What's your favorite point of view when writing?

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

No, so far they haven't migrated from your universe to mine. Although Quinn, she can come on over ANY time she wants.

No, I'm about to have another demon child walk into my world; there's one already in this thing of mine, and now her daughter's come of age...

"Oo! Can I? Can I go see the Floating World?"

I think EB was joking, Quinn.

"Adam sounds cute. I like older guys."

I know you do, Quinn.

"Can I come too?"

"Of course you can, Leslie. We're a team."

I think Adam has enough problems to deal with right now without adding you two into the mix.

"It's summer in Australia now. You can wear that backless sundress again."

"We'll have to get you some luggage."

"And power adapters, because the outlets are different."

I AM TRYING TO MAKE DINNER HERE, GIRLS!

This is your fault, EB.

 

[ElectricBlue]

This is your fault, EB.

Adam looked up from his coffee, sensing movement in the ether.

Time for another coffee, before the plane landed.

 

[My I]

I like to be sitting directly in front of the screen with it slightly above eye level.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Adam looked up from his coffee, sensing movement in the ether.

Time for another coffee, before the plane landed.

At Phuket.

 

[PuckIt]

I feel like first and third are equally balanced in their strengths and weaknesses. Lately I've leaned toward first in my writing. While it only allows me to focus on one person whose reflections on other characters' thoughts and motives are merely speculative, it allows me to burrow into that one character's head. There's also something unique about first person that allows me to play with the language they're using to 'write' the story.

For instance, yesterday morning I got a random itch and hammered out 2000 words of what is turning into a (non-Lit intended, non-erotic) fantasy satire/parody story, and there were places where my main character's jaded cynicism came alive in the way he was describing people and using wordplay.

When I tried to do that in third person in my earlier writing days I often ran into an issue where my omniscient narrator's voice sounded too much like character dialogue. But I've had a chance to tweak that over the years.

The majority of my Lit submissions were the third person, though in the future may have more of first. After all, erotica gains a certain flavor in first—it's like VR porn!

Oddly, I'm backward from just about everybody. Decades ago when I first tried writing, I went straight to the 3rd person limited omniscient for my fiction efforts and only used the first person in my horrific poetry.

These days, though, I stick to the first person. I find, for me, it helps me to explore the universe I'm creating from the ground eye level and time the flow of reveals so they would make sense to any unfortunate souls who find my stuff and lack the sense to back away (slowly so as not to draw attention).

On the down side, using the first person, I also tend to find myself scraping painstaking plots and freestyling through something close to "stream of consciousness" that I call "Texas Two-Step;" Two shuffling steps forward, one back.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Those girls still squabbling, Loqui?

"Write me first."

"No, me!"

Oh, all right, I'll write you both together.

"Oh goodie, write me blonde."

"No, me blonde. You were blonde last time. Bitch."

Loqui turns over, hoping for some peace and quiet.

So, Susan and Michelle have found someone else to bother. Who would have thunk it. Those two kept me up more nights than I can remember. Hundreds of thousands of words pour out onto the keyboard faster than I could type them.

 

[Hypoxia]

The voices in my head don't argue for attention. They issue commands. I always obey my voices.

Meanwhile, I recognize third, second, first, and zero person voices. Zero person is in technical writing where no personas exist at all. 'I' and 'you' may be implied without being explicit. No pronouns, only descriptions and orders, same as my voices. If Pilot were still here, he'd argue with that. Tough.

Second person is an abomination in prose and ridiculously easy in verse and lyric.

 

[jehoram]

For what it's worth, I think that pretty much all my erotica is first-person, since it puts the reader more in contact with the character. Let's face it, when it comes down to the orgasm, it's all about you and what you're feeling, and not the partner.

For non-erotic stuff, it's mostly third person.