Writing in the first and second person.

[PennLady]

Yes. That is the point.

Often I/You stories are off-putting because they are one-sided. The Glynndah story brings 'you' fully into the frame, surely?

Just an aside, if you are writing I and 'you' stories, shouldn't 'you' be capitalized?

I don't know about the capitalization, but I can't say I've seen a story written that way. I don't think it should be but I don't know what guidelines there are on this.

I think, based on what I've read, that I/you stories are off-putting because the reader does not want to be part of the story that way. I don't -- I don't like being "told" what I'm doing or what I'm feeling. Relating to a character is one thing; being a character is another.

And I honestly didn't think the glynndah story brought "you" fully in. It was well-written and pretty humorous but it was all about "I", everything was the narrator. The "you" was passive.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I don't know about the capitalization, but I can't say I've seen a story written that way. I don't think it should be but I don't know what guidelines there are on this.

I think, based on what I've read, that I/you stories are off-putting because the reader does not want to be part of the story that way. I don't -- I don't like being "told" what I'm doing or what I'm feeling. Relating to a character is one thing; being a character is another.

And I honestly didn't think the glynndah story brought "you" fully in. It was well-written and pretty humorous but it was all about "I", everything was the narrator. The "you" was passive.

Take your point.

 

[sr71plt]

No, there's no grammatical reason to capitalize "you" even in true second person perspective.