However, 1) this is supposed to be a learning-project, which leans towards practicing something new, and 2) I rather want the POV character to be a reader-proxy.
On the occasions you've written first person, I've noticed it always seems to have the same voice, the same word use, cadence and way of narrating. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's something to be aware of - especially if you want to use this project to push yourself/learn new skills. You've shown that you can capture different character voices when doing third-person, internal thoughts and dialogue, so I'm pretty sure you can do first-person with unique character voices if you're thinking about it.
Well, it really depends on what you're doing! From the abundance of character profiles, I assumed there would be more than one POV character, so this question rather surprised me. (Not that you can't do more than one first-person narrator, but I think two would be the absolute limit, and that's way harder than doing one.) But if you only plan to have one POV character and that person is more of a reader proxy, then I agree that first is the way to go.
How continuous is this to be, though? To include several different stories? Many episodes? You could have some episodes played twice (or ?more?), from different characters' POV; not necessarily the whole chapter retold, but e.g. an encounter (possibly a lengthy one) that includes chars A and B, told as part of an A-view chapter and also of a B-view chapter, with each of those chapters also including material that the other one didn't experience. (Sorry, am I too unclear there?)
I've also read a story with first-person-plural POV, switching between different members of a group struggling to survive. Some of the chapters showed the death of the narrator of a previous chapter. It worked well there, and it kept the reader in suspense along with the characters: "Who's going to make it to our destination?"
And I've seen a few stories in second person perspective. This is of limited utility, but very striking when appropriate.
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Date: 2014-06-06 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-06 07:08 pm (UTC)However, 1) this is supposed to be a learning-project, which leans towards practicing something new, and 2) I rather want the POV character to be a reader-proxy.
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Date: 2014-06-06 07:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-08 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-08 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-09 01:15 am (UTC)On the occasions you've written first person, I've noticed it always seems to have the same voice, the same word use, cadence and way of narrating. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's something to be aware of - especially if you want to use this project to push yourself/learn new skills. You've shown that you can capture different character voices when doing third-person, internal thoughts and dialogue, so I'm pretty sure you can do first-person with unique character voices if you're thinking about it.
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Date: 2014-06-09 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-07 03:04 am (UTC)person, and number too!
Date: 2014-06-07 05:35 pm (UTC)I've also read a story with first-person-plural POV, switching between different members of a group struggling to survive. Some of the chapters showed the death of the narrator of a previous chapter. It worked well there, and it kept the reader in suspense along with the characters: "Who's going to make it to our destination?"
And I've seen a few stories in second person perspective. This is of limited utility, but very striking when appropriate.
Re: person, and number too!
Date: 2014-06-07 09:54 pm (UTC)Re: person, and number too!
Date: 2014-06-08 12:57 am (UTC):-( Sorry, no.
Re: person, and number too!
Date: 2014-06-08 08:25 pm (UTC)These all sound fun for experimental cases.
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