5/30/2023 0 Comments Stitching Snow by R.C. LewisI went back, changed it to first person, and it flowed from there. I started my very first manuscript in third person, got 5-10 pages in, and knew something wasn’t working. On the first count, well, that’s kind of a big generalization. One criticism of first-person narrative was that it’s what newbie, amateur writers default to, and they don’t have the skills to do it well. I’m addressing the “present tense” part over on From the Write Angle, so here I’ll focus on first person. Recently I heard a well-known author state that (paraphrasing) writing a story in first person is a terrible idea, shouldn’t be done, and that writing it in present tense is even worse. (The hosting service for my website is having a bad day, so I'm cross-posting this here for now.)
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