Thank you so much for these words of encouragement!
I’ve always enjoyed writing first-person POV, as well as various challenges related to it, also combining POVs, some of them in third-person voice. This year I’ve tried different options, sometimes also changed the grammatical person after considering which is more enjoyable to read. Of course, the reading experience must be different for other readers than myself. The betas (whose services I enjoyed for my five latest fics – fest fics) didn’t complain about the first-person POV (in four of those five), but they weren’t inclined to suggesting any other major changes either, and it didn’t occur to me to ask about this.
My problem now is that I can’t forget how much I used to enjoy also interacting with readers – and to always wish I could have more of that interaction. But even if I’ve now got confirmation that first-person POV is not a go-to for many (most?) potential readers, there’s no guarantee that my fics would be received even if I gave up writing them in the way I believe they can work best for readers, too.
Interaction like this here can help me carry on and simply enjoy my fiction-writing. Thank you again!
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I’ve always enjoyed writing first-person POV, as well as various challenges related to it, also combining POVs, some of them in third-person voice. This year I’ve tried different options, sometimes also changed the grammatical person after considering which is more enjoyable to read. Of course, the reading experience must be different for other readers than myself. The betas (whose services I enjoyed for my five latest fics – fest fics) didn’t complain about the first-person POV (in four of those five), but they weren’t inclined to suggesting any other major changes either, and it didn’t occur to me to ask about this.
My problem now is that I can’t forget how much I used to enjoy also interacting with readers – and to always wish I could have more of that interaction. But even if I’ve now got confirmation that first-person POV is not a go-to for many (most?) potential readers, there’s no guarantee that my fics would be received even if I gave up writing them in the way I believe they can work best for readers, too.
Interaction like this here can help me carry on and simply enjoy my fiction-writing. Thank you again!