Why 1st person is so popular?

[Anonymous No.12434899]

>Go to local bookshop
>Pick up random book
>Horribly written 1st person perspective prose
>Yuck!
>Pick up another book
>Same thing
>Repeat ad nausea

I never noticed it before but what's the deal with modern writers writing almost exclusively in the 1st person perspective?

[Anonymous No.12434908]

>>12434899

>he writes his 4chan posts in 1st person

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.12434916]

>A woman walks into the store and is disgusted by the amount of 1st person novels she sees

Fixed

[Anonymous No.12434950]

>>12434908
>he thinks green text stories are written in 3rd person

[Anonymous No.12436213]

>>12434899
Plagiarists of Celine and his "I", read his books, he talks about it at length

[Anonymous No.12436305]

>>12436213
Should I write my book in first or third?

[Anonymous No.12436316]

>>12436305
Write it in first, second, and third, constantly varying the protagonist chapter by chapter, page by page, even line by line. The protagonist may change in the middle of a dialogue and the audience will never even know. That is the untapped power of perspective to which you have been given privileged access.

[Anonymous No.12436324]

>>12436305
you should write it in second person

[Anonymous No.12436382]

>>12436324
>a whole book of greentext
Would you read it?

[Anonymous No.12437664]

>>12434899
It's trendy. I saw a writer I was acquainted with bashing 3rd person past tense on her twitter a while back. I believe her implication was that such writing is inherently uninspired.

[Anonymous No.12437682]

>>12437664
How could it be more uninspired to take account of differing perspectives and events in the world than just narrating through the perspective of your, more often than not, self-insert character?

[Anonymous No.12437683]

>>12436382
DFW's second person short story in BIwHM is a great read.

[Anonymous No.12437897]

>>12437664
>on her twitter
>her twitter
>her
opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.12438158]

It's easy
I often find myself narrating what I do in my mind

[Anonymous No.12438168]

>>12434899
>Repeat ad nausea
If you repeated "cum Nausea" instead of "ad nausea" you might change your mind :^)

[Anonymous No.12438344]

>>12437682
I assume it's due to a good portion of 'muh dead white men' writing in third past, whereas first present is "hip" and "cool" and "modern", never mind all those historically significant female or non-Anglo authors who have also written in third past because that would mean acknowledging that writing styles tend to move in trends rather than by arbitrary ethnic or gender lines.

Or to put it another way: people thinking they're being counter culture when really they lack an awareness of broader literary trends and fail to understand that things like person and tense are merely devices which can be used to augment a story to achieve different narrative effects.