Oh, Plei. Acceptable Buffy/Xander (please excuse my shudder) and absolutely marvelous other fic.

Nice, Am. Yummy Mal.

Thanks, SA.

I'm opinion-fishing.

What are your (all y'all) thoughts on having a character narrate a story (specifically fan fic)?

Does it get too confusing when more than one character narrates? Does it feel too contrived?

I've read some original fiction (can't think of one off of the top of my head now that I've brought it up) that's used more than one character as narrator. It seems to me I've liked it. Certainly, I've liked original ficiton narrated by the protagonist.

Using first person can work really well; having a character give a narration that's outside the story, from the 'future', for example, can also work well.

It depends a lot on the details of what you're doing and how well you do it. It needn't feel contrived, depending which method you pick exactly (don't have someone narrate a story by writing in their diary if it's canon that they hate writing); and even using more than one narrator needn't be confusing if you mark changes clearly and limit yourself a bit.

Well, that's what I think, anyway. I love writing in first person and using narration in various different ways.

What are your (all y'all) thoughts on having a character narrate a story (specifically fan fic)?

Does it get too confusing when more than one character narrates? Does it feel too contrived?

By narrate, do you mean that you're telling the story in first person? I don't have a problem with it, and I don't have a problem with multiple characters being used, because if it's done right, the character voices are sufficiently different that there's not any kind of confusion. A first-person Buffy POV is significantly different from a Xander POV, and even more different from a Giles POV.

By narrate, do you mean that you're telling the story in first person?

Yes, I mean telling the story, but in cases where the character is describing another character, her pov would be limited, not omniscient.

I've gotten completely stuck on my mega fic. I was using a 3rd person, ltd pov, but it's limiting me. I think I want each (main) character to tell his own bits of the story.

Thanks - Am-Chau and Dana.

I do a lot of 3rd person limited POV swapping. Each section (and sometimes they overlap, so I get the same scene or parts of from a different POV) with a different narrator/voice.

Absolution (my large-for-me fic) had five different character POVs.

I'll probably end up with 5. I know I'll at least end up with 3.

I distinctly remember just GLOWERING at Angel because he wanted to narrate. I was all like, "Hairloaf? Excuse me? What makes you think you get to say anything, fucko?"

But he insisted.

Finally caught up. I really enjoyed the Lilah/Buffy and the Mal/Simon. Of course, I want more V!Giles.