MrT wrote:
>First person also seems to lead to a lot of
filler
>dialogue, which I find annoying.
?I'm not sure how this follows, can you expand? Do you mean
because the narrator has to get info from others through
dialogue?
>I know for sure that Westlake's Parker novels would
not
>work in the first person. The character could not
preserve
>his mystique.
I feel the same about Joe Pike and I don't know if "his"
sections of LA Requiem would have worked in 1st person.
Some people say they don't like to read first person because
it contains the word "I" too much but I don't really get
this; if you feel that way, do you refuse to read letters or
email from your friends? :) Personally, as a reader the
repeated "I" sounds a lot more natural to me than the
constant repetition of "he," "she," or the character's name
in 3rd person. As a writer, I always find it a big challenge
not to begin every 3rd person paragraph with a character's
name; I find repeated "I's" a lot easier to deal with!
carrie
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