META FANFIC: Fandom Grammar answered my question!

[campylobacter]

Because I'm perverse and like to write fanfic in 1st person, there are some situations when I try little narrative tricks that amuse me, but aren't standard enough for grammar and punctuation manuals to address.

I'd asked about how to interrupt dialog with INTERNAL DIALOG over at fandom_grammar and they finally answered! And used most of the dialog I provided, from Firefly, The X-Files, and Stargate SG-1. :-D

If you haven't discovered fandom_grammar, give it a shot! The community is friendly, nerdy, scholarly, and covers lots of fandoms.

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[misshapenmuse.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to write in first person narrative. I do good to write in third person narrative let alone anything else. Cool community, though.

To the pic: Sadly, Dr. Daniel Jackson isn't the only one who gets excited about research. Sometime I wish this bug had bitten me when I was high school, I would have been a better student. :D

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

The trick to writing in 1st person is not worrying about capturing the immediacy, because it's exactly the voice I use when commenting in LJ, writing email, and chat!

Once I got over that, it made me more confident (although I'm interested in what readers think about whether I'm successful) in writing 1st person. It also prevents my BIGGEST PET PEEVE:

Head-hopping (http://research-writing-techniques.suite101.com/article.cfm/headhopping).

OMG, I hate head hopping (http://fictiongroupie.blogspot.com/2010/02/head-hopping-how-to-make-your-reader.html).

Head hopping (http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=47905) is the Number 1 reason I'll stop reading a book I've bought. I'm more forgiving when I see it in fanfic, but I always refrain from pointing it out when I comment because I get so pissy when talking about it. :-D