At 02:12 PM 5/27/02 +0100, you wrote:
> that's me saying
>no POV is easier/harder to write. When you're writing
first person it all
>depends on how deep inside your narrators's head you
want to go. Do you
>want him
>to tell the story? Or do you want him to plumb his
inner dark depths and
>tear at
>the very fabric of his soul, etc etc?
I've just attended a weekend festival of and about Jewish
writers. Mostly local authors, but during a session about
poetry and psychopathology, led by a Toronto psychiatrist who
himself creates verse in the third person, it was suggested
that poets who have committed suicide wrote mostly in the
first person. The famous ones anyway, so fame doesn't seem to
have tested-out as therapy for depression. The good doctor
recommended drugs or psychoanalysis as treatment for those
dark spells, while implying that the former (prescription
medications of course, not the sort ingested on sidewalks and
in washroom stalls, the seeking of which he categorized as
counter-productive behaviour) could adversely affect writing
talent. Or not. Either he was noncommittal or I was nodding
off. Strangely, he did not mention as an antidote, the
writing of crime fiction in the third person.
Kerry
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