Author Jean M. Cogdell provides us with a great point of view about writing in the first person. Thank you very much Jean for your valuable opinion.
Contrary to some critics first person point of view does work. I disagree with those critics (snobs) that argue writing in the first person is a sign of an amateur.
Writing in the first person is my preferred method. I know, I know, I’m not burning up the NYT Best Seller list. Well, not yet but give me time.
But there are many famous, and successful authors that have proved those critics wrong.
- Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
- Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
- Herman Melville Moby Dick
- Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
- Cynthia Swanson, The Bookseller
- Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
And those are just a few!
I enjoy writing when writing in the first person more than third person and I…
View original post 370 more words
Advertisements
Writing in the first person is truly a wondrous experience. Keeping in mind that you as the writer know where things are going, but keeping the character whose point of view you’re writing from, does not know everything can be pretty exhilarating.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is truly something to think about, Allan. Thank you very much for sharing your point of view on this. 🙂
LikeLike