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Anybody ever consider writing something here in the second person? I thing that would be a very interesting read.
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There are plenty of second person stories here and, by and large, they're awful.

One of the mantras of creative writing is "show, don't tell". Second person stories are all tell and no show.
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Why not read some stories instead

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They seem to bore me, for the most part. Just don't find that style exciting.
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They seem to bore me, for the most part. Just don't find that style exciting.


That's because they tell you how you're meant to think and feel: no challenge, no imagination, no discovery, no excitement
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Why not read some stories instead

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That's because they tell you how you're meant to think and feel: no challenge, no imagination, no discovery, no excitement


I read a novella that was 2nd person and it was bizarre. "You are doing this, you are feeling that" - and I felt nothing but like a pervert. LOL - and it wasn't even erotica.

A bizarre approach to writing. It's useful for other things, but didn't thrill me regarding fiction. "How to articles" and the like are written this way and it makes sense because I am seeking out that information.
I tried writing second person - turn out to be trash - most of the second person stories I've read are that way, it just doesn't click right

I stick with either first or third - most of my non-erotic is first - my multi-chapter one here (2nd chapter almost ready for final edit) is third with my short-story being first
SAce, it's not, I say again, not, nice to tease folks, especially writers, about second person. ;) I believe Dancing Doll posted a 2nd person story that was more than tolerable, but not being in her class as a writer I avoid either reading or writing second person and encourage all to avoid, avoid, avoid.

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You're excited. The thrilling energy of it buzzes over you're skin. The hand on the clock ticks by - another long, slow, fat second. You're not sure if you can take any more of this waiting. You have no choice, though.

He walks toward you, loose change jingling in his pocket, hand cuffs hanging from his hand. The dark metal of the cuffs glints in the the light, ominously.

- I see why it's fun for authors, but if your a reader it's insufferable.
I think that's good advice, Rumple. If you can't outdo Dancing_Doll's Hard Candy, please spare the rest of us.

I think the success of her attempt is in the way she keeps it to the "I" and "you" characters. She lets us inside the mind of her first person, but limits her description of the second person to only what her "I" character can observe.

DamonX did the same with Wedding Day, although not quite as seamlessly. Reading both stories, told from different perspectives, I found that I was able to put myself in the place of Doll's "you", like she was telling her story to me, and Damon's "I", like I was reliving it.

Unlike the brief and already tortured example Metilda posted. Don't tell me how to feel, man!
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I think that's good advice, Rumple. If you can't outdo Dancing_Doll's Hard Candy, please spare the rest of us.

I think the success of her attempt is in the way she keeps it to the "I" and "you" characters. She lets us inside the mind of her first person, but limits her description of the second person to only what her "I" character can observe.

DamonX did the same with Wedding Day, although not quite as seamlessly. Reading both stories, told from different perspectives, I found that I was able to put myself in the place of Doll's "you", like she was telling her story to me, and Damon's "I", like I was reliving it.

Unlike the brief and already tortured example Metilda posted. Don't tell me how to feel, man!


Yes. I rad that story of hers and see that there's a significant difference between her approach and the novella I read months ago. It's a fine craft.