Which POV do you enjoy to read?

[Dan76]

Please vote

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The one that fits the story.

 

[MLyons]

I can't vote. I'm good with all of the above if they're written well.

I can't say that I've ever read a 1st person unknown gender story, though.

 

[CharleyH]

I can't vote because there's only one choice. I will say that I prefer to WRITE in 1st person, and enjoy reading any p.o.v. that is well written

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I can't vote. I'm good with all of the above if they're written well.

I can't say that I've ever read a 1st person unknown gender story, though.

Try the Non-Human and Sci-Fi sections.

 

[Guest]

Can't vote. POV is just a literary technique. I don't think about it when judging a text.

Perdita

 

[Dan76]

I can't vote. I'm good with all of the above if they're written well.

I can't say that I've ever read a 1st person unknown gender story, though.

I have, it's different. It was a voyuoer story. Sounds like too much of a challenge for me though.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I have, it's different. It was a voyuoer story. Sounds like too much of a challenge for me though.

Not to nit-pick, but that sounds like a 3rd person participant narrator story, not first person unknown.

 

[curious2c]

I tend to like second or third person stories. However once in a while a really good first person will suck me in. I just can't deal with a story in which someone is describing me as being in a scene. If I am not into that story line, it just turns me off. Not only sexually, but in many cases, intellectually as well.

I try to write second or third person mostly. Rarely will I get into first person. Only if the story or character view demands it, and then only briefly. Usually, I like the reader to be as if a bystander instead of directly involved.

 

[Dan76]

Not to nit-pick, but that sounds like a 3rd person participant narrator story, not first person unknown.

No, it was first person, there was interaction. I would send you a link if I had any hopes of finding it again, but honestly, I just don't care enough to look hard.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I tend to like second or third person stories. However once in a while a really good first person will suck me in. I just can't deal with a story in which someone is describing me as being in a scene. If I am not into that story line, it just turns me off. Not only sexually, but in many cases, intellectually as well.

I try to write second or third person mostly. Rarely will I get into first person. Only if the story or character view demands it, and then only briefly. Usually, I like the reader to be as if a bystander instead of directly involved.

I think you're getting your POVs mixed.

 

[curious2c]

I think you're getting your POVs mixed.

Oops...strike that...reverse it.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

No, it was first person, there was interaction. I would send you a link if I had any hopes of finding it again, but honestly, I just don't care enough to look hard.

It's ok, it doesn't matter. My answer will still be the same: every story needs to be told in the way it is most befitting to that particular story.

A sort of literaty Genus Loci.

 

[Dan76]

Cool. I wish I added an option for doesn't matter. Mod help please?

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

I'm stumped, I like writing in 1st person but I like reading in any POV

I'm trying to get into writing other POV's but its hard!

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

I enjoy any story in first person if it's done correctly and fits the story. I mainly write first person, even though some tell me it's that 3rd person is easier to write.

 

[shereads]

When I'm reading for, um, illicit purposes, not that it happens that often or anything, my needs are basic: male/female story (or the rarer male/female/male) from the male's point of view, provided the male knows how to push a female reader's buttons. Beyond that, all I require is extraordinary writing. I'm easy to please.

 

[gauchecritic]

Cool. I wish I added an option for doesn't matter. Mod help please?

Never actually tried it but I think number of options can be changed if you edit the first post. Ask Sher The Poll Queen.

If you add "I hate second person" I'll vote for that. Although I did read a story in which the main part was a letter to a lover in the second person, that worked quite well. Lauren's Masturbatory Musings by Bridget Keeney.

Gauche

 

[shereads]

Never actually tried it but I think number of options can be changed if you edit the first post. Ask Sher The Poll Queen.

Not the Queen, precisely, although I was voted Miss Congeniality in the Polling Pageant. Next year, I hope to do better in the swimsuit competition by wearing stiletto sandals.

 

[gauchecritic]

I just noticed there's an 'edit poll' link just under the poll itself, but it says moderators only, umm. Any? Some? or not?

Gauche

 

[Lauren Hynde]

There are no AH moderators, so you're better off starting a new one.

"I hate second person" is another of those silly things. We all hate second person stories, because most people who try it fail miserably. Which in itself only means there is something wrong with the authors, not the technique.

 

[Guest]

"I hate second person" is another of those silly things. We all hate second person stories, because most people who try it fail miserably. Which in itself only means there is something wrong with the authors, not the technique.

Lauren, I don't 'hate' second person, but I think this has to do with more than technical skill. Are you saying that in centuries of "writing" that is why there is a lack of good second person narratives? P.

 

[cantdog]

I get real tired of reading first-person fuck stories here. First person is so limiting. And the constant I-me-my. Give me everyone's viewpoint, tell me a story.

I experimented with first person in some stroies-within-the-story. I felt I had to keep the first-person story within the bounds of what a person would actually say if they were telling the other character some memory. The result has been one of my very weakest posts here.

A lot of first-person stories here do not sound like a real person reminiscing, but include things they can't have known, or otherwise violate the limits of the POV. They do it because they get trapped and the story needs it, but why do that? If you need third person to really tell it, then for heaven's sake really tell it!

cantdog

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Lauren, I don't 'hate' second person, but I think this has to do with more than technical skill. Are you saying that in centuries of "writing" that is why there is a lack of good second person narratives? P.

In "centuries of writing" there have been stacks of masterpieces written in 2nd person, Perdita. There is a comparative lack because it is much more difficult to get it right* if you don't know what you're doing - as most writers (certainly most Literotica writers) admittedly don't, and especially today, when second person porn is associated with chatroom wankers.

*Getting it is usually not a technical question, but one of setup and development of the story itself, of its nature - the same literary Genus Loci I was referring to before in this and Abs' threads.

 

[Liar]

Of course, it all depends on the story, and

From a writer's point of view, I do enjoy writing in first perspective, where the twists and turns of an unfolding story can be retold through the eyes of one character gradually finding out what is going on. I can see what cantdog mean though. It'll have to be well written for me to stand reading a first person story here. But when it's good, it's good.

I find that it is harder to stay true to the form if going with omniscient 3rd person, because I feel obliged to share thos 3rd persons science with the readers. That way I can't hold off telling them too early, that it was the butler, with the baseball bat, in the library.

2nd person is too weird to even adress at 3 in the morning...unless you're Lauren.

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