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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

    Arthur Chu Retweeted Benjanun Sriduangkaew

    I've always been partial to the 2nd-person present-tense mode of storytelling Partly because I imprinted on that playing old-school text adventures and reading Choose Your Own Adventure books And as a result I'm amused by how revolted serious writers seem to be by that combohttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1334468135043256320 …

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    Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun_s
    Every time I see people rant on and on about how stories can only be told in the past tense, it's both literal-minded and completely incoherent. 'Writing in the past tense is powerful because it depicts events as they happened, so no one can say they happened any other way' what? pic.twitter.com/oJFTLEi47I
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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

        Like it's the one mode you get lectured that you MUST NOT DO, because it's so intrusive and presumptuous and mindfucking for the reader, and everyone hates having to slog through a narrative that uses it And I'm like, my whole giant shelf of CYOA books would disagree

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

        If anything all the stuff they say about why 2nd-person present-tense is bad is what I find refreshing about it It's *honest* Yes, the book is directly telling you what to think and what to imagine and whose shoes to put yourself in All books do that, how could they not

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

        That's what I find amusing about it, serious writers being like "No one can take it seriously when the book directly tells you 'You are suddenly overwhelmed with grief' That's so arrogant for an author to say" I'm like, nah, it's awesome, actually, you just gotta get my buy-in

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      5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

        Now that I think about it this is kind of a kink thing isn't it Assuming this position of dominance that would be patently ridiculous if the subject didn't openly agree to it, but once they do it's extremely powerful

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      6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Dec 2020

        There is a certain power in CYOA books, like visual novels, just getting the reader's buy-in by turning you from a reader to a "player", forcing you to accept full identification with a protagonist to engage at all Even when the level of agency (number of choices) is very low

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      1. Audley‏ @AudleyZDarke 3 Dec 2020
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        I think it's really hard to do, but when an author pulls off 2nd person, the results are AMAZING. See: Jemisin's Fifth Season.

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      1. Toby Sinbad Walker‏ @TobySinbad 3 Dec 2020
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        Recommend Complicity by Iain Banks if you’ve not read ‘S about a lefty journalist considering selling out & the killer (whose chapters are 2nd P present) who takes out the ppl his most earnest pieces attack. It’s v 90s? but holds up pretty well imo. Not enough lefty crime books

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      1. Christian Christiansen #BLM ✊🏿 ✊🏽 ✊🏻‏ @Lemuraben 3 Dec 2020
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        See also: "Tomorrow Is Too Far" by Chimamanda Adichie and "Deer Hit" by John Loomis.

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      1. Nate Ross‏ @things_nate 3 Dec 2020
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        Space Hawks FTW

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      1. #UFOsAreMerpeople‏ @NarwhalsWed 3 Dec 2020
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        Present is harder to pull off, though. If the writer isn't up to it and doesn't have a good editor, it's painful (looking at you, Star Wars: Aftermath)

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