Your favorite way to write?

[BigusDickus]

I find it easiest and best to write stories using the "first-person" format (writing it from the person's perspective).
I have tried the other ways but I can't get involved using those other forms including the "outsider/God viewpoint" approach.

 

[Clare Quilty]

I like to write from a second person omniscient POV.

As you make your way through the inky darkness of the abandoned mine shaft, unbeknowst to you a killer lurks in the shadows listening to your approaching foot-falls--an already gore besmattered pick-ax silently at the ready.

 

[Guest]

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

I tried the third person, second person view but it didnt work! I like using the first person I view best I can type for HOURS using that view.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

12th person. All of it is based on some guy's remembering of something someone told this other guy at a bar about this news article about some news report using information from a foreign newspaper investigating a report about what some guys saw of the incident.

Actually third-person omniscent or limited is the best for my purposes, but I dabble in first-person stream of consciousness.

 

[Belegon]

I am definitely most comfortable in first person.

 

[Boota]

I like to mix it up according to what I'm trying to achieve with the story. I love writing in first person, but it takes discipline not to slip into third person accidentally. Third person just feels more natural to me. I wrote my novel in first person strictly for the nature of the jokes and it went pretty smoothly, but I had to practice and work at it.

 

[Guest]

12th person. All of it is based on some guy's remembering of something someone told this other guy at a bar about this news article about some news report using information from a foreign newspaper investigating a report about what some guys saw of the incident.

LOL Luc!

And why haven't you invaded my bedchamber lately???

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

LOL Luc!

And why haven't you invaded my bedchamber lately???

<mumble lame excuse and grab overnight bag that clunks way more than it should if it only contained bathroom supplies and change of clothes>

 

[Guest]

<mumble lame excuse and grab overnight bag that clunks way more than it should if it only contained bathroom supplies and change of clothes>

*sigh*

Want some pie?

 

[tolyk]

My favorite way to write:

Every way I can try. I like to switch it up. First person perspective, third person narrative, third person dialogue, and it all depends on what kind of story I'm writing..

Once I finish a story sometimes, I will go back and edit the entire thing and change the perspective on it, because I feel it was better suited for a certain perspective. It is all about perspective you know

 

[Xelebes]

I cut up words and arrange them rhythmically. If they happen to make sense cool, otherwise producing a cool psychadelic garble. Tenses are usually random and never matter to me.

 

[curious2c]

Here we go...I always get confused with this...but...

first person and third person...second is too difficult to get just right so it can be taken well. I know I usually won't read a story that sounds like the lead character is speaking to me...or in my head.

I like to see the story from the characters POV, and that is what I do best. Ummm...I think that is what I do best...heh...*knocks on wood desk*

 

[Alex De Kok]

My earliest stuff is mostly first-person, my later stuff mainly third-person limited omniscience. I like both, and will choose whichever suits my story. I don't care for second-person. In my opinion, and I emphasise my opinion, second-person only works for an audience of one. I've only ever written one second-person story, for a particular reader. She loved it, and with her agreement I rewrote it in third-person and submitted it here. Of all my stories, it has the most votes . . .

Alex

 

[sincerely_helene]

I used to adore the idea of first person, as I felt it a great way to relate to the main character on a personal level. Now that my interests have evolved beyond poetry and more into short stories, I am finding it difficult to effectively portray my subjects in such a manner.

"She teasingly probed her fingertips along the sticky surface of her reddened protuberance" sounds far more appealing and less pompous than
"I teasingly probed my fingertips along the sticky surface of my reddened protuberance."

('Course, substitute "protuberance" with "sopping tunnel" and you may just achieve support no matter what point of view you choose to impliment.)

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Your favorite way to write?

I wrote my first stories in first person as well. Primarily, I guess because they were well, personal.

However, for more recent stuff, most of which is rotting away on my hard drive, I find 3rd person less limiting (and more challenging) because you get to mess with everybody's head.

L

The most inspiring way to write is at Abstrusions wiith vella hog tied at my feet.

:blink:

i think im likin that!


I like third person and my first stories are written that way, however, recently, ive taken to first person for some reason.

go figgah.

 

[X Writer]

Definately 3rd person, with lots of 1st person thoughts.

Makes it personal, without attempting to transform the reader into something they may not identify with.

 

[bloodsimple]

Depends on the story -

First person is much more emotionally charged and easier for the reader to connect to, but it does restrict the reader to what the first person knows and experiences. In some stories, that could get claustrophobic and restrictive.

Third person is better in a more complex story, or one where there are a number of characters, but if the story is more of a one-on-one then it can come across as a bit clinical.

My big problem is tenses. My last one was written mainly in the present tense, and I spent all night trying to change my compulsion to write in past tenses.

And failed.

 

[nushu2]

First person can be very limiting. Erotic stories have to be a single perspective and that would be conservative if the character is conservative. However, this perspective can be very challenging to write. My first erotic story, not posted here, was from the view of a lawyer that lied to himself and justified his actions. The whole story was a lie and the reader had to read between the lines, and the hints, to find the truth. Naturally, nobody got it, but it was fun to write. The other fun thing about first person narrative is that it's like acting, where you absorb yourself in a personna.

For my latest story, I tried third person but was focused and sympathetic with the main character rather than just an uninvolved narrative. It was a bit of a tightrope and I lost balance a few times.

Second person is just too awkward to even attempt.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

First or third. I've done a couple of second, but they don't go over very well and I don't care for them much.

 

[BlackSnake]

I usually use the 3rd person POV, because I feel that I'm listening to a story being told that I wouldn't keep saying to myself "Oh, there's is no in hell I would do that". I could never get into the first person, and to me the 3POV sounds like fiction.

 

[pop_54]

Depends on whether the story is primarily fact based with a little spicing up... or a work of pure fiction... If you need to second guess other peoples thoughts and feelings... or just portray your own, and let the reader do the second guessing... I've used all three methods depending on the needs of the tale.

I do find it so much easier to be an observer taking liberties with peoples thoughts and feelings rather than a participant with a single viewpoint, so 3rd POV is best for fiction as BS says.

Mind you I do like to experiment and some things I've written would challenge even the most open minded to place into a fixed category.