2/ what's good for the goose is not good for the best SF authorhttps://twitter.com/CameronWood65/status/1459972148504797192 …
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k but Starship Troopers and The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
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Flashman, much of the Hyperion books…
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There's a time & place for each, but you need a really good reason to go first. Much better to default to third person most of the time.
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Some of my favourite books are first person. That said, they aren't necessarily*good* books. Entertainment value =/= craft.
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Just yesterday, I did a breakdown for myself of how many PoV characters you have in Aristillus 1 (30!), how many chapters each character has (Fig 1) and when their first chapter is (Fig 2).pic.twitter.com/af21prevjE
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I had anticipated the ~exponential decay on Fig 1. I was a surprised at the linear-ish shape of Fig 2. Many of the 1-PoV-scene characters surprised me in retrospect. (Jim gets PoV in Ch.1, not Linda?)
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Hmmm, just realized first person only seems to work well in Urban Fantasy. That's just speaking from the limits of my reading range but still.
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It's because most of it is taking after detective novels. Works good for mysteries, which lots of them (not just Dresden) are.
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