I don't even know if I've read second person. The concept itself is confusing me.
ita - I agree that 3rd person omniscient is easiest, but sometimes I run into telling too much, rather than showing when I use it. My characters are always talky!meat as it is. But then the narrator becomes the talkiest meat of all talky meats. I'm hoping that for this story, the first person might help me limit exposition to when it's needed. It's not that fp is easier per se, but the device serves as a constant reminder.
Third person omnisonedayIwilllearntospellthisent
Here's how I remember how to spell omniscient. Omni is all and we know the narrator in this person is all knowing. For the knowing part, we have science, conscience... which gives us scient. Omni-sci-ent - omniscient.
melymbrosia writes excellent second person. So does Suela.
Holli wrote that wonderful one that was recced all over LJ about a month ago.
And thinking of melymbrosia and Suela, somehow Farscape seems to lend itself well to 2nd person POV.
What Elena wrote maybe thirty posts ago is second person.
Some second person Buffy fic:
mely's Truly and Forever
Sheila's Light Walks
Holli's Four Ghosts
Some other fandom second person:
Suela's The Money Changer's Tale (Farscape, SPOILERS through Season 3.)
Elizabeth's _________ (Alias)
Elizabeth's You Always Wanted (Roswell)
mely's What Flesh Felt (X-Files)
And because it's Friday, and I am self-indulgent, my In Step (Alias) and Remembering the Gaze (Farscape).
What Elena wrote maybe thirty posts ago is second person.
My post was a delayed cross post. Elena was so successful of making me Joyce (making Spike - whee) that I forgot it was second person.
I'm trying to think of happy 2nd person I've liked (note: I haven't gone to Dana's recs). For some reason, I can better handle being led into sadness.
But mostly, it's like amych said -- it puts me in a place to second guess the responses. "I felt what? I don't think so." As opposed to being told someone else experienced them, which is fine by me.
Connie, I just read "Touch." Which I maybe shouldn't have read at work. Hot hot stuff, woman!
More, please?
Suela's The Money Changer's Tale (Farscape, SPOILERS through Season 3.)
That's the second FS fic I ever read, and I lovelovelove it. It came right after Mosca's John/Aeryn have sex fic.
Warning, this is a bad morning, so if I sound terse, apologies in advance.
With respect to any individual tastes, I have to say that I've written both first and second, and frankly? Second person is much easier and allows for a lot of laziness in my work. First person is much more difficult, period.
Why? Because it takes about a bazillion times as much courage than simply playing God in the Machine and moving other peoples' lives around a landscape. In first person - which I write far less frequently, for this very reason - you have to take a leap of faith, and show some genuine courage. It isn't arrogance, it's bravery, period. You have to drape that character around yourself like a second skina nd shed your own, if you're doing it properly. If that character gets hurt? So do you. In second person, you're the big cahuna, the pain or loss or humiliation or sex is going to be at a remove of at least one level. First person? It's you.
So, anyway.
{{{{deb}}}} for the bad morning. But do you mean third person (he said...) instead of second (you said...)? I'm a mite confused.
