Yeah, I know what you mean. First person is a delicate tense that requires attention to detail in a way that third person doesn't. You have to know when to use it, and know how to use it properly. Otherwise, I'm going to have to hit something. Just as you can't use third person for everything, so you can't use first person for everything.
I think it comes down to knowing when and how to use it, knowing in your gut that this story must be told in first person. Having characters turn up and tell you or hint at this also helps. It's fun to experiment with. If you haven't read Damaged People, I suggest you do. That was me experimenting to see if I could get a first person fic to sound like it has two voices instead of one, and apparently I succeeded. I think the joy in first person comes with experimenting with it like that, playing around with it to see what you can achieve while also knowing it's limitations as well. I say go for it. The more you write in it, the more you'll get to know what works and what doesn't.
Well, why go for an interpretation everyone else is using, especially if I have characters that aren't keen on those interpretations? That's an added challenge for me in doing Admish for the 50kinkyways challenge. For a lot of the prompts, I'm going to have to be rather liberal/lateral in my interpretations, since Adam and Hamish aren't into hardcore bondage at all. Hamish can't deal with the pain, and Adam can't stand hurting him like that. They care about each other far too much to be able to hurt each other like that. I will have absolutely no troubles with leather. They seem very keen on leather. But yes.
I'm not sure what I'll do for the non-con prompt, because planding non-con on either of them is not something I want to do, so that will require some thinking in how I can write that in a way that fits them.
It's all about knowing your characters and their limitations and beeing able to interpret the prompts in a way that works for them, and isn't just the same interpretation everyone else is using. Besides, I love the challenge of having to be very creative in my fics. Makes you think outside the square, to really consider what the prompts could mean.
Same with smut69. I'm doing Chris/Craig for that, so that should be fun, considering there's very little hint of any significant D/s aspects there, so with neither taking charge, I have to write them differently than I do Adam/Hamish. Though considering what I wrote for Wrong and Strained, yeah, that's a different interpretation. I hated writing what I wrote for Wrong. It's not often I hate my writing, or write something that just gives off the wrongness vibe, but I don't think anything else would've worked. But it's done and written now.
Right, I think that's enough paragraphs for now. ;) I could talk about it forever, but I'll stop now.
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Date: 2006-10-13 05:27 pm (UTC)I think it comes down to knowing when and how to use it, knowing in your gut that this story must be told in first person. Having characters turn up and tell you or hint at this also helps. It's fun to experiment with. If you haven't read Damaged People, I suggest you do. That was me experimenting to see if I could get a first person fic to sound like it has two voices instead of one, and apparently I succeeded. I think the joy in first person comes with experimenting with it like that, playing around with it to see what you can achieve while also knowing it's limitations as well. I say go for it. The more you write in it, the more you'll get to know what works and what doesn't.
Well, why go for an interpretation everyone else is using, especially if I have characters that aren't keen on those interpretations? That's an added challenge for me in doing Admish for the
I'm not sure what I'll do for the non-con prompt, because planding non-con on either of them is not something I want to do, so that will require some thinking in how I can write that in a way that fits them.
It's all about knowing your characters and their limitations and beeing able to interpret the prompts in a way that works for them, and isn't just the same interpretation everyone else is using. Besides, I love the challenge of having to be very creative in my fics. Makes you think outside the square, to really consider what the prompts could mean.
Same with
Right, I think that's enough paragraphs for now. ;) I could talk about it forever, but I'll stop now.