Just out of curiosity ...

[sholio]

Yeah, I'm using radio buttons so you have to pick one. *g* This doesn't mean that you'd never read something written in first, or rotating third -- just what you're most comfortable reading, or what might tip the balance if you had to choose between two very similar-looking books or stories. (I'm leaving off second entirely ...)

[Poll #1600796]

Feel free to elaborate on your answer in comments, if you like!

Comments

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

First, Hello! It's been a long time! I've been slacking sooooo much. I go through anti-computer periods. Kinda sucks because I lose track of people I love, but it helps my brain refresh, for some reason.

Second, I pretty much agree with everyone else. (Well, I haven't read all the comments, but those I did read seem to be similar in feeling so....) I'm good with 1st or 3rd or whatever floats the author's boat in orginal fic, but in fanfic, first person drives me up the frikkin wall, unless it's an OC. And its for the same reasons as everyone else has already brilliantly elaborated above.

Third, my biggest bitch right now is trying to convert something from 3rd person omniscient, which I've grown to dislike (but everything I wrote for the first seven years of fanfic writing is in that style), to third person limited/rotating between several characters. It's unbelievably hard. I keep giving up on the "novel" because the POV is killing me. I just want to burn it and start again, but it seems such a waste to lose everything I've done. Alas.