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[sr71plt]

I disagree about first person. I like it, and I think it's the easiest to write. I know others who feel the same.

Yep, me too. I find it the easiest to use in writing erotica--and the easiest to reach intimacy with.

 

[Guest]

Yep, me to. I find it the easiest to use in writing erotica--and the easiest to reach intimacy with.

Me three.

Just sayin'...

 

[jill999]

I'm glad to know I'm not alone.

I disagree about first person. I like it, and I think it's the easiest to write. I know others who feel the same.

 

[starrkers]

I'll be the siddenting voice - I hate first person. Don't like writing in it, it's too limiting, and don't like reading it.
I hate being told what I do or feel, but that's just me. If the character is male, I have no empathy and first person narrative is often lazy that way - expecting instant recognition of feelings that are poorly described because of the "you've all been there" factor.

 

[tickledkitty]

I'll be the siddenting voice - I hate first person. Don't like writing in it, it's too limiting, and don't like reading it.
I hate being told what I do or feel, but that's just me. If the character is male, I have no empathy and first person narrative is often lazy that way - expecting instant recognition of feelings that are poorly described because of the "you've all been there" factor.

Always the siddenter.

I look at it almost like the main character telling their story to a friend. I'll even decide that I'm going to use third person and end up writing in first person anyway. I guess that's just how the characters speak to me.

 

[The_Fractal_King]

I'll be the siddenting voice - I hate first person. Don't like writing in it, it's too limiting, and don't like reading it.
I hate being told what I do or feel, but that's just me. If the character is male, I have no empathy and first person narrative is often lazy that way - expecting instant recognition of feelings that are poorly described because of the "you've all been there" factor.

Second person is really the one that tells you what you feel.

 

[Guest]

First is intimate.

The first stories I submitted here were in first. It seemed - naughtier - somehow.

And since that time I've actually removed some stories and rewritten others to third.

But yes, some needed to stay in first because it fit the theme better.

But third now feels more erotic to me, almost voyeuristic.

 

[freshface]

I wrote my first story in third person because it seemed the thing to do. My editor suggested that my third person version was fine but that first person was more intimate. I realized when I looked at it that I'd already written it in first person. All I had to do was change the narrator's name and half of the pronouns to me and I during the rewrite.

First person also makes Gay Male stories a lot easier to write. It can get really hard to properly identify which he or him goes to which character. (I imagine that's true in Lesbian stories too.)

 

[caprine]

Voice...

I have to come in on the first person side. I've done a little third person, but prefer first.