How Fiction Works Q#1 Points of View

[campylobacter]

What style of narration do you usually write in?

• 3rd PPoV limited: 18 stories
• 1st PPoV singular: 11 stories
• 3rd PPoV omniscient: 2 stories (both are crack)
• script format: 2 (both crack)
• 2nd PPoV: 1 recipe (crack)
• 1st PPoV plural: 0

FYI: 5 fanworks included above are in VERSE. bwahahaha

Which do you prefer to read?

Whichever style suits the story best. :D

Are certain styles superior to others? Why or why not?

• First person singular 99% of my email, blog posts, and Tweets are written in 1st PPoV, so it's a natural style for my writing. I love the immediacy of emotion, the behind-the-eyes point of view when I read something done well in this PoV. Narrating action in this PoV is a challenge, and I love when an author handles action sequences seamlessly in this style. However, I HATE when this style is exploited for monotonous introspection AKA navel-gazing. UGH. fap fap fap
• first person plural We must stop procrastinating, Our Beloved, and write Hathor fic.
• second person singular You know you wanna dooooooo eeeeeeeeet!
• third person limited campy sure needs to stop using this style as the easy default for achieving a fic deadline.
• third person omniscient campy & shakespherical use this style for crack & badfic because that's how they roll.

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Comments

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

Fun, but no way am I going through 100+ of my fics to fill it in...

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

LOL The original meme didn't ask for a number count, but I was in a statistical mood. (Plus, my opus is a third the size of yours.)

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

We must stop procrastinating, Our Beloved, and write Hathor fic.

Has there been fic in 1PP other than Goa'uld type stories? I must admit I can't think of an example.

And that fanfic flamingo is amusing, but also kind of horrifying. I take POV very seriously XD

ETA: Also, I'm impressed that you did a count on all your fics. I can barely keep track of all mine, let alone remember the stats on each one.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

> Has there been fic in 1PP other than Goa'uld type stories?
Jeez, I can't think of any off the top of my head. Although Hathor's Royal We kinda makes me wonder if she & her host are complicit.

Fanfic Flamingo's point about a telepathic character reminds me of a particularly horrifying Mary Sue.

[ivanolix.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't surprise me. I've always wondered about the variations of host/symbiote interaction among the Goa'uld. It can't be 100% Goa'uld=bwahaha evil mindrapist, host=cringing in fear forever. I have a Osiris/Sarah WIP in my folder somewhere, I'm positive...