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By: PurpleRanger

PurpleRanger — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:02:27 +0000

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in first person. And if you want someone even older than Dante, I seem to recall that THE ODYSSEY was written in first person.

By: Aden

Aden — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:17:27 +0000

As long as it works for the story, it works, and damn the torpedoes.

By: JenWriter: With my freeze ray, I will stop the world. » POV & Genre

JenWriter: With my freeze ray, I will stop the world. » POV & Genre — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:26:06 +0000

[...] was surprised to read a post on Diana Peterfreund’s blog where she says she has run into arguments about first person POV being a lesser POV, only to be [...]

By: C.L. Wilson

C.L. Wilson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:23:15 +0000

Vive la difference!

Hmmm…wonder how many people told Picasso “you’re doing it WRONG!” ‘kay, I’m not a Picasso fan, but it was his blinking canvas and HE decided how to paint it.

back to the deadline hole.

By: B.E. Sanderson

B.E. Sanderson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:45:38 +0000

You tell ‘em, Diana. To paraphrase an old saying: Those who can, write. Those who can’t, sit around telling other people how not to write. (And calling other people hacks for not listening to their sage wisdom.) Bah and Feh. Write the story the way it needs to be written and screw all the ‘helpful advice’ (which is often not so helpful).

:steam:

By: Justine Larbalestier

Justine Larbalestier — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:35:14 +0000

I am rolling my eyes. I am so sick of all this rubbish about pov. It’s boring rubbish. Personally, I aim to have published books in all povs before I die.

In other words, what you said, Diana.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:25:25 +0000

Patrick enjoyed this entertaining post.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:56:13 +0000

I’m working on a YA (while working on AToD)and after writing the first chapter, I’ve realized it needs to be first person. To be honest, it scares me. I’ve never written in first person. Sure, I’ve taken a scene or two and wrote them that way to figure which POV the scene should acutally be in, but that wasn’t the it stayed in the book. To be honest it scares me. For the longest time, I thought writing in FP would oh-so-easy, not. It takes a lot of work to write in FP and still convey what’s going on with the other characters. Which you do so very well.

By: Bill Clark

Bill Clark — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:48:25 +0000

I say, long live FPPOV! I recently finished my first novel, and am working away on the sequel – still FFPOV, but a different person. The books themselves – nay, the characters themselves – demanded to be written this way.

For an outstanding novel written from two different FPPOVs, I recommend Geraldine Brooks’ “March”. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:21:27 +0000

Blurgh, I speak from experience when I say that writing multiple first person POV narrators is really hard. I’m just so wary of anyone who puts limits on creativity like that, saying you shouldn’t use this device or that device. Writing classes/professors can be so hit-or-miss.