Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group discussion

I like paperback books. I like to have a book in my hands, but right now I can only do ebooks. I borrow them from the library or download them from my Amazon's account.

I'm trying to do more reading and I like to find new authors to me. I have been looking for books to read, but so many of them that I was interested in turned out to be written in first person and I couldn't read them. Some books, I've found out they were written in first person by reading their description and some books I had to find out after borrowing them or downloading them that they were written in first person and I've quickly returned the book or deleted the download, depending on how I've gotten the book.

I have been reading romance books for over 30 years and I do not recall authors writing romance books in first person. All the books that I've read were written in third person, the way I like romance books to be written in.

I wished that authors wouldn't write romance books in first person. They would never have me as a fan.

I think it's maybe the writer's preference, maybe they write better in first person. It's easier when writing in first person because you can always put yourself in the protagonists shoes, you imagine the scene from their perspective. If you are writing in third person it's as if you are only an observer to the situation or scenario, a witness to the crime - a fly on the wall.

Everyone has so many things they like when it comes to their reading material from the style of writing to the point of view it's written in, and I think that's great. It means every writer and reader out there will always be able to find something they like because there is so much variety!

Hopefully people will give you some suggestions here of books they might have read or written in third person : )

As a writer, I am not a witness to what is going on in my story. I'm the storyteller.

I agree. I don’t like the first person narrative either. It’ takes a special skill to get it right.

Arch wrote: "As a writer, I am not a witness to what is going on in my story. I'm the storyteller."

Yes, as we all are.

I merely meant that writing from a third person perspective is different from first person, and that there may be many factors as to why that is the case. I didn't mean to offend you with my thoughts on the subject : )

@Sarah I like reading both 3rd person and 1st. But I've noticed when I write I tend to go with 1st person, and when I write 3rd person I tend to slip back into 1st. It's weird.

@S08H For me it feels like the opposite.

Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "@Sarah I like reading both 3rd person and 1st. But I've noticed when I write I tend to go with 1st person, and when I write 3rd person I tend to slip back into 1st. It's weird.

@S08H For me it fe..."

lol.......that's exactly what happens to me! I slip back into 1st, so I figured that's just how I prefer to write : )

Sarah wrote: "Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "@Sarah I like reading both 3rd person and 1st. But I've noticed when I write I tend to go with 1st person, and when I write 3rd person I tend to slip back into 1st. It..."

I've read interviews by authors who right amazing 3rd person who say they find themselves slipping back into 1st person.

Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "@Sarah I like reading both 3rd person and 1st. But I've noticed when I write I tend to go with 1st person, and when I write 3rd person I tend to slip bac..."

I wish I could write in both, but it just doesn't feel right for me. I enjoy reading books in both perspective though, when it comes to reading I don't have a preference.

I've just seen on your GR profile that you're on My Drama List! I love that place honestly, I haven't ventured into K-Drama's yet apart from Empress Ki (Amazing) I've been consuming C-Dramas first like Ashes of Love, Eternal Love, The King's Woman etc........Do you cry your eyes out at these drama's or what!? The drama's take up so much time because there are 70+ episodes that are an hour long, but I don't regret a second of any of them : )

@Sarah I do love reading both.

I haven't been on MDL for so long, or watching dramas! I miss them. There are some great K-dramas you should check out. Ah, those C-dramas. I have really enjoyed them. Oh, yeah. It's a sign of a great drama that can make you bawl your eyes out. I love it when you can get that emotionally invested!! It's odd I've rarely found a draggy C-drama despite the length of them. Oh, yeah. It's a

Sarah wrote: "Arch wrote: "As a writer, I am not a witness to what is going on in my story. I'm the storyteller."

Yes, as we all are.

I merely meant that writing from a third person perspective is different fr..."

You didn't offend me.

Shera (Book Whispers) wrote: "@Sarah I do love reading both.

I haven't been on MDL for so long, or watching dramas! I miss them. There are some great K-dramas you should check out. Ah, those C-dramas. I have really enjoyed th..."

