Comments on: Actually writing http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/ Author of Sizzling Hot Romance Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:49:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Cat Marsters http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9189 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:07:29 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9189 I love writing in first person, but I know it's not great for romance, so I try to limit it. It is great for chick-lit though, so I let rip then ;) As for reading, I've never really been fussed either way. It does make for a very different story though, when only one person is telling it. I have read a few books where there have been alternating first person narratives, and they've been okay, but they're the exception not the rule. I find the book itself tends to dictate its narrative. Sometimes I'm trying to write in third, and it's just not working--I'll hear the main character narrating it inside my head. But then that might just be me hearing voices... I love writing in first person, but I know it’s not great for romance, so I try to limit it. It is great for chick-lit though, so I let rip then ;)

As for reading, I’ve never really been fussed either way. It does make for a very different story though, when only one person is telling it. I have read a few books where there have been alternating first person narratives, and they’ve been okay, but they’re the exception not the rule.

I find the book itself tends to dictate its narrative. Sometimes I’m trying to write in third, and it’s just not working–I’ll hear the main character narrating it inside my head.

But then that might just be me hearing voices…

]]> by: Keziah Hill http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9167 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:57:37 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9167 I've written in 1st and 3rd and I think my best work has been in 1st. I like the immediacy of it. What I hate is present tense, which I think a lot of newbie erotica writers use a lot. "You touched my skin and I felt a thousand fireworks" that kind of thing. I've never seen the point of a story where the protagonist is telling another character what's happening when the other character is there with them. I’ve written in 1st and 3rd and I think my best work has been in 1st. I like the immediacy of it. What I hate is present tense, which I think a lot of newbie erotica writers use a lot. “You touched my skin and I felt a thousand fireworks” that kind of thing. I’ve never seen the point of a story where the protagonist is telling another character what’s happening when the other character is there with them.

]]> by: Karen http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9166 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:39:14 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9166 I've never written in 1st person but I'd like to try. I've read some great 1st person books but they're hard to pull off. I like 3rd person cos I like to know what's going on in her AND his head. But if it's done right I enjoy a 1st person read... :) I’ve never written in 1st person but I’d like to try. I’ve read some great 1st person books but they’re hard to pull off. I like 3rd person cos I like to know what’s going on in her AND his head. But if it’s done right I enjoy a 1st person read…

:)

]]> by: Robin L. Rotham http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9164 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:15:04 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2007/03/23/581/#comment-9164 Make that, one of my pet <i>peeves.</i> (blushing)