Thank you! I’m glad you reached the end of my long reply and commented again :) Yes, I’m thrilled I can host a discussion which you, too, find interesting.
Of course, since I’m also thinking about the reception of my fic in particular, I can get sensitive and have to remind myself not to take this too seriously. All right, we agree about the importance of making the reader immediately stop paying attention to the first-person POV, and I understand there is quite enough of a challenge in using it. As I’ve said above, I’d started to think that first-person POV is the easy way of writing slashy scenes fluently, and that there would be new, interesting challenges in third-person POV. Perhaps I’ll choose to tackle those latter ones for a change in any case, when I can enjoy first-person writing in discussions :)
I’m not so happy about the kudos function on AO3. How can you thank for kudos? I’d prefer comments in words, even in one word. (And rambling goes on.) I’ve got kudos from people who don’t seem to be in the HP fandom at all. I could go and check if they’re from fandoms where the canon is a first-person narrative and first-person POV therefore more accepted in fanfic…
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Date: 2019-12-29 01:35 pm (UTC)Of course, since I’m also thinking about the reception of my fic in particular, I can get sensitive and have to remind myself not to take this too seriously. All right, we agree about the importance of making the reader immediately stop paying attention to the first-person POV, and I understand there is quite enough of a challenge in using it. As I’ve said above, I’d started to think that first-person POV is the easy way of writing slashy scenes fluently, and that there would be new, interesting challenges in third-person POV. Perhaps I’ll choose to tackle those latter ones for a change in any case, when I can enjoy first-person writing in discussions :)
I’m not so happy about the kudos function on AO3. How can you thank for kudos? I’d prefer comments in words, even in one word. (And rambling goes on.) I’ve got kudos from people who don’t seem to be in the HP fandom at all. I could go and check if they’re from fandoms where the canon is a first-person narrative and first-person POV therefore more accepted in fanfic…