tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066621724249194131.post791726962212492310..comments2023-09-13T03:40:00.337-07:00Comments on The Secret Life of Writers: Third vs. First: Perspective and IntimacyThe Secret Life of Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15424814452211945661noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066621724249194131.post-17548147871643728302014-02-24T10:50:21.707-08:002014-02-24T10:50:21.707-08:00I wrote in 3rd for years. I finally started experi...I wrote in 3rd for years. I finally started experimenting with 1st last year (at the insistence of a character) and I actually really like it. I haven't finished anything in 1st yet, but I didn't run into any of the troubles I thought I'd have with being bored with just one MC or getting sick of being in their head all the time. I just told the story, only in 1st, and it's working out pretty great. I think you can achieve that same kind of intimacy in 3rd (like you can achieve the same kind of distance in 1st), we just have to approach it a different way. krystal janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115542477066959046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066621724249194131.post-49525519446437798052014-02-24T07:02:51.439-08:002014-02-24T07:02:51.439-08:00Yes yes all of this! I will also add that third pe...Yes yes all of this! I will also add that third person can be really helpful for historical fiction (helloooo lads!). I couldn't tackle this WIP in first because I knew that a first-person voice in an Elizabethan setting wouldn't sound "true" to the time period, and that would take the reader (and me) out of the fictive dream of the story. Third person lets me give the prose a historical ~flavor~ without feeling bound to be all "dost thou want to imbibe some beeres"Blair Thornburghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01982242466959044114noreply@blogger.com