First Person POV - Blog Posts

I realise now why I don't like reading first person POV fanfics.

Nobody ever writes them correctly. Instead of writing with the personality of the character, the character ends up sounding so detached from the events. It's like they're the faceless narrator recording the events and then jump in to interact when it's their turn to talk.

Just saw someone try to write Danny in the first person POV. The writing was fine, but the POV wasn't POVing.

Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is an excellent example of a successful first person POV.

I remember reading the book for the first time at 13. I've never read a book with a first person POV until then and for a while I wrote a lot of my stories with that POV.

I suck at writing first person POV these days. Unfortunately knowing why I suck doesn't help me suck any less 🥲

Don’t worry, he’ll catch you when you fall.

A few things about my book, consider that's it just the first draft, before any kind of rewrite and rework :

- 80333 words

- written in first person (MC's a woman, she is probably not really smart)

- fantasy, comedy

- slow burn (mutual pining, when I say slow I mean it, romance scares me)

- orange cat behaviour (MC)

- Worldbuilding, foreshadowing is my passion

I don't want to say too much

I am so honoured!!! Thank you so much for writing a beautiful, insightful analysis of my story's themes and recommending it.

One of the best and most heartbreaking SNS stories (here) was updated tonight and completed. It offers one consideration of how Konoha was embroiled in a war caused by its own contradictions and still failed to

1) stop training child soldiers

2) acknowledge the Uchiha, most particularly Itachi, and what the village did to them

3) bring the main house of the Hyuuga to accountability for the caged bird seals

4) create a future for its two heroes that did not involve bad hair, bad parenting, flat affect, and loveless straight marriages.

We all know Konoha is built upon contradictions. And we all know that the only way for it to survive those contradictions was to create hypocritical and morally ambiguous defenders of its shinobi (looking at you, Kakashi). Katie Madison in this story shows just how much of a mind-fuck it would actually take for the village to maintain so many of its old ways in the wake of the war.