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 | A matter of perspective  [E] Interactive writers, what perspective do you prefer to write in?  |
| (5.0)    HAPPY WDC ACCOUNT ANNIVERSARY!!! from "Anniversary Reviews"  Celebrating your writing this month with a review. Happy Account Anniversary cheese111 ,Looks like I'm in the minority on this one. I found it was your anniversary at Writing.Com today, and noted only two items in your portfolio here. However, I could not resist this poll as I am notoriously a fan and author of first person fiction and poetry. I can comment on that and some of the reasons why I might be one of only eight in your poll that prefer the limited POV of oneself. The omniscient voice in fiction is one that seems to be captive for an audience. There are few times when the flavor of a first person narrative can hold a reader or viewer, from Holden Caulfield to Ferris Bueller. With the all knowing god-like entity telling us like it is, why don't we question whether that voice could be true? It's just one person playing god to convince readers the events and story are true, which in both aspects can be understood as fault. That's what's great about fiction. To me, the first person is closest to real, not truth. We are all flawed and like the idea of a person misleading a reader in story, sometimes to such great proportions Bueller style that the reader/viewer can question and make their own assumptions about what is really happening. With the limitations of a first person, we can see flaws in the storyteller, see what is true and what is evidently a person on an arc of their own. Hopefully one that actualizes them by story end. Or, a story where they can show how they got to a revelation either mid or end story, to the satisfaction of the audience. Any other POV to tell a story comes with struggle, relating a story through what someone else said? Isn't that second hand and the least trustworthy? It serves for short fiction, I believe. And a writer has to know it will compel a reader. Omniscient to me is in the shadow of flawed truth. As a writer, I cannot put myself in god-like shoes. I can't possibly know every character's motivation, the effect and how it moves the story. I do know what I observe and with many questions why. It could be just my limitations where many others do know or can assume into fact before they write. I'm disappointed by how little I can grasp and how the world can repress and suppress the protagonist, or even the anti-hero, which we know is as unreal as the omniscient one. Anti-heroes usually do what writers want the power to do, some low-level vigilante Batman who had to witness atrocity and overcome it with some more fictionalized ability and ever so lucky events to overcome. History is written by victors. Does that mean fiction is written by losers? I just came up with that. Hmm. Why are we all here writing and/or reading instead of just living life? My back patio is calling. Yet, I haven't cracked open a cold one to celebrate a publication, nor the freedom of taking my brain outside and stare at the rabbits nibbling ever so close to my guarded garden. What choice do I have? First person all the way, life and fiction. I know the difference between the two and can apply my logic to what I envision and be just as good as any omniscient voice. People will pick me up and put me back down, no matter what. This was fun. Thanks for the poll and the incentive to opine upon the reasons for it and to lend my input on the subject. Best to you. Brian WDC Anniversary and Angel Army Reviewer 
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