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Questions and Concerns

[member="Roshki Belawiiks"]
I think it's all a matter of circumstance in that regard. I've never felt anything from a first person perspective story, but I've also only seen a few. If done well, I'm sure it could be moving. On the other hand, because nearly everyone types in third person, I've experienced more moving pieces from it - and I've written more moving pieces with it. So I'm sure it depends on the writer and which one they're better at doing, as well as their ability to convey emotions through writing.
 
I don't think that it really matters as long as you stay consistent. As long as there aren't major inconsistencies in your tense usage it shouldn't matter too much. People will understand what you are saying as long as you stick with a tense. Sure, you could get fancy as [member="Darth Vitium"] mentioned in her first response, but of course not necessary. As long as you make sure your writing is coherent, it shouldn't matter too much what tense of point of view is being used. Everyone has their own style of writing and to try and dictate that would be silly. Sometimes mixing tenses makes things a little more fluid, but not always. It's really just up to the writer to decide how they want to portray the events that occur.
 
[member="Logan of Little Coruscant"]
I actually mentioned that I wrote in passive verse because that's actually how I talk, write, type, and so on, without actually understanding a difference between regular speech/writing mechanics and that. I didn't learn the difference until I was in college and was told by my professor that it was different than how others type, that being active voice.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/02/

Apparently I have a knack for switching back and forth randomly.
 
[member="Darth Vitium"]
Wow, that's actually really interesting. I didn't realize I did that till I read this over and went to go write a response in a fight. Now that I think about it, I've always written like that and never noticed. The only example in that link that seems off to me is the bicycle one, but other than that I seem to find myself writing in a passive voice as well. I wouldn't say I have a knack for it though, since I often find myself unsure which voice to use to make what I'm writing sound better.
 
Roshki Belawiiks said:
It could be both, to be honest. But, to each his own.
Except first or third-person has precisely nothing to do with how emotionally descriptive something can be. There is nothing inherently more emotional about first-person, especially considering that the vast majority of human thoughts are random, choppy and disorganized. When they hit the page, they undergo the same organizational process that third-person writing does. Any in-depth descriptions that result can also be achieved by writing in third-person.

First-person is merely a stylistic choice, and one that does not bode well with the type of writing done here.



Roshki Belawiiks said:
And who knows, maybe you have a secret desire to read people's diaries, you just don't know it yet.
Unless any of you are secret heads-of-state or part of some famous rock band, I doubt it. I already have facebook to inform me about people's exceptionally interesting lives as Starbucks baristas.
 

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