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Favorite Perspective for Stories?
🕑 Added 2017-06-18 00:39:18 +0000 UTC As I'm finishing up the final endings for Day at the Park Conclusion, a project that ballooned into my most ambitious story yet, I've reflected and noticed that Day at the Park is one of my most popular series based off of Gumroad sales and general reception. It's up there alongside MKBR and Proteus Effect in that regard.Which made me wonder if that's solely due to the setting and adult content, or (or perhaps 'and') if the perspective of the story made it more immersive. For those who don't know, DATP is in 'second person', meaning that 'you' are an active character who is actively taking part in it. On one hand, this can be immersive as you better imagine yourself as the character - on the other, it might be jarring if 'you' are doing things that the real you wouldn't.
Either way, this has made me wonder which perspective do you prefer in my writing? A poll a long time ago indicated that people liked "First person from the perspective of the growing female", but Equality: Dawn and Equality: Genesis weren't particularly popular. Which leads me to wonder if I'm simply not very good at writing the perspective of a female, or if people actually don't like that perspective as much as they thought.
Regardless, let me know in this poll which perspective YOU enjoy the most from MY writing - regardless of what styles you like in others' writings. This will likely influence what kind of writing style I use in future one-offs and new series!
You may select multiple, but please try to choose your favorites amongst these!
Comments
J
I think it really depends on the story
John Rikhter
I honestly don't think perspective matters that much. If the story's good it's good and that's - I think - what's behind the success of MKBR, Proteus and DATP. For example, I like DATP because it's a no-frill full-on fast-paced growth story, without pages and pages spent on establishing lore or characters. That doesn't mean that I don't like stories with lore or deep characters but I just know that when I want 'old-fashioned' supernatural FMG I can just look at DATP and find a story with awesome descriptions, regardless of who's telling the tale.
