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"One Step Forward, etc."
 
   Then there's the moment where you're 36K into a story and realize it should be in the first person.

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  RE: One Step Forward, etc. discord Mar-31-14 1
  RE: One Step Forward, etc. TheOtherSean Mar-31-14 2
  RE: One Step Forward, etc. Mercutio Mar-31-14 3
     RE: One Step Forward, etc. Gryphonadmin Mar-31-14 4
         RE: One Step Forward, etc. twipper Apr-01-14 5

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12 posts		 Mar-31-14, 06:03 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: One Step Forward, etc."
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   D:

been there, done that, gryph. :(


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2. "RE: One Step Forward, etc."
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   >Then there's the moment where you're 36K into a story and realize it
>should be in the first person.
>
>--G.

It's things like that which make me long for advancements in computational linguistics so you can just choose a "story refactoring" like you can with source code. Imagine being able to easily change tense, point-of-view, reliably adjust character details (name/sex/nationality/etc.) or timeline with just a few simple commands.

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The Other Sean - Don't accept substitutes!
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Mercutio
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3. "RE: One Step Forward, etc."
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   This intrigues me, as you haven't done a lot of first-person work in the past. There's been plenty of third-person limited, but I'm hard pressed to think of much full-on, Chronicles of Amber style first person.

-Merc
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Gryphonadmin
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4. "RE: One Step Forward, etc."
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   >This intrigues me, as you haven't done a lot of first-person work in
>the past. There's been plenty of third-person limited, but I'm hard
>pressed to think of much full-on, Chronicles of Amber style first
>person.

Off the top of my head, there's And So They Met, Blades, The Vulcan Heart, and, uh, all of Warrior's Legacy. The percentage is low, I grant you, but it's not completely alien territory.

--G.
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5. "RE: One Step Forward, etc."
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   As a vaguely related aside, 'Blades' is for me one of the best constructed stories published here, easily in the top five, if not one or two. And WL is still possibly my favorite storyline here, given its shear 'Nightside'esque over-the-topness.

Well-written 1st person fiction is not easy to come by, so I take any that I find. :)

Brian


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