I haven't been on in months either, you really need to make sure you have the time to invest in a drama of that length because once I start I can't stop lol

Nice meeting you : )

Only autobiographies should be written in first person (and even those contain observations written in the 3rd person). I detest first person fiction narratives and stay way clear off them. The few I started reading I abandoned after a few pages because the first person narrative was so deafening, so uninteresting and the writing so lazy I simply could not waste time turning the pages. Even more I detest romances where you have his and hers first person narratives. It is like being trapped in two separate glass echo chambers that face each other but without substantial and passionate connection living in their respective heads. Truly revolting style that should be binned immediately.

@Emma Exactly how I feel!

I think one of the main reasons is that popular authors write it in first person. So authors like me take that as what most readers like and go with the flow.

I've been writing in first person for so long I can't even imagine myself writing something a bit more different, even though I know I could do it.

I started my first novel in first person. Halfway through, I realized so much had to happen in the suspense element that the narrator can't know, I changed it to third. Boy was that a bitch of an edit! Been very happy with third person ever since! I prefer it in the romances I read as well.

I've been finding it a lot harder to find good books written in third person when it comes to the romance section (that are free books, because of lack of funds on my end and the blurbs usually lies about the pov). I can write in both third amd first, but I really want to focus on third because I enjoy it more, but I'm having trouble finding good books that vatches my interest which are written in third point of view.

I mean I understand why they are written in first. First point allows writers to really get into their character's mind and bypasses the lovely description and tricks that comes with writing in third to show a character's feelings. Plus, it allows a reader to connect easier. I just don't really want all books written in first.

Unless you are Jean Jacques Rousseau writing your 'Confessions' kindly refrain from ever writing in the first person. As a reader I avoid romances written in the first person like the plague, for the characters are never profound enough (they may be interesting, and if the writer is good they will be, but still could not by any stretch of aesthetic judgment be judged to be profound) to sustain such a hermetic "I'-'voice' . The whole thing feels like a sustained assault on a reader's ears . There is also something infantilising about this first person narrative trend in romance writing as well. The books read more like an adolescent's entries in a diary. It may be interesting to the adolescent but it is certainly not interesting to readers like me.
Third person narratives allow a space in which the 'I' voice speaks and IS RECEIVED (a space that mediates the wholly narcissistic 'I' of the character and the externality of the reader), and that is how MEANING is made. You need that space of reception, which the third person narration best outlines, in order to turn what the 'I' spouts into some piece of meaning. The constant hammering of the reader with a narcissistic 'I', and in Romancia the problem of this is much more heightened since the 'I' often comes off as banal and trite, should be avoided at all costs, that is, if writers in the genre, however lowly it is perceived to be, are interested in WRITING as such and not simply in having a product to sell on Amazon.

Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "I've been finding it a lot harder to find good books written in third person when it comes to the romance section (that are free books, because of lack of funds on my end and the blurbs usually lie..."

I don’t pay full price for a book. I don’t even buy ebooks. I go for the free ones. I prefer paperback books over hardbacks. The highest, I’ve ever paid for a paperback book was 50 cents. When I have first started buying paperback books, it was at a library in 1998 and they were 10 for a $1.00, years later, they’ve jumped to 5 for $1.00 and eventually got up to 50 cents each. Well, the larger ones went up to $1.00.

I shop thrifts stores for books too. I have found some for 25 cents, 3/$1.00, 4/$1.00 and even 50 cents.

Where I live now, it depends which library you go to. You can get all size paperbacks for 25 cents, 3/$1.00, 5/$1.00. Sometimes, they will have sales, where you get them 10/$1.00. Hardbacks are either 50 cents or $1.00.

I also use Hoopla and Overdrive to check out ebooks.

Are you a reader or writer/author, Arch?

Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "Are you a reader or writer/author, Arch?"

I am a reader and writer. I am not an author.

Oh ok. I was going to ask how you keep up with knowledge on the newest bestsellers. I use writer and author interchangeably.

Iesha (In east shade house at...) wrote: "Oh ok. I was going to ask how you keep up with knowledge on the newest bestsellers. I use writer and author interchangeably."

I don’t look for bestsellers’ book. I look for genre or theme I like reading about.

I see a writer and author as being different, although an author is a person who writes. I write for fun. I also write for myself. It is nothing for me to write a story, just for me to read. I am not a good writer, but I do love telling a story.