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First-Person Writing...
14 years ago
...is my biggest fad right now.
It's something I've been experimenting with going on several years now, and you can see at least one of my stories is told from a first-person perspective (another is in the works, and just needs to be finished), and...I love writing in that style so much. The perspective's not always the best way to write, and I still very much enjoy a story written or told in third-person, but when you are in the mood, when you've got something on your mind and it's like a fever right behind your eyes, there's no better way to get it out.
First-person perspectives lets you EMOTE. You get to CHANNEL everything that the character is feeling almost exactly as if it were you in that situation. Pain, humiliation, love, anger, sadness...the primal lusts and needs and fears that exist are best portrayed through the eyes and thoughts of the character, not from an outside viewpoint. It tends to work best in a situation or environment that you are familiar with, i.e. modern times, city life, a school or university... That way, you're knowledgeable about the slang, the politics, the current events, and you can channel that into dialogue or inner thoughts to make things flow a lot better, and to make your reader feel a lot more comfortable, too.
My other fad right now? Medieval-fantasy political intrigue, ala Game of Thrones and my new favorite series, A Memory of Flames. <3
It's something I've been experimenting with going on several years now, and you can see at least one of my stories is told from a first-person perspective (another is in the works, and just needs to be finished), and...I love writing in that style so much. The perspective's not always the best way to write, and I still very much enjoy a story written or told in third-person, but when you are in the mood, when you've got something on your mind and it's like a fever right behind your eyes, there's no better way to get it out.
First-person perspectives lets you EMOTE. You get to CHANNEL everything that the character is feeling almost exactly as if it were you in that situation. Pain, humiliation, love, anger, sadness...the primal lusts and needs and fears that exist are best portrayed through the eyes and thoughts of the character, not from an outside viewpoint. It tends to work best in a situation or environment that you are familiar with, i.e. modern times, city life, a school or university... That way, you're knowledgeable about the slang, the politics, the current events, and you can channel that into dialogue or inner thoughts to make things flow a lot better, and to make your reader feel a lot more comfortable, too.
My other fad right now? Medieval-fantasy political intrigue, ala Game of Thrones and my new favorite series, A Memory of Flames. <3
It's just easier to give the narrative a distinct voice when you're filtering the experience through a character that you know well. It gives you a license to be less an objective reporter reciting the bare facts and more of a storyteller. That's the way we naturally tell stories anyway: "Oh, you'll never believe what happened to me today! This and this and this happened, I couldn't believe it!"