On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

"Robyn, Duke of Amber" <yu120475@YorkU.CA> wrote:

Another possible thing to do is (shudder) write in first person....which
is pretty much like juggling eggs full of nitro but could be fun. I've
always wanted to really SEE inside one of the KS' heads..

Like you seem to be implying, I've also heard that writing in the 1st person
is *very* difficult because it's so easy to screw up technically -- since
the story is in the 1st person, you cannot let the reader know anything the
POV character doesn't know, you can't get into the heads of the other
characters, stuff like that.  I would think that it would also be difficult
to try it with a character that many people know well already, like one of
the KS or a Ranma or SM character.

That said, it would also be interesting for someone to try it and see how it
turns out :)

Speaking from experience (shameless plug - "Kurobara"), it is difficult - 
not because of the technical slip-ups, but because of the state you must 
put yourself into when writing.  You must try to see from the character's 
point of view as much as possible, getting into their head, feeling what 
they feel.  With some characters, this is easy - doing that little bit of 
first person Ranma with "A Man I'll Never Be" was extremely natural for 
me - and, at the time, was almost a necessity.  With others, however, 
like Kodachi in "Kurobara", it was sometimes easy, sometimes 
near-impossible.  

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"He's so beautiful when he's unconscious."
-Kodachi Kuno, "Kurobara"
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