/lit/ - Literature

I write exclusively in first person present, but I usually hate it in the writing of others. When most people write in the schema, it's pretty invariably either that very neophytic, random, artless kind of manic pixie stream-of-consciousness OR it's the My Diary Desu style of artlessly inoffensive, overly-colloquial prose that's like your Hella Tight Bro From Way Back When telling you about his thoughts on the 4th dimension, beer keg parties, and that one time he showed up late to his philosophy 101 course.

>>20621724
It's like someone grabbing your lapel and shouting at you instead of just speaking in a civilized fashion.

It's a cheap and meretricious attempt to achieve immediacy. Literature can never be as viscerally impactful as music or cinema. Pictures and sounds affect the human brain at a much lower level than language does. That, as Cormac would say, is the way the world is. That way, and not some other way.

I forced myself to write it but I still hate it, probably just because it’s hard for me to write. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong. It’s hard for the character to be introspective but good if you want to be some sort of unreliable narrator. The only good examples I can think of are Fight Club or American Psycho, at the risk of sounding like a meme.

>>20621724
better than second person present

>>20621724
/lit/ should invent a new narrative mode:

First Person Absent.

(Although come to think of it, maybe Faulkner got there first with The Sound And The Fury. Caddy is the main character even though she never speaks to us and is hardly ever there.)

>>20621724
>What's so bad about it?
There is no I.

I am a dark and stormy night.
They flap their meat at one another.
I remain the night.

>>20621724
It sounds weak and pompous.

>>20621724
The real question is why do YA writers use it

>>20623578
YA is about projecting as the character and first person achieves this with greater ease by overwriting the internal monologue of the average YA reader with that of the character.

It's a form of hypnosis.

>>20621724
Just a bit off-putting at first, but once you start reading Call of the Crocodile present tense makes sense

range murata is a tier 1 2D artist

>>20621724
Those who hate first-person present tense hate it because it reminds them of themselves and the hopelessness of their current situation.

>>20622725
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>20623641
>draws pedoshit
Ofc
>https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=6885100&tags=murata_range+