I fear that writing in general is full of snowflakes, or flakes for short.

I am trying to write about myself for my website. I would rather be boiled in oil than write about how I'm such a special snowflake that you should pay me a lot of money to do work for you.

but I slip into it more often than not when I practice freewriting. I wonder why that is.

Maybe it's how you think or how you verbally tell stories?

Yeah, speculative fiction is full of snowflakes.

This made me snort Diet Coke up my nose.

I fear that writing in general is full of snowflakes, or flakes for short.

BWAH! Hey, I resemble that remark! *g*

I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.

I find it easier to write first person than third, and I like stories written that way if they work.

My preferred poison is First Person, past tense, but it's such a huge no-no in romance that I'm relearning how to write in Third, which I avoided for years because of all the academic training. My dialogue was great, but the narrative sounded like a damned textbook. Feh. With any luck, I've gotten better at that.

I like first person past tense! I think you're right about the academic poison. My third person dialogue sucks ass.

First person in the continuing present drives me nuts.

"I am going to the door. The rats hiss. They are eating me. I am bleeding on this paper."

I can't figure out how to write in first person present, I mean I can't imagine the context in which it would make narrative sense.

Maybe in a mystery, Burrell? But then I don't read many mysteries so what the hell do I know?

It was a fairly common convention in chick lit when the genre was a hot commodity, probably a 50-40-10 split between first person past, first present, and third past.

I very rarely liked any books written in first present, to the point where even if the story sounded good, I rarely bought it. It was just too... I don't know, uncomfortable to read.