later, I rewrote most of them to "first" and "third" person viewpoints for general readership.

Perhaps submissives may enjoy the second person viewpoint...

 

[susurrus]

Whisper, you mention present tense being hard to read. You ought to try writing it sometime. I've just written something I'll be submitting soon, and once I got into it, I realized I had to tell the whole damn thing in present. Present tense, third person! That's something I've never had to do before. It's something I hope I don't have to do again anytime soon. There's a consistency thing that you have to really edit the hell out of to make sure it isn't broken. Mainly this is because there will necessarily be snippets of past tense needed to keep the story from getting really frikkin ponderous.

Anyway, I'm going to submit that story soon after Christmas, and hopefully it works. I'd be really interested, Whisper, how it reads to you.

S.

 

[Tawny T]

If I see a second person story, I skip it, every time!

Have you EVER seen a book written like that? There may be some, but who reads them?

 

[alltherage]

I never have used that voice. It makes little sense to me and it bores the heck out of me to read a story written in second person.